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An extract from 'The Adventure of the Wordy Companion: An A-Z guide to Sherlockian Phraseology' by Nicko Vaughan Here are just five of the 'I's referenced in Nicko's Wordy Companion: Iconoclast - a person who criticises a person’s beliefs or attacks institutions and ideologies. In The Adventure of the Six Napoleons Lastrade and Holmes theorise as to the motivations of the unknown smasher of Napoleon busts. “ Considering how many hundreds of statues of the great Emperor must exist in London, it is too much to suppose such a coincidence as that a promiscuous iconoclast should chance to begin upon three...

Join the king of the detectives as he brings to life those three startling cases, The Sussex Vampire, The Creeping Man and The Devil's Foot! Jonathan Goodwin returns as Sherlock Holmes, in a show scripted by himself and co-directed by Goodwin and Gary Archer.  Live performance via Zoom - 500 free seats in the live virtual theatre. One lucky ticket holder will win our prize draw. This month's prize is an extremely rare, mint condition still in its original shrink wrap Chinese release of Benedict Cumberbatch in Transition from our personal collection - which includes exclusive colour photos an a...

Guest post from author Orlando Pearson... "So here it is. Your cut out n’keep ranking of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The main problem with them is that there are only sixty. I have done my best to make up for it by publishing thirty-one of my own in The Redacted Sherlock Holmes series – Volume VI just out. A few years ago, my brother and I rated the Canon. We were pretty much of one mind on the worst and had a complete mismatch on the best. I hope everyone disagrees with most of this." Orlando Pearson   THE RED-HEADED...

Press Release - 8th May, 2020 The Strand Magazine is one of the USA's most popular Crime and Mystery titles. Now, thanks to a partnership with the world's largest Sherlock Holmes publisher MX Publishing based in London, the magazine is launching in Europe.By working with MX, The Strand is able to reduce subscription costs for Europeans by over 25% - making the magazine a must-have for mystery fans. The Strand Magazine is a quarterly which offers the best of both worlds—publishing previously unpublished works by literary masters such as John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Heller, Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams...

An extract from 'The Adventure of the Wordy Companion: An A-Z guide to Sherlockian Phraseology' by Nicko Vaughan Here are just five of the 'H's referenced in Nicko's Wordy Companion: Harum-scarum - a person who is reckless, impetuous or irresponsible. Henry Wood explains his past self  to Holmes and Watson before he became the twisted wreck of a man in The Adventure of the Crooked Man. “I was a harum-scarum, reckless lad, and he had had an education, and was already marked for the sword-belt”  Heeled - a slang word meaning armed, most likely with a gun. Abe Slaney recalls to...