Sherlock Holmes
Winners, and A Case in Correspondence: Week Thirteen
The winners of this week’s contests are… For last week’s puzzle contest, Marc B. won the prize, a mini-broadside of “A Venomous Death.” Send in your solution to this week’s puzzle for your chance to win! Shawn S. won this week’s Goodreads drawing. Over at the Virtual Book Club, we had quite a few winners…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Part Twelve
A series of communications (employing means as varied as re-used post cards and the agony columns of the Times) has come to light between Mary Russell and Other Important People, which will be revealed during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz. It follows the 1992 (not a typo!) tale published last year as MyStory (or, The…
Read MoreSherlock puzzles
We had a gratifying number of entries into last week’s “Sherlockism” contest–while I’m mulling them over, you might like to look at them yourself and see if there are any that catch your imagination. (My choice will probably go up mid-week, so you have a couple of days.) And when your grey cells have been…
Read MoreA Case of Correspondence: Part Eleven
A series of communications (employing means as varied as re-used post cards and the agony columns of the Times) has come to light between Mary Russell and Other Important People, which will be revealed during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz. It follows the 1992 (not a typo!) tale published last year as MyStory (or, The…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Week Eleven
What’s this I see? Mary Russell has a new post over on her MySpace page? Episodes of “A Case in Correspondence” will appear there Wednesdays throughout our Twenty Weeks of Buzz, and on Fridays you can find them here at Mutterings. What on earth are the world’s greatest detective and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, up…
Read MoreIt’s raining Sherlockisms!
The Sherlockism is a pithy turn of phrase as favored by Mr Sherlock Holmes: * “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” * “I saw no one.” “That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.” * “I believe that you are the devil himself!” he cried. Holmes smiled at the compliment.…
Read MoreA Case of Correspondence: Part Ten
A series of communications (employing means as varied as re-used post cards and the agony columns of the Times) has come to light between Mary Russell and Other Important People, which will be revealed during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz. It follows the 1992 (not a typo!) tale published last year as MyStory (or, The…
Read MoreOnline & up and down the Coast
We’ve had some absolutely fantabulous entries into the Russellscape project this week, you can see them at the bottom of the home page, here, where you’ll also find a link to the instructions for doing one of your own—come on, get those pencils/paints/scissors-and-glue going! We’ve also had an amazing, gorgeous Illustrated MyStory that we’ll post…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Week Ten
What’s this I see? Mary Russell has a new post over on her MySpace page? Episodes of “A Case in Correspondence” will appear there Wednesdays throughout our Twenty Weeks of Buzz, and on Fridays you can find them here at Mutterings. What on earth are the world’s greatest detective and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, up…
Read MoreA Case of Correspondence: Part 9
A series of communications (employing means as varied as re-used post cards and the agony columns of the Times) has come to light between Mary Russell and Other Important People, which will be revealed during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz. It follows the 1992 (not a typo!) tale published last year as MyStory (or, The…
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