Sherlockian and related links

amusing and unusual Sherlockian sites

The must-bookmark Sherlockian sites are Chris Redmond's Sherlockian.Net site, Les Moskowitz's Sherlockian Connection, and the Sherlock Holmes Society of London. (Unfortunately, Fred Porlock's massive Yoxley Old Place has inexplicably disappeared from the web as far as I know.)

Besides these major resources, there are lots of little Holmes pages sprinkled everywhere by no less devoted fans, which can be found by simply searching for "Sherlock Holmes" on any web search engine. I've collected some interesting sites that I liked enough to copy down their URLs, and I've numbered them chronologically, not in order of preference.

Links last checked on 26 May 2002. I will of course periodically go through checking these links, but as there are so many of them, I hope you'll help me out by reporting to me any broken links you find.

The categories are:
Holmes in Education, Holmes in other Fandoms, extra-canonical stories and items, and undiluted Sherlockiana.

     

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Holmes in Education

  1. Larry Meinert's Honors Geology class and Reggie Hudson's Survey of Astronomy class mix the study of science with Sherlock Holmes.
  2. The Journal of Chemical Education's April 2000 issue featured Chemical Adventures of Holmes
  3. The Yale New Haven Teaching Institute has an English literature course based on Holmes.
  4. The University of Chicago's Fall 1999 Write Site contains an essay by Amy Dahlquist about Holmes investigating how to write an introduction.
  5. A finance/stockmarket education site uses Holmes in the Case of the Missing Ten Pounds to teach investors about futures and options.

Holmes in other Fandoms

  1. Mark Bourne's pastiche The Case of the Detective's Smile featuring Lewis Carroll's Alice is utterly enchanting.
  2. Dave Scott's wonderful essay about Sherlock and Spock perfectly blends both worlds. Plus, he also has written a number of pastiches that mix Holmes with other quite charming characters.
  3. Paul Ingerson's SHaDoWS is about Holmes and Doctor Who.

extra-canonical stories and items

  1. Dennis Nowicki's 2nd Issue of Studium concerns Sherlock Holmes, memorabilia, and Victorian coinage.
  2. For a change of pace, the Arthur Conan Doyle Society is about ACD, not SH, and includes an analysis of the Cottingley Fairy hoax.
  3. The eloquent writer/actor John Sherwood recounts the details behind the Mystery Visits at the Victorian Villa Inn in Michigan, and he also provides numerous Sherlockian articles.
  4. Bert Coules' page on the BBC Radio Holmes series tells all about the wonderful series.
  5. The Pinkertons are online! While they are keeping the present secure, you can read in detail about their detective agency past, at the Crime Library.
  6. The PAO Magazine have a nice historical article on Conan Doyle and the Mystery of the Bullet-Proof Uniform.
  7. What a handy little thing the Dataflight Concordance Demo is for searching the canon! You might also wish to try out the Mr. Moon text search engine.
  8. For something rather different, there's Mary P. Van Deusen's Literary Song Videos.
  9. I have found a most intriguing, though sad, story about Holmes's death at Reichenbach--Robert J. Sawyer's You See But You Do Not Observe.
  10. The Adventures of Shirley Holmes was a TV adaptation of Holmes to modern-day life, in a live-action kids show.
  11. Someone has fabricated Sherlock Holmes's résumé using much detail from the actual canon.
  12. The website of A Sherlock Holmes Occasion sells a specially designed watch, but it also houses a fun Trivia Quiz and some very nice Sherlockian artwork. Most of all, it has a cool intro by Watson!
  13. Cool, a Holmes chess set!
  14. Check out PMH Publications' Sherlock Holmes the detective magazine.
  15. Maureen O'Brien's website about Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century is a wonderful compilation of information and canonical connections from the cartoon show from Scottish Television.
  16. For some highly entertaining salaciousness, visit JJ's Sexiest Lines in the Sherlockian Canon.
  17. For an excellent website about the recent Canadian adaptation of HOUN, and subsequent movies within that series, check out the Baker Street Dozen.
  18. I found a site with little Sherlock Holmes figurines.
  19. An odd article about artificial intelligence, I guess, the Reflections on a robotic Sherlock Holmes, discusses rendering the SILV "dog in the night-time" in proper logical form.

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undiluted Sherlockiana

  1. A Pure-Blooded, Well-Trained Foxhound's Holmes page is the absolute best, although Camden House runs a close second.
  2. Shradda Pai's Oh, You Don't Know Sherlock Holmes Yet! is a great resource for fans old and new.
  3. Meet Sherlock S. Holmes, D.D., a real person, on his webpage.
  4. Sheryl Franklin's Holmes site is particularly well-organized and attractive, with her own fine collection of Sherlock Holmes links.
  5. Lee Shackleford has an enjoyable collection of Sherlockian cartoons, pastiches, and other stuff.
  6. Tom Bayne's Gaslight on the Web discusses many aspects and incarnations of Holmes.
  7. Lloyd Rose's article about portrayers of Sherlock Holmes is no longer available on the Washington Post website. However, you might try looking up the March 1, 1998 article in your local library.
  8. The Head Llamas make excellent observations about canonical animals, including the infamous Giant Rat of Sumatra!
  9. The Gloria Scott provides fascinating insight into the Sherlockian phenomenon in Japan.
  10. The Maiwand Jezails are a Holmes society having a number of their members' learned papers online. They also have information on their as yet incomplete project to erect a lovely Sherlockian monument in Afghanistan. --Nevertheless, I giggle at calling the thing "The Erection."
  11. The Shoso-in Bulletin is an international Sherlockian magazine, boasting an intriguing variety of Sherlockian scholarship. Plus, on the less serious side, there are a number of amusing articles by Mel Hughes, particularly her "Pocketful of Trouble" in Volume 7.
  12. Sherlock 101 is a nice site by Hatty Doran about "How to become a Sherlockian".
  13. Mr. Frankland's site houses some short essays about topics such astronomy, the layout of 221B, and SCAN.
  14. Stackhurst's I hear of Sherlock everywhere contains some wonderful items about Holmes, in both the canon and the (Laurie King) kanon, and she has also created the Hounds Gallery of Noms.
  15. The University of Minnesota has an on-line edition of The Universal Sherlock Holmes.
  16. Mary Vivit runs the Hounds of the Internet Web Guide.
  17. Also using the title "The Yankee Holmes'rian", A Dusty (and Quite Disreputable) Bookshelf is the latest incarnation of a website featuring the musings of a teenage Sherlockian upon the canon and on varied film and TV adaptions of it.
  18. Memoirs of a Sherlockian Freak! features Holmes-related artwork.
  19. The content of Thorney's webpage is hard to describe since it changes so often, usually according to whatever topics are under discussion on certain Holmes-related mailing-lists.
  20. Chris Willis's Crime, Class and Gender in the 1890s Strand Magazine article concerns the famous magazine in which the Holmes short stories were originally printed.
  21. Doug Warwick's play, Sherlock Holmes and the First English Gentleman, has an unusual premise involving Holmes's death in FINA and the fossil hoax of the Piltdown Man, (fictionalized as the "Plateau Man" in Holmes's telling of the mystery). Not bad, but unfortunately, Warwick put songs into the play!
  22. Jenny Newbury's remarkable Sherlock Holmes Atlas, attempts to show geographical locations, both real and fictional, from the canon.
  23. AMK's collection of quotations, includes the canon, as well as apocrypha like "The Field Bazaar" and "The Man with the Watches"

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