Word: sherlock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always refused to "warm over" recent Broadway hits. It prefers things that come out of its own workshop or off the top shelves of the classics. Last month C.U. took its first shot at American mystery melodrama-with William Gillette's creaky, 46-year-old version of Sherlock Holmes. The production, staged with finesse, was clever enough to make the creaking sounds seem, fairly often, creepy...
...SHERLOCK HOLMES," THE ADVENTURES OF SOLAR PONS - August Derleth-Mycroft & Moron...
...Watson often tried to deduce a man's occupation from his appearance, but Sherlock Holmes almost always had to set him right. Police medical examiners who lack Holmes's deductive powers but must often try to determine the occupation of a person brought in dead, unconscious, amnesic or deliberately lying can get some ideas from a guide published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week by Dr. Francesco Ronchese of Providence, R. I. and Boston University...
...Like Sherlock Holmes, he used narcotics, to brighten up the dull months of idleness. But he took the cure regularly, never allowed morphine to disturb his meticulous planning. Nevertheless, drugs were his undoing. To get his supplies, in a tight wartime dope market, he forged the signature of a Chicago physician. That was careless. He was arrested (as Major Maclay), sent to a Federal Narcotics Hospital at Lexington, Ky. For months nobody suspected that he was Mr. X, the fabulous forger. After painful checking, the FBI identified...
This is one mystery that keeps you guessing, not only about who did it but about what the crime was. Detective Andrews shows a fine knowledge of everything from cheap Scotch whiskey to "Brooklyn dames" as he uses clues that would have stumped Sherlock Holmes to unravel the mess and corral the miss...