Tag Archives: Arthur Conan Doyle

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‘Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!’

28 October 2012 · by · in Marginalia

Fear is the tale’s lynchpin. Though preternatural hounds and a family curse form the foundations of Holmes’s new case, The Hound is a story of how fear kills—how the very idea of something monstrous in the shadows can be lethal, and how sly little villains can successfully seize on that facet of human nature. And, of course, it will take the straight-spined rationality of the Holmesian world—of Sherlock Holmes himself, and the as-vital-as-ever Watson—to reinstate order in the moors. [Continue reading.]

Stuff I’ve Been Reading While I Disappeared from the Glittery World of the Intarwebz

25 May 2011 · by · in Marginalia

It’s definitely an improvement: I’m guilty about abandoning this blog for fewer hours in a day. The usual excuses: Work’s been crazier than ever, I like sleeping, I like reading, I am lazy, blah and blah. Still, though, I owe it to my O.C. tendencies to kick-start this blog with a moratorium of the books […]

On The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — “the last court of appeal” — by Arthur Conan Doyle

28 March 2011 · by · in Marginalia

Aherm. Previously, in Sasha’s Escapades with Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, MD — Baker Street, the canon, and all that sleuthing jazz: ♦ A Study in Scarlet. My first Sherlock Holmes, the first book, which “beat my preconceptions to a pulp.” Just so giddy to be part of ~Holmesiana. ♦ Sherlock Holmes Selected Stories. Which […]

“It was indeed like old times when, at that hour, I found myself seated beside him in a hansom, my revolver in my pocket, and the thrill of adventure in my heart.”

6 December 2010 · by · in Marginalia

In glancing over my notes of the seventy-odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the […]

marginalia || A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle

10 August 2010 · by · in Marginalia

My first Sherlock Holmes! I won a giveaway on Twitter a while back, for the complete Sherlock Holmes canon from Oxford World’s Classics. They’ve been on my nightstand [well, what surface I could find] since I got them from the post office. So, I figured this would’ve been as good a time as any to […]