The Transfixed Correspondence of Phoenix

They're HERE!

I'll be getting them packed for mailing in the next day or so. If I'm seeing you IRL in the next month (Tide-waiters and Watson's Tin Box), I will hand you your pin directly unless you let me know you want it sooner. Karen will also have some to sell at Holmes in the Heartland (July 24-26).

Sherlock Holmes' London: Into the Fog, a high-quality, fold-out map, has just been released by Herb Lester Associates. You can order it online from major sites or directly from HLA if you're in the UK.

Into the Fog: Sherlock Holmes' London leads readers through the capital as Holmes and Watson knew it ― a city of gaslight, theatres, grand hotels and shadowed alleys. This guide sets Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories against the map of London, tracing their adventures from Baker Street to Brixton, from Pall Mall to Paddington.

Real addresses stand beside the fictional: vanished lanes, demolished halls and invented squares, all layered onto the living city. Each entry places a story in its setting, exploring both the history and the imagination that shaped it.

Whether stepping into a Turkish bath on Northumberland Avenue, following a Christmas goose to Covent Garden, or glimpsing fragments of the Red-Headed League off Fleet Street, readers walk the blurred line between fact and fiction.

An essential companion for Sherlockians and London-lovers alike, Into the Fog reveals a city elusive, atmospheric and steeped in intrigue.

As of June 30, I will be managing our monthly Zoom meetings (1st Wednesday at 6:30 Arizona time) solely through e-mail and FB. If you want to get on the mailing list, please DM me.

Any budding writers in your family? Or do you enjoy writing for children?

Fortunately I'm not going to be in London to see this play. It sounds dreadful.

Sherlock Holmes at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre: A garbled take Sherlock Holmes at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre: A garbled take - 2/5 A baffling mix of previous takes on Holmes doesn’t have much of a clue

To keep the memory green!

April 26, 1900: the very first Sherlock Holmes adaptation, "Sherlock Holmes Baffled", is filmed by Arthur Marvin for the Biograph company in New York City. It was made to be viewed on the Mutoscope, the hand-cranked viewer found in penny arcades of the time. The film was only 59 seconds long. It wasn't copyrighted until 1903.

SHERLOCK HOLMES BAFFLED (1900) [HD] The very first Sherlock Holmes movie. Over 100 years old. Remastered in HD.About a minute long, this features Holmes confused by a disappearing bandit.Remast...

On this date in 1841, the first detective story, Edgar Allan Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue, was published.

He Is Everywhere!

In "How to Get to Heaven From Belfast" (from the creator of "Derry Girls"), there's a convenience store clerk wearing a deerstalker and reading a very well-worn copy of The Private Detective's Handbook. He sizes up his customers quite well.