In Praise of Card CatalogsWe recently saw an old card catalog at an antique mall. What memories that brought back!When I was in grade school and high school, I frequently rode the bus downtown on Saturdays to the main branch of the Cincinnati Public L… Read More
No, He's Not Sherlock Holmes -- But . . . An iconic novel became an icon film -- both masterpieces “I’m not Sherlock Holmes or Philo Vance.” So says Philip Marlowe in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep, which I had the pleasure of re-reading recently.Well, n… Read More
Sherlock, Yes: Sherlockians, Not So Much Julian Symons, the late mystery writer and critic, understood Sherlock Holmes – but not Sherlockians.Last week in these precincts we looked at my recent re-reading of his novel, A Three-Pipe Problem. Insightful comments in re… Read More
Gillette to Brett VSilent but sensational - a German take on The Hound of the Baskervilles Gillette to Brett V, held last weekend on the Indiana University campus in Bloomington, IN, was another wonderful symposium in this series devoted t… Read More
Sherlock Holmes of the 87th PrecinctMeyer Meyer criticizes fellow detective Bert Kling for reading a book on the job instead of working.“I amworking,” Kling protests. “These are stories of the deductive method.”“The what?”“Of detection. Haven’t you ever heard o… Read More
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