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He nearly played Sherlock Holmes
Portrait by Oksana Shishkina-KorolenkoBoris Klyuev, the Russian Mycroft • Quiz 2026 - No. 48 • The “Enola Holmes” riddle2 points for each correct answer. • A memorial plaque in Australiafor Sir Arthur's nephew • Alice Barber Stephens • Patience Collier
Exhibition Until 10 January 2027 Sherlock Holmes in Prague
Quiz 2026 - No. 47 • The “Enola Holmes” riddle3 points for each correct answer. • Conan Doyle aboard the Eira • Bill Owen • Wilfred Shine • Henry David Thoreau • Roy Barraclough • C. P. Shilton
Holmesian Studies Sherlock Holmes's simulated oyster delusionin The Adventure of the Dying Detective An inaugural case of oyster-related proto-eco-anxietycompensated, with prophetic overtones Part Two:Proto-eco-anxiety syndrome,synthesis & conclusion by Dr Eric Torres
Quiz 2026 - No. 46 • The “Enola Holmes” riddle7 points for each correct answer. • Sir Laurence Olivier • Philip Leaver • Jonjo O'Neill • Henry Matthew Brock • Stanley Edward Armstrong
Holmesian Studies Sherlock Holmes's simulated oyster delusionin The Adventure of the Dying Detective An inaugural case of oyster-related proto-eco-anxietycompensated, with prophetic overtones Part One:Clinical data& pathophysiological characterisation by Dr Eric Torres
Quiz 2026 - No. 45 • The “telegraphed” riddle5 points for the correct answer. • Arthur Wontner • Richard Lancelyn Green • Algimantas Masiulis • Roger Rees • Ilya Oleynikov • Yuri Stoyanov • Fiona Shaw
Holmesian Studies Sherlock Holmes's telephonecommunications by Lomax (Frank Griese)
Summary table of the useof the telegram in the Canon • “Cone... antics” in EdinburghSherlock Holmes statue damaged • Quiz 2026 - No. 44 • The “Mickey” riddle10 points for the correct answer. • Frank Craig • Freddie Jones • Richard Wilson
Holmesian Studies: Sherlock Holmes's telegraphic communications (3/3) by Lomax (Frank Griese)
Quiz 2026 - No. 43 • Mary Josephine Foley • Marty Feldman • Ernest Borgnine • Hans Elwenspoek
Frank Sidgwick
July 7, 1930Death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Holmesian Studies The Telegraphic Communicationsof Sherlock Holmes (2/3) by Lomax (Frank Griese) • Quiz 2026 - No. 42 • The “Murdered Cyclists of the Canon” puzzle2 points for each correct answer. • Shelley Duvall • Stella Artois Advertisement
Holmesian Studies The Telegraphic Communicationsof Sherlock Holmes (1/3) by Lomax (Frank Griese)
Quiz 2026 - No. 41 • The “Cyclists of the Canon” puzzle3 points for each correct answer. • Frederic Dorr Steele • Thorley Walters • Geraldine James • Sebastian Cabot
Holmesian Studies Sherlock Holmesand Telecommunications ... .... . .-. .-.. --- -.-. -.- / .... --- .-.. -- . ... / . - / .-.. . ... / - ..-.. .-.. ..-.. -.-. --- -- -- ..- -. .. -.-. .- - .. --- -. ... by Lomax (Frank Griese)
Well, you have to see it,because we will be talking about it together soon... • The “inflated” puzzle2 points for the correct answer. • John Wood • Isa Miranda
Holmesian Studies Gravitational Penetration of a Fragment of Petroselinum crispum into a Partially Melted Lipid Medium On the Physical Modeling of an Observation Attributed to Sherlock Holmes by Dr Eric Torres
Quiz 2026 - No. 39 • The “Tour de France” puzzle2 points for the correct answer. • Louisa (Hawkins) Conan Doyle • Jenny Seagrove • Angela Baddeley • Eric Sykes • Alfred Müller • The Prince Henry Tour
Holmesian StudiesThe Autobiographical Chronicles of Dr Watsoncontinued and concluded: August 1901 to March 1927 by Frank Griese (Lomax)
Quiz 2026 - No. 38 • The “The Greek Interpreter” puzzle5 points for the correct answer. • Ross Martin
Holmesian StudiesThe Autobiographical Chronicles of Dr WatsonFirst period: November 1887 to December 1893by Frank Griese (Lomax)
Quiz 2026 - No. 37 • The “The Greek Interpreter” puzzle2 points for the correct answer. • Joseph Clement Coll • Elizabeth Spriggs • Vladimir Nabokov
Holmesian StudiesWatson's Mysterious Wound:A Problem Finally Solved?by Dr Eric Torres
Reading Challenge, tonightThe Greek Interpreter • Quiz 2026 - No. 36 • The “The Greek Interpreter” puzzleas many points as the correct answer. • Kenneth Benda • Geneviève Bujold • Ida Doyle (Foley) • George Sand • Olga Edwardes • Groombridge, Sussex
HolmesologyThe conceptof the total jokeby Bernard Oudin
Quiz 2026 - No. 35 • The “Greek Interpreter” puzzle3 points for each correct answer. • Horace Vernet • Rupert Graves • Rostislav Y. Pliatt • John Heffernan • Vincent D'Onofrio
Scholar School - lesson 2 (2/2)Holmesology...Silly questions & verificationismby Benoit Guilielmo
Quiz 2026 - No. 34 • The “Shouldn’t Have Erased It…” puzzle3 points for the correct answer. • Denis Conan Doyle • Michael Carter • Billy Beck
Scholar School - lesson 2 (1/2)Holmesology...Silly questions & verificationismby Benoit Guilielmo
Quiz 2026 - No. 33 • The “Interprète grec” puzzle2 points for each correct answer. • Viatcheslav Grischechkine • Gilda Radner • Hans Schellbach • Mel Brooks • Adam Brinley Woodyatt
Scholar School - lesson 1What is Holmesology?by Benoit Guilielmo
Quiz 2026 - No. 32 • The “Interprète grec” puzzle2 points for each correct answer. • Jean Leckie (Conan Doyle)
Sherlock Live 2026The Sixth Wavean escape game on Lake Geneva
TheatreWho WantsSherlock Holmes Dead?From July 4 to 25at the Théâtre des Brunes in Avignon • Short storyBernard Quiriny and Sherlock Holmes • Quiz 2026 - No. 31 • The “Interprète grec” puzzle2 points for the correct answer. • Wishbone • Ernest Torrence • Alexis Barquin
GamesEskape on newsstandsA Sherlockian escape game on paper
Sherlock Holmes arrivesin Clue/Cluedo! • Quiz 2026 - No. 30 • The “Interprète grec” puzzle2 points for each correct answer. • Sadi Carnot • Plaque at Meiringen • Athole Stewart • Faith Kent
Reading Challenge 30The Greek InterpreterThe Granada adaptationreviewed by Monique Claisse (part 2)
Quiz 2026 - No. 29 • The “Interprète grec” puzzle2 points for each correct answer and -3 for each wrong answer. • The Conan Doyle family • Statue in Edinburgh • Plaque in Plymouth • Eli Wallach • James Grout • Henry Ward Beecher • Paul Winchell