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Jon Hancock

Futility Closet: "Notable allusions to unrecorded cases of Sherlock Holmes"

futilitycloset.com/2025/06/10/

Futility Closet · Side Business - Futility ClosetNotable allusions to unrecorded cases of Sherlock Holmes: “‘Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square furniture van. That is quite cleared up now — though, indeed, it was obvious from the first.'” (“The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor”) “‘Farintosh,’ said he. ‘Ah, yes, I recall the case; it was concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, Watson.'” (“The Adventure of the Speckled Band”) “‘Here’s the record of the Tarleton murders and the case of Vamberry, the wine merchant, and the adventure of the old Russian woman, and the singular affair of the...
#SherlockHolmes#Holmes#Fiction
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skua

Looked at the Comments of the sample.

More re-assuring explanation is that there are networks of bot accounts on Youtube boosting Views, Likes & Subscription numbers.

An alternative that troubles me is that maybe that many genuine non-discerning readers of #SherlockHolmes #FanFiction have Youtube accounts.

#BotNetwork
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skua

Have listened to a #SherlockHolmes story written recently.

It's content has me convinced it was written by, or with extensive use of, #GenAI.

It contained a lot of non-sense.
The overall experience was abusive.

I'm now much less likely to read #Fiction written post-2022.

Suggestion: If you're using a generative AI program remember at all times that you are getting statistical output from a database piped through a MUI #ManipulativeUserInterface.

#AI#AIDeception#AIFailure
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bok

I've just started Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds by Manly Wade Wellman and son Wade Wellman. It's a fix-up of several stories involving the famous consulting detective working with Professor George Edward Challenger.

Just a few pages into the first story, I find that Sherlock is in a romantic relationship with Martha Hudson:

⎡ His landlady came in. She was tall, blond, of superb figure and her red lips and blue eyes smiled. He moved toward her and they kissed. ⎦

Blech. No. Just no. | #Holmes #SherlockHolmes

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Sherlock Holmes Quotations

“Oh, didn't you know?” he cried, laughing. “Yes, I have been guilty of several monographs. They are all upon technical subjects. Here, for example, is one 'Upon the Distinction between the Ashes of the Various Tobaccoes.' In it I enumerate a hundred and forty forms of cigar-, cigarette-, and pipe-tobacco, with colored plates illustrating the difference in the ash. It is a point which is continually turning up in criminal trials, and which is sometimes of supreme importance as a clue. If you can say definitely, for example, that some murder has been done by a man who was smoking an Indian lunkah, it obviously narrows your field of search. To the trained eye there is as much difference between the black ash of a Trichinopoly and the white fluff of bird's-eye as there is between a cabbage and a potato.”

— Sherlock Holmes, in “The Sign of the Four”

#SherlockHolmes#quote#mystery
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

When Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, “20,000 people cancelled their subscriptions to the Strand”. Public pressure – & a huge fee – brought Holmes back from the dead; did this fictional immortality influence Doyle’s spiritualism?

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lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/n13/le

London Review of Books · Leah Price · One Chapter More: Ectoplasm
#Scottish#literature#19thcentury
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was born #OTD, 22 May, at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh – a 🎂 🧵

On BBC Sounds: Bridget Kendall explores Conan Doyle’s life & work – the doctor & literary superstar who changed Crime fiction forever

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BBCBBC World Service - The Forum, Arthur Conan Doyle: The man behind Sherlock HolmesThe life of doctor and literary star Arthur Conan Doyle.
#Scottish#literature#19thcentury
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the roamer

HOLMES: Ah, Professor Moriarty, we meet at last! You did not expect me to have this tool in my hand, did you [... fiddles with his OpenAI device].

MORIARTY: ... ? ...

HOLMES: [keeps fiddling]

MORIARTY: Oh come on Holmes, you can do better than that. I am bored. Call me when you are ready. [Vanishes.]

#noAI#SherlockHolmes#Moriarty
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