#sherlockholmesday — Public Fediverse posts

🔎 Deerstalker hats & calabash pipes out! 🕵️May 22nd is #SherlockHolmesDay & we’re giving away signed copies in two paperback editions of BURIED DEEP, which includes a short story featuring one of the few characters to outsmart Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic super sleuth: “I have been beaten four times – three times by men and once by a woman.” 💄👠

See image for giveaway details. Ends on Sunday, May 24.

You can download a free ebook of THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLESTAR, & Other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle – as well as many other works by the great man – from @gutenberg_org

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/294

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #horror #supernatural

The 12 best Sherlock Holmes stories, according to Arthur Conan Doyle – via @literaryhub

In March 1927, Conan Doyle put together a list of his own top 12 Sherlock Holmes stories, sealed it in an envelope, & left it with the editor of the Strand magazine…

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https://lithub.com/the-12-best-sherlock-holmes-stories-according-to-arthur-conan-doyle/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle

In 1912, “Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the world’s most celebrated fictional detective, had turned detective himself in an actual murder case – in the process liberating a man who had spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit”

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https://crimereads.com/arthur-conan-doyle-and-the-scottish-dreyfus-affair/

#Scottish #literature #Edwardian #Glasgow #Crimewriting #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #truecrime

When Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, “20,000 people cancelled their subscriptions to the Strand”. Public pressure – & a huge fee – brought Holmes back from the dead; did this fictional immortality influence Doyle’s spiritualism?

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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/n13/leah-price/one-chapter-more

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #spiritualism

“Holmes’s stories […] have a surprisingly grounded view of crime, & one that arguably fits better into the hardboiled tradition of Hammett & Chandler than the cozy tradition of Christie”

—Alexis Hall on Sherlock Holmes as noir icon

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https://crimereads.com/sherlock-holmes-hardboiled-detective/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #hardboiled #noir

Curently on BBC Sounds. Harriett Gilbert is joined by internationally bestselling crime writer Denise Mina & Dr Mark Jones, co-presenter of The Doings of Doyle podcast & editor of The Sherlock Holmes Journal, to discuss Sherlock Holmes’s lasting influence on crime & detective fiction.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct74s3

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle

According to Guinness World Records, Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed on screen more than any other literary character. Olivia Rutigliano ranks the 100 best, worst, & strangest screen portrayals of the great detective

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https://crimereads.com/100-sherlock-holmes-ranked/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #film #cinema #television

Conan Doyle “scrawled lists, considering various combinations of given names and surnames…”

—Michael Sims investigates the creation of the Great Detective for @literaryhub – & discovers why today is #SherlockHolmesDay not #SherringtonHopeDay

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https://lithub.com/how-sherlock-holmes-got-his-name/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was born #OTD, 22 May, at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh – a 🎂 🧵

On BBC Sounds: Bridget Kendall explores Conan Doyle’s life & work – the doctor & literary superstar who changed crime fiction forever

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p054419v

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle

𝘔𝘢𝘺 22𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺, 𝘮𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘴𝘰𝘯. 🔍
That’s because this Friday is the annual #SherlockHolmesDay celebration!

Today's #newbook highlights ✨

Tattoo Heartist by #SKAngel
( #BrokenDolls Series)
Aloha Wanderwell Takes the Wheel by #LaurelCorona
The Pagan Warrior by #SJMartin

🔗 in comments #bookstodon

Happy Sherlock Holmes Day!

....yeah, I didn't know either and had to look it up when I saw it elsewhere. Fyi: May 22nd was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's birthday.

#sherlockholmesday

#Film Streaming Tipp 📺
Die Rückkehr des Sherlock Holmes #CrimeStar #deutsch
#KRIMI | #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay
https://youtu.be/uySz_i415RA?si=-JGHNaW55tNw-8pg

Happy International #SherlockHolmesDay ! 🔍🧐 . #kleineKunstklasse

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r7qrb5zaylxnmbes725uhn32/post/3lpqjr5uz5c2e

Happy #SherlockHolmesDay & birthday to #Edinburgh scribe Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, still commemorated with a statue of the great detective close to his family home here our #UNESCO City of Literature, & a nearby pub named after him (the greatest honour a Scotsman can hold!)

Also, Jeremy Brett remains the finest screen incarnation of Holmes. I will brook no arguments on this point!

#Edimbourg #books #livres #SirArthurConanDoyle #JeremyBrett #SherlockHolmes #DetectiveFiction

The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there,
And warmly debated the matter;
The Orthodox said that it came from the air,
And the Heretics said from the platter…

—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Parable”

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46299/a-parable-56d22622a1ac9

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #poem #poetry #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle

You can download a free ebook of THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLESTAR, & Other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle – as well as many other works by the great man – from @gutenberg_org

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/294

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle

“The Captain of the Polestar” is possibly Doyle’s finest supernatural story – & owes much of its atmosphere to Doyle’s own experiences as a 20-year-old medical student, serving as ship’s surgeon on the Peterhead whaler the SS Hope

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/06/arthurconandoyle-arctic

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle

“The Captain of the Polestar”, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
[Being an extract from the singular journal of JOHN M’ALISTER RAY, student of medicine]

As a Dundee whaling ship becomes trapped in the Arctic, strange cries are heard in the darkness & a figure is glimpsed on the floes…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvcA7uYtv6U

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Horror #supernatural #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle

In March 1927, Arthur Conan Doyle put together a list of his own top 12 Sherlock Holmes stories, sealed it in an envelope, & left it with the editor of the Strand magazine…

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https://lithub.com/the-12-best-sherlock-holmes-stories-according-to-arthur-conan-doyle/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle

In 1912, “Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the world’s most celebrated fictional detective, had turned detective himself in an actual murder case – in the process liberating a man who had spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.”

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https://crimereads.com/arthur-conan-doyle-and-the-scottish-dreyfus-affair/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #TrueCrime

When Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, “20,000 people cancelled their subscriptions to the Strand”. Public pressure – & a huge fee – brought Holmes back from the dead; did this fictional immortality influence Doyle’s spiritualism?

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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/n13/leah-price/one-chapter-more

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #Spiritualism

(Conan Doyle personally preferred Professor Challenger over Sherlock Holmes – even dressing up as the Professor for a photograph of Challenger’s Amazonian expedition)

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/29/the-photo-is-the-clue-arthur-conan-doyles-love-for-his-lost-world-hero

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #sciencefiction #scifi #SF #dinosaurs #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle

After THE LOST WORLD, Challenger’s other adventures include the novels THE POISON BELT and THE LAND OF MIST, & the short stories “The World Screamed” & “The Disintegration Machine”. Alan Brown digs deeper into Doyle’s science fiction

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https://reactormag.com/the-further-adventures-of-professor-challenger-by-arthur-conan-doyle/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #sciencefiction #scifi #SF #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle

Doyle didn’t just write Crime fiction: Alan Brown looks at Arthur Conan Doyle’s “vain, volatile, & brilliant” Scottish adventurer-scientist-explorer & dinosaur hunter Professor George Edward Challenger…

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https://reactormag.com/dinosaurs-in-the-amazon-the-lost-world-by-arthur-conan-doyle/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #sciencefiction #scifi #SF #dinosaurs #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle

“Holmes’s stories […] have a surprisingly grounded view of crime, & one that arguably fits better into the hardboiled tradition of Hammett & Chandler than the cozy tradition of Christie”

—Alexis Hall on Sherlock Holmes as noir icon

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https://crimereads.com/sherlock-holmes-hardboiled-detective/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #noir

According to Guinness World Records, Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed on screen more than any other literary character. Olivia Rutigliano ranks the 100 best, worst, & strangest screen portrayals of the great detective

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https://crimereads.com/100-sherlock-holmes-ranked/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #TV #television #film #cinema #adaptation

Conan Doyle “scrawled lists, considering various combinations of given names and surnames, including Sherrington Hope…”

—Michael Sims investigates the creation of the Great Detective – & why today is #SherlockHolmesDay not #SherringtonHopeDay

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https://lithub.com/how-sherlock-holmes-got-his-name/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was born #OTD, 22 May, at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh – a 🎂 🧵

On BBC Sounds: Bridget Kendall explores Conan Doyle’s life & work – the doctor & literary superstar who changed Crime fiction forever

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p054419v

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle