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...
I mentioned earlier that a small group of us were going to see The Hound of the Baskervilles by a group of strolling players called Illyria (www.illyria.uk.com...
Tim Symonds
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Aug 8, 2007 2:07 pm
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Dear Ramanan and Holmesians, That most certainly clears up the mystery.Thanks,Ramanan for your answer. You are a Tamilian , I presume? Sumalsn...
Dear Holmesians, I happened to see a malyalam movie , "No. 20 Madras Mail" which is about a murder committed on a running train, something on the lines of, "...
Dear Holmesians and Sri, Members would recall that I had suggested JK Rowling would be a excellent choice to pen a SH patische. It seems that hse is writing a...
Dear Holmesians and Arun, I have read the ," Exploits of Sherlock Holmes" written by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr. I will not say that it is a...
Dear Holmesians, The legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray had made three Bengali moves that can be distinctly classified under the genre "mystery/detective". These...
Julian Symons has written a novel by the name of "A three pipe problem" - one of the modern day Sherlock Holmes pastiches where the detective is named Sheridan...
Dear Suman and other SHians, JK Rowling could well try writing a Holmes pastiche, and I believe she can if she sufficiently motivated, but I'm doubtful if...
Dear Suman and other SHians, JK Rowling could well try writing a Holmes pastiche, and I believe she can if she sufficiently motivated, but I'm doubtful if...
Dear Arun and other SHians, I seem to remember having read another book by Julian Symons a few years back... might have been "A Man Called Jones." I'll try to...
Dear Tim and other SHians A good idea, but I'd have to leave me out if I were picking up SHians for the play! I can't act worth, ummm, anything, although my...
hello friends, I've heard that Sandip Ray (the son of Satyajit Ray) has also made films of the Feluda stories, including "Bombaiyer Bombete" with Sabyasachi ...
All this talk about Sherlock pastiches has given my an idea. I've written several Sherlockian Pastiches (see my Sherlock Holmes and The Grand Horizontals...
Dear Holmesians, We seem to have gone into a period of prolonged inactivity. I think last months- 15 posts were the lowest since Nov 2005. Members , please...
Testing members' knowledge: in which adventure does ACD introduce a rival sleuth, the only adventure in which the villain comes to Holmes for help? ...
Tim Symonds
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Sep 4, 2007 8:23 am
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I think Luke Houghton has a point - that SH was not the entirely cold analytical machine he is often cast to be but able to make intuitive leaps, though in...
Tim Symonds
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Sep 4, 2007 8:59 am
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Tim, You have me stumped. The closest I can think of is Pompey, the draghound in the Missing Three-Quarter; but am very curious as to the right answer. Time to...
Answer: The Adventure of the Retired Colourman, published in the UK in The Strand Magazine January 1927 and USA in 'Liberty' December 18 1926. The story is...
Tim Symonds
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Sep 5, 2007 8:24 am
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Thank you. The Case Book is my weakest link. I should start from there. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
There are three novels by Will Thomas featuring the adventures of Cyrus Barker, whom Holmes described as "my hated rival upon the Surrey shore." Barker was a...
Hi All Indian Sherlockians, I have been a lover of the Canon from a long time and always imagined walking into the Sherlock Holmes Society of India someday ......
Dear Mukund and Holmesians, You are most welcome here. I am certain you will not be disappointed by joining this Society. Please feel free to discuss any topic...
Dear Holmesians, In continuation of my efforts to trace out the influence of Sherlock Holmes on the detective fiction genre, I think I should mention about the...
Dear Holmesians, I would like to report an anecdote about Sir ACD I read when surfing through the net. It goes like this, A reporter asked Sir Arthur Conan...
A new book using 'previously unseen archives' is now out, titled 'Conan Doyle: the Man who Created Sherlock Holmes' by Andrew Lycett, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. A...
