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The Return of Sherlock Holmes,
Part I of III
by Matthew R. Bradley

The Granada Television productions starring Jeremy Brett adapted 43 of the 60 works in the Sherlock Holmes canon by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) into 41 episodes, two of which drew upon a pair of short stories each. Those 41 comprise four series: The Advent...


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EDWARD D. HOCH “The Alexandria Solution.” Jeffrey Rand, formerly of British Intelligence. Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, December 2008. Not yet reprinted or collected. (I may be wrong about this.)

What this story is most remarkable for, perhaps, is that (as we are informed in the introduction to it) it is...


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A. A. FAIR -Widows Wear Weeds. PI’s Donald Lam & Bertha Cool #27. William Morrow, hardcover, 1966. Dell, paperback, date?. Reprinted several times since.

Donald Lam is hired to stop a blackmailer from making more demands, or so he thinks. The blackmail is fake, intended to establish an alibi, but it creates ideas which prove to be fatal fo...


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I may have miscalculated and come back to the blog a few days too early. There are still lots of things to be done that should have been done while I was away, and while I thought I was back, they weren’t done and they still have to be done, and it’s best if I’m the one does them. So bear with me for a while longer, if you so kindly would. See you again soon. Thanks!


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RAYMOND MASON – Someone and Felicia Warwick. Gold Medal s1248. Paperback original; 1st printing, October 1962.

Felecia 19, is the daughter of the town drunk and is widely known as the town whore, although of the unpaid variety. The first 14 chapters all end with same ominous harbinger of events to come: “Someone was going to kill Felic...


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