Sherlock Holmes
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His Last Bow: Holmesian Horror
While many Sherlock Holmes stories lend themselves to spooky season, I found myself especially creeped out by His Last Bow. This 1917 collection contains some of the most gruesome (and memorable) episodes in the entire series, along with an inordinate dose of Mysterious Women and Sinister Foreigners. Dated elements aside, I really enjoyed His Last Continue reading
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Note: I am writing this review at the airport—and a day late, at that!—so I will be brief for once. 🙂 In this collection of tales, Sherlock Holmes returns to the reader in every way, wrapping up loose threads from “The Final Problem” and picking back up more or less where Doyle left off. The Continue reading
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May Flowers, 2024 edition
It is the last hours of May on the West Coast, and I wanted to share a bouquet of books—that is, everything I’ve been reading recently: A Woman’s Story by Annie Ernaux. A friend had been telling me to read this French author (and Nobel Prize winner) for years, and this memoir about her mother Continue reading
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The Brilliance of “Baskervilles”
My first encounter with Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles was in the mid-90s. The children’s public TV show Wishbone aired an episode called “The Slobbery Hound,” of which I remember nothing except the scene with the painting. However, the plucky little Jack Russell terrier helped me fall in love with classic literature, and especially Continue reading
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