Word: sherlock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These ruminations of Dr. Watson in the Boscombe Valley Mystery would seem elementary to Dr. Thomas Arthur Gonzales, New York City's chief medical examiner for 17 years. Yet U.S. cities have long ignored what every Sherlock Holmes fan knows: that in fighting crime, the most important clues are often furnished by medicine. When Dr. Gonzales went to work in the newly created office of medical examiner in 1918, it was common enough for crimes of violence to go undetected, and not uncommon for sudden deaths to result in criminal charges against innocent people. The teeming, sprawling city...
...Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr. New yarns lovingly constructed by a pair of contemporary Sherlock fans from "unsolved cases" mentioned in the original stories (TIME, April...
...Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr. New yarns lovingly constructed by a pair of contemporary Sherlock fans from "unsolved cases" mentioned in the original stories (TiME, April...
...Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr. New yarns lovingly constructed by a pair of contemporary Sherlock fans from "unsolved cases" mentioned in the original stories (TIME, April...
Spiders & Guillotines. The famed Holmesian deductive method is also unchanged. In "The Deptford Horror," for example, it is soon clear that Mr. Theobold Wilson is a left-handed man with a Cuban background. "Your [walking] stick is cut from Cuban ebony," says Sherlock, "[and] there is a slight but regular scraping . . . along the left side of the handle, just where the ring finger of a left-handed man would close upon the grip." "Dear me, how simple," chuckles Mr. Wilson, blandly leading Holmes down to the cellar stove in which he keeps two specimens of the Galeodes spider-"the horror...