Donald A. Petkus's Page

Hometown:

Gary, Indiana

Relationship Status:

Single

About Me:

Retired Mycroftian bureaucrat. Widower. University lecturer at Indiana University and one of the world's oldest doctoral students. Relatively active member of the Illustrious Clients of Indianapolis. Lover of 1950s B-science fiction films and well done parodies like Lost Skeleton of Cadavera.

Website:

http:////www.illustriousclients.org/index.php

Favorite Books:

In Sherlockian scholarship terms, probably Stashower's ACD biography and the recent Life in Letters book.
From the Canon, HOUN and SIGN take precedence over the other novellas and the short story collections.
Right now, (11/2008) I', reading Spies' Wives, a collection of vignettes from the lives of women married to CIA officers.

Favorite Holmes:

Hard to pick because different actors brng different gifts, I actually like Ronald Howard from the 1950s tv series because he actually looked the right age for Holmes in the 1880s, but of course Jeremy Britt for his acting chops and insistence on honoring the Canon. Basil Rathbone, especially in the 20th Century Fox, films was exceedingly charismatic and was the first Holmes on film I knew

How did you discover this site?

Hounds has and exellent reputation and I wanted to include it in a list of references for my students in a non-credit Holmes-Watson class I'm teaching for the first time.