![]() ![]() It’s been many years since I read the Sherlock Holmes canon, so I may not be the best qualified to judge the worthiness of Sherlock Holmes and the Thistle of Scotland as a pastiche. Liese Sherwood-Fabre has released three books in a series of the early years of Sherlock Holmes. (Pamela) Greenwood.New York: Pocket Books, 1990. Book Review: More Sherlock Holmes Pastiches By: Chris Chan New entries in the Sherlock Holmes saga have become a subgenre in themselves in crime fiction, and this review will cover some interesting new releases. A solitary and bookish woman with a penchant for mathematics is not. To close the evening, Michael Kean, our new “Wiggins,” invested 14 new Irregulars, seven men and seven women, the latter including Laurence Deloison from the Cercle Holmesien de Paris. Sherlock Holmes and the Thistle of Scotland by L. Kaveri has moved to Bangalore to become a proper wife to Ramu, the doctor to whom she was given in marriage as a 16-year-old. ![]() All the talks were splendid, notably Andy Solberg’s clever roast of Mycroft Holmes, Ray Betzner’s appreciation of Sherlockian bookman Vincent Starrett, and Ira Matetsky’s account of the aftershocks from Rex Stout’s notorious 1941 presentation, “Watson Was a Woman.” In my own toast, I first mourned the loss in 2021 of Michael Whelan, the BSI’s longtime head (always referred to as “Wiggins”), then pointed to Sherlock Holmes as “an emblematic avatar of reason in this, our age of unreason.” Among those memorialized in Marsha Pollak’s “Stand With Me Here Upon the Terrace” - honoring Irregulars who died in 2021 - were two longtime Washingtonians: Philip Brogdon, the BSI’s first Black member, and Jon Lellenberg, the society’s disputatious historian and a mentor to me and many others. The Sherlock Holmes canon was wonderful to read as a child with the great detective making things look pretty elementary and exciting to say the least. Volume I include the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. Despite my initial worries, the evening went exceptionally well.
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