#sherlockholmesday — Public Fediverse posts

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

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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/

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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/

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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

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“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/

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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

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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/

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