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A Sherlock Holmes Mystery: The Hound of the Baskervilles | Illustrations by Stibane & Luce Daniels

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond

my favourite things meme: day one: favourite book/book series [1/2]: the sherlock holmes stories by sir arthur conan doyle

“Holmes [is] still discussed, revered and cherished across the world.” - The Guardian

Silent film of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his family, aboard the RMS Adriatic, waving to the crowds and posing for cameras on June 24th, 1922 (trip home from America).

From left to right: Adrian, Lena Jean, Lady Jean, and Denis.

Courtesy of: Fox Movietone News Collection at the University of South Carolina

ACD waves like royalty. He knows he’s hot stuff. 

tea-at-221b:

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Illustrator: Alex Secher

Danish edition. Translated and edited for children by Else Schiøler. Published in 1962 by Gad.

bakerstreetbabes:

meiringens:

A Christmas Story Without Slush: Three radio dramatisations of “The Blue Carbuncle” and one even more Christmassy story. (Hover over credits for additional titbits of information)

• The Blue Carbuncle
“Here is the stone; the stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry Baker”
I. Dramatised by John Keir Cross for BBC Light Programme, with Sir John Gielgud as Sherlock Holmes and Sir Ralph Richardson as Dr Watson (first broadcast Dec 14, 1954)
II. Dramatised by Michael Hardwick for BBC Light Programme, with Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes and Norman Shelley as Dr Watson (first broadcast Dec 25, 1961)
III. Dramatised by Bert Coules for BBC Radio 4, with Clive Merrison as Sherlock Holmes and Michael Williams as Dr Watson (first broadcast Jan 2, 1991)
• The Night Before Christmas
Watson plays Santa Claus for Mrs Hudson’s nephews, mysterious presents are wrapped in £20 notes, Holmes sings some carols and of course Moriarty is behind everything.
Written by Denis Green and Anthony Boucher for MBS, with Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr Watson (first broadcast Dec 24, 1945)

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Happy Holidays, and thanks for this beautiful gift to the fandom!

h-a-w-k-e-y-e-r:

15 days of my favourite things

day 1: 

favourite book/book series - Sherlock Holmes (all of them)

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criminous:

Vintage Mystery Recommendation: The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr (1954).

Doyle and Carr combined to create 12 stories that closely aligned themselves with the canon of the famous creator of Sherlock Holmes.  While not the best Holmes pastiches I have ever read, they are solid and deserve a look if you continue to hunger for new tales of the great detective.

netherworldvineyard:

I ordered this, clean wood box 
Square as a chair and almost too heavy to lift. 
I would say it was the coffin of a midget 
Or a square baby 
Were there not such a din in it. 

The box is locked, it is dangerous. 
I have to live with it overnight 
And I can’t keep away from it. 
There are no windows, so I can’t see what is in there. 
There is only a little grid, no exit. 

I put my eye to the grid. 
It is dark, dark, 
With the swarmy feeling of African hands 
Minute and shrunk for export, 
Black on black, angrily clambering. 

How can I let them out? 
It is the noise that appalls me most of all, 
The unintelligible syllables. 
It is like a Roman mob, 
Small, taken one by one, but my god, together! 

I lay my ear to furious Latin. 
I am not a Caesar. 
I have simply ordered a box of maniacs. 
They can be sent back. 
They can die, I need feed them nothing, I am the owner. 

I wonder how hungry they are. 
I wonder if they would forget me 
If I just undid the locks and stood back and turned into a tree. 
There is the laburnum, its blond colonnades, 
And the petticoats of the cherry. 

They might ignore me immediately 
In my moon suit and funeral veil. 
I am no source of honey 
So why should they turn on me? 
Tomorrow I will be sweet God, I will set them free. 

The box is only temporary.

(poem one of the famous “bee poems” by Silvia Plath; fantastic illustration of Sherlock Holmes as beekeeper by EUGENE SMITH— check out his blog!)

hell-yeah-sebastian-moran:

Not quite Sebastian Moran, but close enough.

From Basil and the Pygmy Cats by Eve Titus, illustrated by Paul Galdone.

Professor Ratigan (with the eyepatch) and “the villain’s aide” Captain Doran, are captured by Basil and Dr Dawson.

ihearofsherlock:

Episode 48: Dangerous Work

Download the episode directly here.

When Conan Doyle embarked on his whaling adventure at the age of 20, little could he have guessed what awaited him.

And little did the world know how profoundly his experiences would influence his later life, including the creation for which we know him most intimately - that of Sherlock Holmes.

We’re joined in this episode by the editors of Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure, Jon Lellenberg, BSI and Daniel Stashower, BSI. Jon and Dan have been with us on previous episodes of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere: when we discussed Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters on Episode 13, and again on Episode 37 when we covered The Narrative of John Smith, a lost Conan Doyle manuscript.

What we learn about Conan Doyle’s six and a half month voyage on the Hope is absolutely fascinating - from the provenance of the manuscript itself and how Dame Jean Conan Doyle worked tirelessly to ensure this publication could be seen, to the harrowing adventures that Arthur himself saw as part of this arctic voyage and more - and what we consider the world would have been like had this journey not taken place, or worse: if events had taken a more grisly turn.

   

From the raw and harsh realities that required the ministrations of a third year medical student, to the unexpected swims and from the daily thoughts to the watercolor illustrations, we gain a view of Conan Doyle that truly helps the reader understand the seeds that were planted for a later career. What would his mother, (the “Ma’am”) have thought of his accepting the adventure? What would his work been like absent such adventures? We speculate with the two men who have come to know Conan Doyle intimately through their previous work.

One item of note that the editors shared with us is that Dr. William Henry Neale, the surgeon on board the Eira (a ship that the Hope encountered), posed in a photograph with Conan Doyle at the time. A later photo (in 1892 and pictured below) shows Dr. Neale, who could very easily pass for Dr. Watson.

There is another item of note related to Dr. Watson that was mentioned by Conan Doyle at the conclusion of his voyage, but rather than spoil it here, we’ll let you discover it yourself in the audio.

Finally, rather than the traditional Editor’s Gas-Lamp, we thought that while we had the editors with us, they could read to us from Doyle’s diary. We asked Dan to read a poem that Doyle wrote in the July 26 entry, titled “Meerschaum Pipe.”

We then turn to your comments on previous episodes and review your response to some of our questions/surveys on Facebook. Of course we do our housekeeping and mention all of our social network presence: onFacebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram - including the Top 10 Suggestive Lines from the Sherlock Holmes Canon.

Links:

• Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure[Amazon link]
• Details on the Manuscript of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Whaling Diary on the SS Hope [Best of Sherlock]
• A database of Sherlock Holmes pastiches

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