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In case any members are in England on Sunday August 5 there is a performance of The Hound of the Baskervilles, taking place within one of the UK’s most ...
Tim Symonds
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Jul 2, 2007 11:54 am
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Dear Nikhil and SHians, Yup, there is asociety which brings railway enthusiasts with Holmesians in England. Sumalsn...
Sounds like a good idea from Sridhar. First there's have to be the plot. How about involving the Anarchists from those times? _____ From:...
Tim Symonds
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Jul 9, 2007 7:27 am
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I was thinking more on the lines of Anarchists from today. Maybe give Holmes a really long life (he drank the Elixir of Life when he was Sigersen in Potala!)...
Dear Tim and Holmesians, There are not many National level magazines/ Newspapers who publish short stories of Amateurs nowadays. I remember " Mirror " of the...
Dear Sumal and SHians, Actually I was thinking more on the lines of a novelette, if not a novel. A collaboration of at least 10-11 Holmesians. LOL, we could...
Back in the 1960s or 1970s a group of about 6 people in New York wrote a novel together and I think it sold well, possibly because of the publicity it...
Tim Symonds
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Jul 13, 2007 11:27 am
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Dear Tim and Holmesians, It may be made more contemporary- Probably we may think of using current events as the background! sumalsn...
LOL. There's always someone who has done it before. Like Holmes says, there's nothing new under the sun. Well, we could still give it a try. More than just 6...
Dear Sri and Holmesians, I suppose a new James Bond novel is being written by Sebastian Faulks.I think the Estate of Sir ACD should commission a well known ...
Today is the day millions of copies of the new JK Rowling are flying around the world. A copy was delivered by special delivery at 7 this morning here, deep in...
Tim Symonds
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Jul 21, 2007 9:52 am
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Ideally from the Society's point of view the plot should bring Sherlock Holmes out to South Asia, perhaps with Dr Watson showing him his old military posts. I...
Tim Symonds
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Jul 22, 2007 12:22 pm
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He spent time in Trincomalee (Sri Lanka) and Lhasa (Tibet), as far as I remember. And of course, the Mandala of Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the best of the...
My mail came up blank - maybe becoz of the attachments. Adding links in the mail instead of the attachemnts. I joined this group just a few days back and...
This is wonderful information and many thanks to Arun for sending it. I like the idea of Trincomalee at the end of the information - there is a now nearly...
Tim Symonds
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Jul 23, 2007 8:21 am
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Ok. Here goes: I'm a 28 year old male S/W Engineer from Bangalore. My hobbies include reading, travelling & photography. I started off crime fiction with...
Arun's point about authors playing it fair with the reader is a good one. There is a lot of detective fiction where the reader really has no chance of guessing...
Tim Symonds
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Jul 24, 2007 10:32 am
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Dear Sherlockians, Having had read Arun’s and Tim's letter regarding the detective fiction authors' not giving a clue to what is rally going to happen, I...
As illustrated by the events and denouement of my favourite story, many of these 'rules' don't always work. Nikhil *"...[I]f it should ever strike you that I...
Majority of the novels in the Golden Age period struck to these rules and the popular authors have been very successful in using these rules and playing fair...
I haven't looked at the seventh and 'final' JK Rowling but I believe she has bumped off a significant character. I wonder if in the future the demand for her...
Tim Symonds
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Jul 26, 2007 1:57 pm
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There was an interesting television series made in the US which was broadcast here in the UK a few years back, about a detective in (presumably) California who...
Tim Symonds
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Jul 26, 2007 2:07 pm
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Dear Tim and other SHians, Isn't that what was being said about Die Hard? Willis nevertheless is back with his "yippee-ka-yay" stuff and what's more there is...
Ah, yes. The "inverted" detective story was pioneered by R Austin Freeman, who wrote the stories about Dr Thorndyke. The first was 1908, I think. Freeman based...
Dear Arun, Welcome aboard. We recognize a true fan when we see one.We are the best Indian Society disussing SH and we intend to stay that way. Thanks for the...