by Mick Finlay | Jul 17, 2017 | Blog Article, Sherlock
Five of the Best Villains and Victims in Sherlock Holmes Stories People love the Sherlock Holmes stories for lots of reasons, but one of the joys for me is the secondary characters Conan Doyle creates. The best of them are drawn vividly and economically, using...
by Melodie Winawer | Jun 29, 2017 | Blog Article, Sherlock, Writing Tips
What makes a Great Clue? Writing Lessons from Masters of Mystery Before I turned ten, I devoured The Complete Sherlock Holmes. Sometimes I read by myself but often I read out loud with my father, who loved Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories and recited passages from memory...
by Ed Lawrence | Apr 5, 2017 | Fiction, Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes and The Scene of the Crime The autumn of 1897 presented such an array of singular cases that to pen any one of them seems unjust to those excluded. Clients from all walks of life brought their seemingly insoluble problems to my friend for resolution....
by Lyndsay Faye | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog Article, Sherlock
Top Ten Sherlock Holmes Pastiches I’m delighted to present my top ten list of traditionally published pastiches for the venerable Strand Magazine, for which I’m honoured to have written ten of my own Sherlockian tales, which are now collected, for the first time, in...
by Bob Rivers | Jan 13, 2017 | Films, Sherlock
The Top Ten Sherlock Holmes Films This article is going to ignite strife, controversy, and debate. Just what I like. I didn’t limit this to films on the big screen because that would exclude Jeremy Brett and Benedict Cumberbatch and then I’d really get some...
by Cathy Ace | Dec 19, 2016 | Authors, Sherlock
Why is Sherlock Holmes so Popular? Ratiocination Rules! Readers of The Strand Magazine can be in no doubt that this publication’s most famous “son” is riding high in the popularity stakes at the moment. We live in a time when there are perhaps more incarnations of,...
