Saturday Holmes

[tealin]

After catching up with four hours of Holmes plays I'd missed on account of not having RealPlayer at work, there was only one possible subject for my sketchbook last night:




Yeah yeah, he looks like a cross between Jacques and Otto, and is veering too old, but it's a start! Yes? I do like my Watson, he looks more like how I picture him in the plays and text without quite so much of the stereotypical pudgy old man. Is the moustache canon? I don't remember a specific mention of it but it seems to be pretty universal.

Oh, and what would be complete without Mycroft? Tee-hee.

If you want to give yourself a treat (before Wednesday and Thursday, respectively) listen to The Final Problem and The Empty House. Yay character development! Sir Conan Doyle is so mean to Watson.

I have any number of rational excuses for not sketchbooking on Friday but none of them matter; suffice it to say discipline is severely lacking in the sketchbook camp this year. I will do a compensatory page today and then ... try ... again.

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[ravenclaw-eric.livejournal.com]

They've been reprinted many times, both in the UK and Commonwealth and the US (I don't know where you are offhand). Go to Amazon, enter "Raffles" for the title and "Hornung" for the author, and you should get a good selection. Or try a public library---if they don't have them they can certainly special-order them.

There are three collections of short stories---_The Amateur Cracksman,_ _The Black Mask_ and _A Thief in the Night._ There's also a novel, _Mr. Justice Raffles,_ which I read once but haven't seen in over twenty years.