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[Meanderer]

A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Carol​

[Editor's note: This is the second in our series of Christmas posts. Mattias Bostrom, BSI ("The Swedish Pathological Society") was kind enough to submit this, and even though we typically don't publish stories, we thought this was too unique to pass up.]

"Sherlock Holmes was dead. There was no doubt whatsoever about that. His body had disappeared after falling down the Reichenbach Falls, locked in the arms of Professor Moriarty, ending up deep down in a dreadful caldron of swirling water and seething foam. Any attempt at recovering his body had been absolutely hopeless."

"The real murderer was, of course, Dr A. Conan Doyle, who had got tired of his fictitious character, wiped him out with his pen and ink and made sure that the master detective was no more."
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[Meanderer]

 

[Paladin1950]

I really enjoy it when PBS airs those Lucy Worsley British documentaries on Sunday nights. I always watch them. I really enjoy her.

 

[Meanderer]

THE SHADOW OF SHERLOCK HOLMES......

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[Meanderer]

 

[Meanderer]

"Mrs. Holmes": The lost life of a woman who searched for the missing.

Grace Humiston, as illustrated on the front page of the June 24, 1917 edition of the New York Times.
"Grace Humiston only wore black. She worked as a detective for free, solving one of the biggest missing-persons cases of the early 1900s and antagonizing men at the highest levels of power—during a time when women could not even vote. And yet you’ve never heard of her."
"The title comes from the nickname given to her during a brief flurry of fame— before her enemies drove her to retreat into solitude and leave behind few traces for history to keep her name alive."

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"After Ricca’s acclaimed first non-fiction book in 2013, Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster – The Creators of Superman, he spent a year cycling through rejected ideas for his next project—including the notion that his next logical subject would be Batman."

“I wanted no part of that,” he said. “The great irony is that instead I ended up writing about a woman who is rich, both her parents die, always wears black, fights crime and goes outside the law—she’s basically Batman anyway. Except she’s real and a woman.”
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[Pinky]

"Mrs. Holmes": The lost life of a woman who searched for the missing.

Grace Humiston, as illustrated on the front page of the June 24, 1917 edition of the New York Times.
"Grace Humiston only wore black. She worked as a detective for free, solving one of the biggest missing-persons cases of the early 1900s and antagonizing men at the highest levels of power—during a time when women could not even vote. And yet you’ve never heard of her."
"The title comes from the nickname given to her during a brief flurry of fame— before her enemies drove her to retreat into solitude and leave behind few traces for history to keep her name alive."

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"After Ricca’s acclaimed first non-fiction book in 2013, Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster – The Creators of Superman, he spent a year cycling through rejected ideas for his next project—including the notion that his next logical subject would be Batman."

“I wanted no part of that,” he said. “The great irony is that instead I ended up writing about a woman who is rich, both her parents die, always wears black, fights crime and goes outside the law—she’s basically Batman anyway. Except she’s real and a woman.”
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I just ordered this book from the library

 

[Meanderer]

 

[Meanderer]

 

[Meanderer]

 

[smiley]

your joking>> - it's not real???

 

[smiley]

your joking>> - it's not real???

 

[Paladin1950]

 

[smiley]

Sherlock come back all is forgiven - even moriarty??

 

[Meanderer]

 

[MoBeans]

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson go on a camping trip, set up their tent, and fall asleep. Some hours later, Holmes wakes his faithful friend. "Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see." Watson replies, "I see millions of stars." "What does that tell you?" Watson ponders for a minute. "Astronomically speaking, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, it tells me that Saturn is in Leo. Timewise, it appears to be approximately a quarter past three. Theologically, it's evident the Lord is all-powerful and we are small and insignificant. Meteorologically, it seems we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. What does it tell you?" Holmes is silent for a moment, then speaks. "Watson,, someone has stolen our tent."