Cover illustrations by Keizo Iwabuchi for The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1955.
“Boris Karloff stars as Mr. Mycroft, probably a retired Sherlock Holmes, who was managing a honey farm in Sussex. The play was based on H. F. Heard's A Taste For Honey. Mr Mycroft is only suspected of being Holmes and is never directly referred to as such. In a remote village, [he] uses his own bees against a revengeful farmer who has trained his bees to be killers.” — Gordon E. Kelley on “The Sting of Death” (The Elgin Hour, ABC, Feb. 22, 1955), Sherlock Holmes Screen and Sound Guide.
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“Data, data, data! I can’t make bricks without clay!” the iconic literary sleuth Sherlock Holmes once declared. Over a hundred years after his debut, Adam Frost and Jim Kynvin went back through Conan-Doyle’s stories to in search of data to explain Sherlock’s enduring appeal. Above are some of the fun tidbits they uncovered.
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Illustrations by V. Setoft for The Hound of the Baskervilles, Copenhagen: Forlaget Nyttebøger, 1945.
“The Fowlhaven Werewolf”, Sherlock Holmes in Retirement: Five Previously Unpublished Tales, Val Andrews, New York: Magico Magazine, 1983.
“Sentimental reasons? Just making sure.”
O Xangô de Baker Street (2001)
Favourite pieces from BBC Radio's two Sherlock Holmes series headed by Bert Coules, including Bach, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns, Gilbert & Sullivan, and Paganini. (listen)
Source: 8tracks.com
Bits from my collection
Source: sidgwicks