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Byzantine Sherlock Holmes...
...Name of the Rose is fundamentally a detective story whose unlikely protagonists are a Franciscan monk and his young novice. Also, who records the events. The pair resembles Sherlock Holmes and the beloved if befuddled Dr. Watson and it is probably no accident that the elder monk is named William of Baskerville (recalling a canine adventure of the more contemporary sleuth). William also indulges in both the same stimulants and the irreverent cynicism favored by the later Holmes. The confines of a medieval monastery, with its many regulations, restrictions and mystical devotion, prove to be the ideal setting...
...little finger of his left hand. Such are the telltale hints dropped by Actress Shirley MacLaine, 49, in her recent autobiography Out on a Limb, describing a gent she once had an affair with. Her enigmatic references to Gerry have kicked off, in the land of Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, a full-blown, real-life mystery. Labor Leader Michael Foot, 69. denied any role in the affair. So did David Owen, 44, Tony Benn, 58, and Peter Shore, 59, who last week all raised their pinkies in emphatic, if somewhat wistful, denial of ever having had anything...
...signs, sets out to write a thriller, the resulting fiction is bound to bristle with more obscure clues, mysterious ciphers and symbolic happenings than were ever conjured up by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. So it is with Umberto Eco's first novel, The Name of the Rose, a Sherlock Holmesian fantasy in a medieval setting...
...author tips his hat to Sir Arthur early on. The name of his medieval detective, William of Baskerville, is an echo of the Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of the Baskervilles. In the 14th century context, William is a Franciscan friar, famed for his formidable powers of deduction. His companion and disciple is called Adso, or in French, Adson, as in the phrase "Elementary, my dear Adson...