Word: sherlock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grimesby Roylott tried it with a snake, Colonel Sebastian Moran with an air gun, Professor James Moriarty with evil genius and brute strength. Sherlock Holmes foiled them all. He conquered cocaine, the supercriminals and the erosions of time, and he defeats the makers of Murder by Decree. But, by thunder, it is a near thing...
...Jack the Ripper, slayer of London harlots. An intriguing idea, but hardly unique. In A Study in Terror, Ellery Queen postulated that the fiend of 1888 was a deranged duke. Holmes' official biographer, William Baring-Gould, identified Jack as a Scotland Yard inspector. In the recent The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, Mystery. Writer Michael Dibdin put forth the heretical notion that the Ripper and the detective were aspects of the same character. Now Clark offers his own 7% solution: part authentic atmosphere and 93% balderdash...
This is certainly so in The Crucifer of Blood. The play is ostensibly about a nasty case solved by Sherlock Holmes (Paxton Whitehead) with his customarily occult intelligence - a fancifully distorted version of Conan Doyle's The Sign of the Four. What Crucifer is actually about is Holmes' study, a bibliophile's opulent dream, though Holmes is so busy shooting up cocaine that it is questionable whether he could lift a book. It is also about an opium den so suggestive of for bidden and abandoned pleasures that it might serve as ad copy for Yves Saint...
...Preposterous." "Profitable. In 1978, a London writer named Michael Dibdin, 31, will offer The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, pitting me against the 1888 slayer of harlots, Jack the Ripper...
...same year," Holmes went on, "a young American novelist, Mr. Loren D. Estleman, 25, will publish Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula. " "But you have already annihilated such creatures in the Adventure of the Sussex Vampire. " evertheless, if a man goes to bat for me, the least I can do is listen to his tale. And, in point of fact, both Dibdin and Estleman observe the law, grant them that. As the mystery writer Dorothy Sayers will write of the Sherlockian pastiche, "The rule of the game is that it must be played as solemnly as a county cricket match at Lord...