OK, so I'm a bit ahead of you in the series. Let me know as you continue to read through it. You also might like the Irene Adler series by Carole Nelson Douglas.
Its exciting about the translation. Perhaps you can post a couple of paragraphs from...
See my comment about the Peter Cushing Hammer version of the movie.
It does occur to me that this is a running theme in the book. Even in the Adventure of the Red Circle, the villain is Italian-American. As I recall, in The Sussex Vampire, the So...
Fitting in with Donald's point about the "foreign evil" perspective of the story: The funniest thing is the Hammer Studios edition of the Hound movie is that the wife from South America is portrayed as the REAL mastermind behind Stapleton's plans....
Yes, I enjoyed this one as well. I particularly liked the way he incorporated Holmes and Watson into the plot of the original Dracula novel. Very inventive. Did you ever read Estleman's sequel, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Holmes? A similar treatment of the ...
I really liked Enter The Lion myself, particularly for its young pre-Watson depiction of the Holmes boys, as well as the Post Civil War conspiracy, which has SOME historical truth to it. Note my comments elsewhere on The Childhood of Sherlock Holm...
I should have guessed this.
I've read the Mary Russel books up through O' Jerusalem. For some reason, I really liked The Moor. I got so into it I actually purchased A Book of Dartmoor by S. Baring-Gould to keep in my Sherlock Holmes book collecti...
Retired School teacher, participated with various Sherlock Holmes groups since the 1970s, founding member of The Montague Street Lodgers of Brooklyn, member of Doctor Watson's Neglected Patients since 1989. I'm a Sherlock Homes book collector and have many hobbies and interests ranging from Comic Books to Paleontology.
Favorite Books:
The Sherlockian Canon, Boyer's The Giant Rat of Summatra. I enjoy both the Carole Nelson Douglas Irene Adler series and the Laurie King Beekeeper's Apprentice series. I also read things related to Star Trek, Nero Wolf, King Arthur, Jane Austen, Lord Peter Wimsey, James Bond, and, my latest obsession, H.P. Lovecraft.
Favorite Holmes:
Rathbone and Brett, natch.
How did you discover this site?
Another Sherlockian told me about it.
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