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The Public Life of Sherlock Holmes
The Public Life of Sherlock Holmes | Michael Pointer
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I really enjoyed Pointer's knowledgeable critiques and reviews of the Great Detective's appearances off the page and on the boards, the silver screen, the airways, the idiot box, and vinyl.

It could have been a dense info-dump, but Pointer cleverly distilled that into the 80-odd pages of Catalogue at the back of the book, delivering 116 initial pages of deftly handled history and anecdotes.
On the strength of this, I've ordered a copy of his 👇

Bookwomble ... "The Sherlock Holmes Files", which, by the same publisher within a year of the present book, I trust doesn't do much recapping of this material.
David & Charles published a series of Holmesian studies in the early to mid '70s, which all seem to be fairly highly rated. It would be a pleasant thing were some other titles to appear on my shelves ?:
https://www.librarything.com/nseries/389564/David-and-Charles-Holmesian-Studies
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"So far we have been spared the spectacle of Sherlock Holmes on ice!"

If you live long enough, though... ?⛸️?

"Sherlock Ice Skating Show"
https://scarlettentertainment.com/gb/acts/sherlock-ice-skating-show

#Sherlocked

BarbaraJean The key words there are “so far” 😂 2w
TieDyeDude I am a firm believer that everything is better as an ice capade show! 😝 2w
dabbe 😮🤩😮 2w
Read4life @dabbe are you ready for a trip to Switzerland? #Sherlocked ✈️ 2w
dabbe @Read4life Let me check my calendar! 🩵✈️🩵 2w
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