Word: holmesiana
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...make sure that everyone knows that this is, after all, a Sherlock Holmes movie, Clark crams a lot of that vintage Holmesiana so dear to the hearts of Conan Doyle fans and provides the audience with radical plots, mysterious cults, rot in high places, missing persons, plus, of course, fog, cobblestones...
...news. Playwright Paul Giovanni is obviously an addict of Holmesiana, but in the diet of drama he is not past Gerber's. His play is silly, campy and confusing, possibly by design...
...devotee of Holmesiana would be glad to remind you that "B" is always set in (small) capitals, thus: 221 B. See Chapter II of A Study In Scarlet...
...CASE OF THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS-Anthony Boucher-Simon and Schuster ($2). Murder of a script writer who is about to mangle The Speckled Band for Producer F. X. Weinberg. Five of the Irregulars-professional men deep-steeped in Sherlock-Holmesiana - forgather in Hollywood as F. X.'s guests, to advise on the picture. Each has an extraordinary adventure, adapted from some case of Holmes's. The script writer turns out to be a bad man as well as a bad writer...
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