!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!January 6, 1854
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in the Strand Magazine, A Case of Identity
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in the Strand Magazine, The Adventure of the Naval Treaty
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in the Strand Magazine, The Adventure of the Reigate Squire
The Final Problem the Death of Sherlock Holmes
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in the Strand Magazine, The Adventure of the Gloria Scott
I first read the series about seven years ago, and Holmes has been my top favourite character--from ANY fiction book--ever since! All of the above pictures are from the Sidney Paget illustrations (for some weird reason they show up small, but if you click them you can see a larger size), which I'll always consider to be "my" version of Holmes. If you haven't read a Sherlock Holmes story yet, I recommend starting with A Scandal in Bohemia; chronologically, it's not the very first story, but it's the first short story, and a great way to get into the series.
One of Holmes's hobbies, of course, was playing the violin (and he played "well", according to Watson); so, it seems appropriate to include this video in the post:
It's the 1st movement of the Korngold violin concerto; I like to subtitle it "Reichenbach", because it really does sound like a waterfall, and it's very sad at times, like the "Final Problem" short story.
P. S. I'm almost done reading Shirley! It's excellent!
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