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... There are six books in that series. I read most of them while I was an undergrad at IITB. Now need to look them up somewhere :-) There is also the Union...
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sumalsn
May 28, 2012 4:33 pm
Dear Shri Binand and Holmesians, Isaac Asimov also wrote the Black Widow series which was a detection club. Good series though I have read only two of those...
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Binand Sethumadhavan
dnanib
May 27, 2012 4:55 am
... The article starts with this statement from the canon: "You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what...
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Prof. Venugopal bhask...
venugopalbha...
May 26, 2012 7:10 pm
Dear sumal that was a prize.Very good article, though a bit scholastic. If you cant understand it in the first reading, try again.It is worth reading. Is there...
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Prof. Venugopal bhask...
venugopalbha...
May 25, 2012 4:12 pm
That's good! Just inform us the details venu ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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sumalsn
May 25, 2012 7:59 am
Dear Sir and Holmesians, I haven't but this is the first time I have heard of this book. I will try and find out what it is all about! Sumal...
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sumalsn
May 25, 2012 7:56 am
Dear Holmesians, A rather strange article. I could not make much of it!! ...
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jeff katz
jeff_katz_2
May 23, 2012 3:27 pm
hello, Has anyone read ‘The Adventure of Black Drop,' written by ‘Radkris' Praveen Kumar? It was published last year and is reviewed...
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Binand Sethumadhavan
dnanib
May 21, 2012 2:05 pm
It would be good to see the source for this list. Do you have a reference handy? I thought such a list would be dominated by mythological characters (if those...
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pinaki roy
monkaroy
May 20, 2012 12:03 pm
Dear Holmesians, Sherlock Holmes might have been the most popularly-portrayed literary character ever, but certainly not the most famous literary character....
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sumalsn
May 20, 2012 4:13 am
Dear Holmesians, The Master has been depicted on the big and small screen a total of 254 times. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes beats the next most...
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sumalsn
May 19, 2012 7:01 am
Dear Noufal and Holmesians, There is a fairly detailed entry on the "The Crucifer of Blood" on the Wikipedia. You may find some lead over there though at a...
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Noufal Ibrahim
n_kv2001
May 15, 2012 10:21 am
Hello Holmesians, There was a stage production of the "The Crucifer of Blood"[1] in 1980 starring Charlton Heston (of 10 commandments fame) as the sleuth and...
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Binand Sethumadhavan
dnanib
May 9, 2012 10:35 am
On 9 May 2012 15:58, Prof. Venugopal bhaskaran nair ... The URL was broken (misformatted). Try: ...
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Prof. Venugopal bhask...
venugopalbha...
May 9, 2012 10:29 am
Tim Amazon says that the web ad is not functioning now. Thanks to a family friend here in London, I have ordered your book last saturday and I expect it to be...
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Tim Symonds
tim.symonds@...
May 9, 2012 9:21 am
There is a very interesting publication called 'The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook' edited by Peter Haining, with a foreword by Peter Cushing, first published by...
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pinaki roy
monkaroy
May 8, 2012 7:25 am
Dear Sherlockians, I wonder if it is often looked deeply into, but crime-fighting in the Sherlock Holmes stories, to add to the recent topic being discussed,...
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Prof. Venugopal bhask...
venugopalbha...
May 7, 2012 10:55 am
I thought you were talking about Holmes Affair as a collection of stories. venu ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Binand Sethumadhavan
dnanib
May 7, 2012 9:28 am
What am I mistaken about? :-) On 7 May 2012 14:44, Prof. Venugopal bhaskaran nair...
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Prof. Venugopal bhask...
venugopalbha...
May 7, 2012 9:15 am
Dear sethu I fear you are mistaken.Are you talking about the Mammoth Book?.I think it is a collection of stories. But the Holmes affair is a novel in which the...
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Binand Sethumadhavan
dnanib
May 7, 2012 6:59 am
Yep, that's the one. Alternate chapters narrating two different stories. Bram Stoker makes an appearance apparently. Binand On 7 May 2012 12:06, Prof....
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Prof. Venugopal bhask...
venugopalbha...
May 7, 2012 6:36 am
Binand I have read the Holmes Affair a few months back.Was it the story of the loss of holmes diary? If so, it is a good one, alternatively it tells the story...
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Binand Sethumadhavan
dnanib
May 7, 2012 4:01 am
On 6 May 2012 22:22, Prof. Venugopal bhaskaran nair ... Talking of books, I had gone to Landmark in Chennai City Centre last week. There were two books that...
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Prof. Venugopal bhask...
venugopalbha...
May 6, 2012 4:52 pm
Here in North London, the Red Cross has got a second hand bookshop in Palmer's Green.And this is the best one as far I know.I heard that there is one at...
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sumalsn
May 6, 2012 6:25 am
Dear Sherlockians, A delightful account of what policemen in 1880s did to fight crime. ...
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sumalsn
May 6, 2012 6:13 am
Dear Anand and Sherlockians, Welcome back, anand. It was a nice link concisely bringing out the literary quotes of Sherlock Holmes in the Canon. Sumalsn...
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Anand Balachandran Pi...
abpillai
May 4, 2012 11:55 am
Hi friends, It has been a while since I posted to the list. Happened to find this link while reading about Goethe on the several literary references in the...
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Prof. Venugopal bhask...
venugopalbha...
May 3, 2012 4:49 pm
Hello friends This is about a magnificent and scholarly book on the greatest hero. Just now I have put down the book.It is a collection of well researched...
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Prof. Venugopal bhask...
venugopalbha...
Apr 23, 2012 5:06 pm
Thanks.I think I am not bad, I had 7 correct venugopal ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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sumalsn
Apr 22, 2012 6:51 am
Dear Holmesians, Test your knowledge. Here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/bbcfour/quizengine?quiz=conandoyle;templateStyle=default;pagerType=alternating ...
