Word: sherlocks
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...similar product next year. The advantage: CDs are relatively cheap and hold immense quantities of data. Among the 23 CDs currently available for the Discman is a single $40 item loaded with 150 classic works of literature, including the Iliad and Odyssey, the plays of Shakespeare, the complete Sherlock Holmes, and War and Peace. All that's lacking is time to read them...
Readers, however, have an all but boundless appetite for revisiting accustomed pleasures. That is nowhere more true than in the mystery, whose audiences manifest, by their choice of genre, a taste for restoring established order. Victorians so yearned to watch Sherlock Holmes perform his tricks again and again that after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed him out of boredom, he gave in and resurrected the great detective. Dame Agatha Christie had the same murderous impulse toward Hercule Poirot, but slyly tucked the manuscript away until her demise. To this day, the first thing publishers ask is whether a mystery...
...rereads the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. He cherishes their world, the fogs and bobbies, the rational wrapped in an ambient madness, the inexplicable each time yielding its secret in a concluding sunburst, a sharp clarity...
Like Hughes, who made his name writing and directing adolescent stories such as The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Columbus has an affinity for tales of the young told by the young (he directed Adventures in Babysitting and wrote Gremlins and Young Sherlock Holmes). "For this picture I was mostly inspired by old David Lean films," he says, "particularly Oliver Twist and Great Expectations, because they are told from a child's perspective. No one has shown the terror of being a child in an adult world better than Lean...
...turning from P.D. James and Agatha Christie this summer to a real-life riddle that police have yet to solve. Was Theresa Terry murdered? If so, where is her body? The riddle has drawn in the chess columnist for the London Times as well as dozens of would-be Sherlock Holmeses...