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Dear Holmesians, We have just passed 07 years of existence on May 28 2008. We must be one of the oldest active societies existing on the Net. It has been only...
Dear Holmesians, I seem to have run out of topics worthy of discussion in this forum. Can any member just pipe in with an interesting subject? Sumalsn...
Dear Holmesians, It seems Guy Ritchie( Husband of Madonna) has benn given the mandate by Wwarner Bros to direct a Sherlock Holmes movie. I only hope he does...
Dear Sumal and other SHians, This is good news indeed. Congratulations everybody! :) Have we ever discussed Edgar Wallace's J.G. Reeder in...
Hi! The piece of news that Guy Ritchie is making the new Holmes movie is interesting. Sumal am sure you meant swept away and not cast away which...
Dear Sachin & Holmesians, You are right, Sachin. I meant "Swept away" starring Madonna . The goof up is regretted and thanks for bringing it to my notice. ...
Dear Holmesians, I agree with Sachin about Swept Away. Guy Ritchie, though a wonderful director (another must-watch of his would be Lock,...
Dear Sri and Holmesians, I remember reading Edgar wallace a long time ago. JG Reeder is the guy who has side whiskers and falls in love witha girl and ends up...
Dear Friends, Â Edgar Wallace's creation J.G.Reeder had earned considerable fan-following in his days, but unfortunately, the subsequent times have not been...
There is another book "J G Reeder Returns" which contains 2 long stories. I've been lucky enough to have both the copies with me - The Mind of J G Reeder &...
There are some ingenious plots. The way he solves the crimes is by putting himself in the shoes of the criminal and think like him. Intuitionist type. But it's...
Dear Riju and Holmesians, Why do detectives like JG Reeder fail to carry their appeal through Generations like Sherlock Holmes. Edgar wallace was a near ...
Dear Holmesians, Sebastian Faulks has come out with a new patische of James Bond. whom do you think among the contemporary writers can do justice to a patsiche...
Dear Arun and Holmesians, Thanks indeed for all this info, Arun! Did anybody know that there was a mention of JG Reeder in one of the westerns by JT...
Dear Sumal and SHians, There are several who could attempt a pastiche of the Great Detective. Why I would do it myself! But, as to who would actually do it...
Dear Holmesians, If we're talking just JG Reeder here, I would say that maybe it was because like Sauron and the Ring, Sir ACD's whole life was bound to...
I guess it can be summarized to a sentence. "No other detective in history, both fictional and real has never been attributed with such a curious set of...
Dear Holmesians, Â I agree with Anand that Sherlock Holmes had indeed been attributed with certain characteristics that had caught the imagination of not only...
Dear Riju, Edgar Wallace was also not as good a writer as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.He was prolific but was not classy. The Canon can stand not only as a good...
Hello all, Edgar Wallace was very popular in Germany in the 1960's and 70's, several dozen films were made of his books (he was also one of the authors of...
Dear Holmesians, I agree wholeheartedly with Sumal on the point of the Canon being good detection fiction and a work of literature. In fact, my initial...
Dear Sherlockians, Please allow me to ask a question related indirectly to the Sherlock Holmes canon. Which, according to the esteemed Sherlockians of our...
Hello, not quite as old as the examples cited by Dr Roy, but in the Catholic and Orthodox Christian scriptures there is the story of Daniel in the temple of...
Dear Sherlockians, Once upon a time I read this story about a man who was walking along a road when he espied a group of the king's soldiers running...
Dear Sri and Holmesians, I remember reading that one.I can add one of mine too. The story of Solomon finding out who the true mother is by asking his soldiers...
Hello, that is "Zadig," by the 18th century French philosopher Voltaire. I believe he based it on an earlier eastern version, though I don't have a source. The...
Dear Jeff, That was indeed a big help. Thanks to you, I can now proudly say that I've read Voltaire! I am going to start searching the bookstores for the...
Hi Sridhar, The electronic form of Zadig is available at Project Gutenberg at: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18972 You can freely download it or read it...
