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I Am an Omnivorous Reader 43 I AM AN OMNIVOROUS READER Book reviews by DAVID JONES, NICHOLAS UTECHIN and ROGER JOHNSON Y Cylch Brith - Stori gyntaf Sherlock Holmes yn y is a slight feeling of padding with the BFI’s Nathalie Gymraeg 7KH6SHFNOHG%DQGWKH¿UVW6KHUORFN 0RUULVZULWLQJXS+ROPHV¶VVLOHQW¿OPKLVWRU\ LWZDV Holmes story published in Welsh) by Sir Arthur bad luck that the book was at the binders when the Conan Doyle, translated by Eurwyn Pierce Jones. Y great Gillette discovery was made public!) /ROID . 2014. 60pp. £3.95. (pbk) In production terms, there are some annoying At last a story of the Great Detective has been errors that should have been picked up at the proof- translated into Welsh! All Welsh people speak reading stage; but these are balanced by some lovely English, of course, but the Welsh language is thriving picture reproductions (especially the atmospheric and is spoken by approximately half a million people London photogravures made by Alvin Langdon in Wales and many more throughout the world. The Coburn early last century). selection of this story, Conan Doyle’s favourite, to This is a solid and welcome addition to any EH WKH ¿UVW WUDQVODWHG ZDV PDGH E\ WKH ([HFXWLYH Holmesian library — but I am glad to hear that the Committee of The Deerstalkers of Welshpool, whose Museum may be reconsidering its original decision Chairman, Roy Upton-Holder, and President, Roger not to publish a catalogue of some of the remarkable Llewellyn, must be delighted with its publication by items brought together in the exhibition. Y Lolfa Press of Talybont, Aberystwyth. NU The translation is a triumph. Eurwyn Pierce Jones has produced a readable and exciting modern In The Company of Sherlock Holmes – Stories version of the Victorian-styled English narrative — Inspired by the Holmes Canon edited by Laurie R a daunting challenge! This translation is, I believe, King and Leslie S. Klinger. 3HJDVXV%RRNV . 2014. xii the hundredth language in which one or more of the + 260pp. From £9.81 (hbk) Sherlock Holmes stories are now available. The book Yes, this is WKDW book! The collection of Holmes- will appeal greatly to the young and not so young inspired stories (note: not pastiches) over which the reader and to the serious Holmesian collector and, big court case was fought between Les Klinger and of course, to those students of linguistics who may the Conan Doyle Estate as to whether a fee should be be thinking of studying the oldest living language in paid to the latter. Europe. <JHPV\GGDUGUDHG (The game is afoot!) It is excellent to see a second outing of tales by DJ famous authors — straightaway the names of Sara Sherlock Holmes - The Man Who Never Lived Paretsky, Jeffrey Deaver and Michael Dirda should be and Will Never Die compiled by Alex Werner. (EXU\ recognised. This volume is a follow-up to $6WXG\LQ 3XEOLVKLQJ . 2014. 256pp. £25.00 (hbk) 6KHUORFN and is just as intriguing: in a world replete The title is that of the Museum of London’s with second-rate pastiches that may need listing but Holmes exhibition — Werner is its curator. This often not reviewing, this is a welcome selection of is emphatically not a catalogue of the show but a tales, created — as the editors write — by “men and publication to accompany and publicise it. 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Bohemian side and Pat Hardy (Curator of Paintings, To counterbalance: Michael Sims intrigues with his Prints and Drawings at the Museum) contributes an take on the personal memoirs of … Silver Blaze; interesting essay on “The Art of Sherlock Holmes”, and Jeffrey Deaver pulls off so sudden a shift in with an emphasis on illustrations of London. plot and emphasis (“The Adventure of the Laughing +ROPHVLDQVZLOO¿QGOLWWOHWKH\GLGQ¶WDOUHDG\NQRZ Fisherman”) that you’ll scarce believe it’s happened. DERXW 6LGQH\ 3DJHW¶V LQÀXHQFH RQ WKH LFRQRJUDSK\ NU of Holmes in an article by Werner himself; and there 44 How Watson Learned the Trick by Sir Arthur Conan memories, Baltimore area Sherlockians established Doyle. :DONHU%RRNV 5R\DO&ROOHFWLRQ7UXVW . 2014. a :HHNHQG:LWK 6KHUORFN +ROPHV in 1980. The Six 24pp (hbk) Napoleons and the Carlton Club still team up with the $UWKXU&RQDQ'R\OHZDVZKHQKHFKRVHD¿UVW Enoch Pratt Library to present an annual symposium, rate comic writer. In 1896, to help raise funds for and Bill Hyder has selected papers from the remarkable Edinburgh University, he wrote “The Field Bazaar”, variety of canonical scholarship presented at what a clever spoof of his own stories, and in 1922 he has long been 6DWXUGD\ :LWK 6KHUORFN +ROPHV . It’s was one of the authors invited to contribute to the a splendid collection: twenty-eight papers, by names library of Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House. +RZ:DWVRQ familiar (Steven Rothman, Evelyn Herzog, Peter /HDUQHG WKH 7ULFN was the result, a very short self- Calamai, John Pforr) and less so (Sandra J Ailiff, parody, written in his small neat hand on tiny sheets of W Glenn Lieske, Deborah Clarke) on a fascinating paper that were then exquisitely bound for the Dolls’ variety of topics. House. This beautiful facsimile of the unique original is a real treasure. It comes in a lovely gold-stamped Investigating Sherlock Holmes: Solved & Unsolved cloth-bound package, with an attractive, informative Mysteries by Hartley R Nathan and Clifford S booklet. Goldfarb. 0RVDLF3UHVV . 2014. xvi + 209pp. £13.45 (pbk) $ 6KHUORFN +ROPHV 0RQRSRO\ $Q 8QRI¿FLDO Two leading Canadian lawyers also happen to be Guide and Outdoor Activity by JP Sperati. ,UUHJXODU leading Holmesian scholars, whose work has been 6SHFLDO3UHVV . 2014. 199pp. Deluxe full colour edition published in &DQDGLDQ +ROPHV , 7KH %DNHU 6WUHHW £18.99 (pbk) -RXUQDO and elsewhere. Most of the twelve excellent You may think there’s no obvious link between pieces in this book (which include contributions by the great detective and the standard London version Joseph Kessel and John Linsenmeyer) were given as of the game, but as you follow Holmes around the talks to the Bootmakers of Toronto, and they all have locations on the Monopoly board, preferably walking a very engaging freshness. 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Fan Phenomena: Sherlock Holmes edited by Tom The Real World of Sherlock by BJ Rahn. $PEHUOH\ . 8H -RQDWKDQ &UDQ¿HOG ,QWHOOHFW %RRNV . 2014. 2014. 256pp. £20.00 (hbk) 153pp. £15.50 (pbk) Just “Sherlock”, so we know which market the Most of the contributors spoke at last summer’s publisher has in mind, but this is actually an absorbing conference 6KHUORFN +ROPHV 3DVW DQG 3UHVHQW : we account of how a Scottish-born member of an artistic have the editors on fan culture, and Holmes and Anglo-Irish family came to create a character that still, Shakespeare, Jonathan Barnes on writing audio QHDUO\ \HDUV ODWHU GH¿QHV WKH *UHDW 'HWHFWLYH drama, Luke Kuhns on pastiche, Benjamin Poore LQWKHSXEOLFPLQG%-5DKQH[DPLQHV¿FWLRQDODQG on Moriarty. The exceptions are Noel Brown on factual antecedents (though she seems unaware of 6KHUORFN+ROPHVLQWKHQG&HQWXU\ , Russell Merritt the disappearance in 1881 of a Mr Stanger, which on Sheldon Reynolds’ 1954 TV series, and Shane was investigated by a detective named Scherer), and Peacock on writing the %R\6KHUORFN+ROPHV novels. compares Sherlock Holmes’s methods with those of There are interviews with the creators of the <RXQJ the police. Even old hands will learn something from 6KHUORFN+ROPHV$GYHQWXUHV graphic novels, the co- WKLVERRNDQG¿QGSOHDVXUHLQGRLQJVR author of the 6KHUORFN +ROPHV <HDU 2QH graphic novels, and the authors of 6WHDPSXQN+ROPHV/HJDF\ Sherlock: Chronicles by Steve Tribe. %%& %RRNV . RIWKH1DXWLOXV , 'HDG0DQ¶V/DQG and 7KH+RXVHRI 2014. 320pp. £25.00 (hbk) 6LON . It’s a rich, varied and most interesting mixture, This is what we hoped 6KHUORFN 7KH &DVHERRN let down by an unnecessarily small sans serif font in would be: the story of how and why the mad idea the main articles. of making Sherlock Holmes as modern again as he is in Conan Doyle’s tales spawned an international Sherlockian Saturdays At The Pratt edited by phenomenon. Mr Tribe has interviewed the writers William Hyder, BSI. %DNHU 6WUHHW ,UUHJXODUV 3UHVV . (including the elusive Stephen Thompson) and 2014. viii + 192pp. $21.95 plus postage (pbk) actors, which is good, but here too are interviews Inspired by Christopher Morley’s childhood with designer Arwel Wyn Jones, composers David 45 Arnold and Michael Price, directors Paul McGuigan (hbk) and Toby Haynes, sfx master Jean-Claude Deguara, After exotic adventures in China and spooky and more, so we get a truly authoritative look at what ones in Ireland, Sherlock is sent to Oxford to study makes 6KHUORFN so successful.
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