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Apr 12 #1 Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press The Exhibits Development Group has released an exhibition announcement for "Sherlock Holmes: The Science of Deduction", an interactive exhibition that will tour science museums from 2013 to 2016; the project, which is licensed by the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Estate Ltd., is impressive, and you can view the announcement at . Click on the two links at the bottom of the blue field to see the concept document and the brochure. The tour will begin at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Port- land in 2013. If you would like to receive the company's e-mail announce- ments, send a request to Angela Noble . Brad Keefauver's weird and wonderful "Sherlock Peoria" web-site celebrates its tenth anniversary on June 12, when Brad plans to shut it down. There's still time to visit the web-site and see how imaginative it is; his announcement of the impending post-Sherlock Peoria world was made in his blog on Mar. 4. The April issue of The Gaslight Gazette, published by The Survivors of the Gloria Scott, opens with an appropriately imaginative protest; ask editor David J. Milner at for an electronic copy of the issue. Later: Brad reports that he has decided to keep his web-site up on the In- ternet for the foreseeable future, but will abandon the weekly updates, go- ing for a more irregular format. Tune in to his web-site for news of what will happen. Brad recommends the Baker Street Babes as the new face of Sherlockiana, and they're at ; they have a podcast, and a sprightly theme song: "They call us the Irregulars, but baby, we're always on time. Baker Street Babes always leave the rest of them behind. So when Scotland Yard, they send you home, you feel like you're losing your mind. If this quotidian world has got you cryin', won't you 221 be mine?" Sorry about that: is the correct URL for the web-site of The Société Sherlock Holmes de France, publisher of the Ironmongers Daily News (Mar 12 #7). "Masterpiece" is working hard at promoting the second season of "Sherlock": there's a web-site , and a Facebook page at , and there will be a live Twitter discussion during each of the three broadcasts, with the Baker Street Blog, the Baker Street Babes, Lyndsay Faye, and Les Klinger, @masterpiecepbs. A BOOK, by Mordecai Gerstein (New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2009; 48 pp., $16.99), is a charming book to read to children; grown-ups will enjoy it as much as their kids, and (of course) there is Sherlockian artwork. Compli- ments to Jennie Paton for spotting the book. "A Parliament of Lines" is the title of an exhibition at the City Art Cen- tre in Edinburgh (May 15 through July 8), showing the work of 15 contempor- ary Scottish artists, one of them Marie Harnett, who creates miniature pen- cil portraits. Three of them show Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, and Rachel McAdams, and you can see her portrait of Law at .
Apr 12 #2 The Fireman's Fund is one of the more unusual insurance compan- ies: they're the go-to insurer for the American entertainment industry, and they once insured the Loch Ness monster. They paid the stu- dio when the monster sank during filming of "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" (1970); the monster still lurks at the bottom of the loch, awaiting discovery by some intrepid diver who doesn't know about the history of the film. The N.Y. Times had an interesting article (Mar. 24) about the company, but without any mention of the monster . Don Hobbs has discovered a new language for Canonical translations: Friulan (spoken in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy): LIS AVENTURIS DI SHER- LOCK HOLMES was published in 2009 by the Società Filologica Friulana, which has a web-site at ; search for [doyle]. Pamela Bruxner ("The British Government") died on Mar. 28. She was a medi- cal secretary and was involved with several musical and literary societies; for many years she was meetings secretary of The Sherlock Holmes Society of London, and she edited or co-edited nine of the Society's expedition hand- books. Pam was an Honorary Member of the Society, and received her Inves- titure from The Baker Street Irregulars in 1998. "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is a delightful parody that was written by Steven Canny and John Nicholson in 2007; it will be performed by the Pen- guin Rep Theatre, May 18 through June 10. 7 Crickettown Road, Stony Point, NY 10980 (845-786-2873) . Add Uruguay to the list of countries that have Sherlock societies: Ana Fer- nández is the contact for The Blue Scarves' Society, and you can find them at . The name of the society is a tribute to the blue scarf that's worn by Benedict Cumberbatch in the BBC's "Sherlock" mini-series. Murder Squad is a collective of five excellent British writers, and Martin Edwards has edited their BEST EATEN COLD AND OTHER STORIES (Stroud: Mystery Press, 2011; 190 pp., £6.99/$12.95); one of the 13 stories is Edwards' own Sherlockian pastiche "The Case of the Musical Butler". Ted M. Cowell reports an article in the Daily Mail (Mar. 31) about "Sweeps, nomads, quacks, and crawlers: The exotic down and outs of Victorian London captured on camera in the 1870s" with some strik- ing photographs of what Holmes might have seen when he arrived in London as a young man. Carolyn and Joel Senter offer an imaginative "Vamberry the wine merchant" corkscrew (with a hand-engraved handle) for $42.50. And other interesting Sherlockiana. Hans Sodertalje has reported to The Baskerville Hall Club that Andrew Tay- lor's BÖCKER SOM FÖRÄNDRADE VÄRLDEN: 50 VIKTIGASTE BÖCKERNA GENOM TIDERNA (published in Sweden in 2009) includes an essay on EN STUDIE I ROTT. For those who don't read Swedish, that's BOOKS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD: 50 MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS OF ALL TIME and (of course) A STUDY IN SCARLET. Scandinav- ian books can be ordered on-line at .
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