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Book Review by the Sherlock Holmes Society of London "Margaret Park Bridges takes an even more revisionist approach in her novel. The detective’s secret is disclosed at the very start of the book, and it’ll do no harm to reveal it here: Sherlock Holmes was a woman. It’s not a new idea but it’s handled here with great skill and confidence, and it has a purpose, to account for much of Holmes’s personality as described by Dr Watson.  Visits to the Turkish baths must have posed problems, but there’s no real contradiction here of Watson’s accounts. The woman Holmes lives as a man, and Watson believes her to...

"Last year I greatly enjoyed The Amateur Executioner, the first collaboration between Dan Andriacco and Kieran McMullen. It’s a pleasure now to welcome Enoch Hale’s second case, The Poisoned Penman, which begins in 1922 with the unexpected death of Langdale Pike, poisoned while taking tea with Hale. Pike’s specialism, you’ll remember from ‘The Three Gables’, was society gossip, but he seemed to have something more important on his mind. Hale’s investigation, helped by a clever advertising copywriter named Dorothy L Sayers, brings him into contact again with TS Eliot and Winston Churchill, and introduces him to GK Chesterton, Horatio Bottomley and Rudolph Valentino. Not unsurprisingly,...

There are lots of offers on books, art prints and merchandise on our Art Of Sherlock Holmes Page. The Artist Victor Tkachenko lives in Toronto, Canada. Victor received professional art training beginning at age ten and was one of few graduates to complete the extensive and rigorous program from the well-renowned Art School in Krivoy Rog, Ukraine. Working primarily with acrylic on board Victor displays a mastery of line and colour through purposeful brushwork and a palette dominated by rich earth tones thickly applied to the ground. The physicality of his work is enhanced with accents of ink and, intermittently, the addition...

There are lots of offers on books, art prints and merchandise on our Art Of Sherlock Holmes Page. The Artist Rafael Glückstern Gardos was born in 1984 in Israel but he moved to Spain with his family when he was a little child. He spent most of his life there, but after living in several cities in Spain and after working as a painter in Madrid, he decided it was time to discover other countries. That is why he moved to Berlin for few years and Miami afterwards, before finally establishing in New York, where he has his own studio. Since...

There are lots of offers on books, art prints and merchandise on our Art Of Sherlock Holmes Page. The Artist Pedro Linares Herrero, born on September 28, 1972, in the city of Camagüey, Cuba. He studied the career of Visual Arts since he was 12 years old, within the educational system of Special Artistic Teaching of Cuba. He has studied in Technical Sculpture and graduated from the Plastic Arts career at the Higher Institute of Art of Havana, Cuba, with the speciality of engraving. Since 2002, he start living in the city of Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico, where he creates a...