Want to read this along with me? This essay is part of The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1927. I used the epub version found on Feedbooks.com. “Tour de Holmes” week begins! After two stories told from Holmes’ perspective, we’re back to a first-person story told by Watson. The classic formula is fully on [...]
Whew. After fifteen months of reading, writing, and research, I’ve finally finished all of my “Tour de Holmes” essays — seventy-five in all. The last four are done, so I decided to spend all next week (Monday through Friday) putting them out. Friday will also have a special bonus — a rarely seen Holmes story [...]
This past week has been pretty stressful. And I’ve talked quite a bit about the impact the past week has had. I’m not going to go into that again. But since last Wednesday, I’ve been burning through books. Not even engaging or inspiring books, but pure comfort books. A lot of Sherlock Holmes, and a [...]
Want to read this along with me? This essay is part of The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1927. I used the epub version found on Feedbooks.com. “The Lion’s Mane,” right after “The Blanched Soldier,” is the second (and final) story narrated by Holmes. This story is noteworthy because it is the only one [...]
Want to read this along with me? This essay is part of The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1927. I used the epub version found on Feedbooks.com. This week we come to “The Blanched Soldier,” the second story written from the perspective of Holmes. This story ends up containing a number of surprising insights [...]
Last Friday, when I was bitching about repeating myself, Ryan Macklin brought this up: To be fair, I often find myself revisiting old topics months or years later, with a new perspective. And because they’re old, either people have forgotten about it or new readers haven’t seen it. [E]ven when I tread the same ground [...]
One of the downsides of keeping a blog is that I end up running into myself. Allow me to explain. I was reading Chuck Wendig’s blog today, and he was talking a little bit about the nebulous nature of “noir” while trying to describe his new novella: It’s noir. Noir-esque. Quasi-noir. I don’t even know [...]