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Dear Holmesians, I came across a site which is doing valuable work in promoting the Sacred Canon among school students in USA. The site asks for volunteers for...
Dear Holmesians, I would like to present you a little mystery created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle regarding Dr Watson's war wound. As we read the Canon, we see...
Dear Holmesians, The monsoons have set in and our group is making heavy weather of posting messages. What happened members, buck up . I hope to see a lot of...
It's the heat. I truly believe I saw butter flowing out from under my cap the other day. It might have been my brains melting, of course, but I'm not so sure! ...
Dear Suman and fellow SHians, I might have the correct answer to this question. Sir ACD was a person with a lot of interests and hobbies, writing being only...
I just bought a two volume boxed set of the complete Holmes canon. The introduction is written by one Loren D. Estleman, and he puts forward another theory-...
Greetings to all the esteemed members of Sherlock Holmes Society of India. Today I have joined the group, courtesy Yahoo! I am an avid reader of the canon as...
dear riju, welcome to the SHSI . please tell us more about yourself and how to were introduced to Sherlock Holmes. and dont just read postings do post messages...
Dear Riju and sallauddin, A warm welcome to SHSI.You will find here the best of discussions on the Master and the Sacred Canon here. We deal with the Canon...
Dear Holmesians, Apart from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , we can blame his editor/ publisher for not maintaining continuity and failing to spot inconsistencies in ...
Dear Ayyub, Welcome to SHSI.We are happy to have you as a member. Can you please introduce youself and tell us how you came to know about ous society? Your...
Dear Holmesians, Ayyub is right . The theory of Dr Watson's conscious mind trying to wipe out the memory of his wound does not hold water. Besides , Dr Watson...
Dear Holmesians, How good a doctor was Dr Watson? In "The Adventure of The Engineer's Thumb", he is shown dealing with one Victor Hatherley for a surgical...
Hi Riju, You are most welcome to join the group. I hope you'll be participating in our debates and Q&A sessions too rather than just reading the postings! But...
Hello friends, One theory I have heard that will explain this mystery: Doctor Watson was bending over a wounded soldier, facing away from the battle, when he...
Hello friends, in "The Illustrious Client" Baron Gruner is attacked by acid. Watson's treatment is to inject a dose of morphia for pain relief, and to bathe ...
Hello everybody!! I am not a qualified doctor as yet but i am in my final year of MBBS all the same.So I would like to venture a comment on Jeff's queries. ...
Dear Sherlockians, I have been a member of Sherlock Holmes Society of India for only a couple of days, and already I have come across several fascinating...
Dear Jeff and other SHians, This is quite possible, although it's also likely that that the order in which the bullet struck was reversed - the shoulder first...
Dear Faisal and Holmesians, I would like to add that the tribal warriors of Afghanisthan were no respecters of military conventions . The war was fought no...
Dear Riju saab, A warm welcome to you . I hope you find the society extremely interesting. Would you please tell us how you came across our society? Sumalsn...
Going back to this matter of Army and Navy, yes, Sumalsn is quite right, we (the British) never liked the 'Continental' idea of large and costly armies and...
Tim Symonds
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Jun 20, 2006 1:08 pm
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Dear Sherlockians, Regarding the query posed by Bichitrananda I would like to inform that Penguin has published excellent translations of the "Feluda" stories...
Thanks for your warm welcome! My name is Atharva Dandekar (my display name is a nod to my admiration for the great Saracen leader).I am seventeen years old at...
Hi Atharva, Would this be the same Saladin who fought the Crusaders around the 12th century? It certainly looks like a corruption of the name, Salah-ad-din! I...
Hi Atharva and fellow SHians, I got it! The author is Molly Cochan and the name of the book is The Forever King. I still can't remember the co-author though. ...
Dear Tim, I would like to believe that World War 2 was the British Army's finest hour, though. It cannot be said that The Canon is entirely without references...
