Word: sherlocking
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...again this year Broadway has imported much of its excitement from London. Apart from Equus, the two most highly praised new plays are Alan Ayckbourn's farce Absurd Person Singular and Peter Nichols' black comedy The National Health. And next week the Royal Shakespeare Company's Sherlock Holmes will arrive from Washington, B.C., where it has played to record audiences...
...novel owes its title partly to a blistering chili pepper sauce. It marks the return of an earlier Reed hero, Papa LaBas, the great black shamus. To white readers, he is soul's answer to Sherlock Holmes. To Reed, he is torchkeeper of "HooDoo," the 19th century AfroAmerican folk religion and business that dealt in magic cures, spells and charms...
...long boxcars, salad is served from old baggage carts, brakemen's lanterns light the tables, and a treasury of railroad relics line the walls. To ensure an ample supply of artifacts, the company has just bought the entire East Grinstead Station in England, well known to Sherlock Holmes fans...
...seen fit to bring back Holmes himself in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, coyly subtitled, "Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D." The publisher thought enough of the book's potential popularity to order a first printing of 25,000 copies. In brief, Sherlock lives...
...Cent Solution, Meyer "uncovers" another manuscript, detailing the adventures of the stately Holmes of England in his struggle against the temptations of "nose candy." He also trots out all the old Baker Street regulars: Toby the relentless mongrel; the world's longest-suffering landlady, Mrs. Hudson; Myrcroft, Sherlock's corpulent elder brother; and Dr. James Moriarty-in a new role as innocent bystander...