Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press 2012 - Red Circle of ...

Jul 12 #4 Pam Verrey spotted YOUNG MISS HOLMES, CASEBOOK 1-2 (New York:
Seven Seas, 2012; 384 pp., $16.99), the English translation of
Kaoru Shintani's manga CHRISTIE: HIGH TENSION (2007-2008); Christie is the
niece of Sherlock Holmes, and the book offers her versions of some of her
uncle's recorded cases. There's a web-site with cover and interior artwork
at ; CASEBOOK
3-4 is due later this year.
Plan well ahead: Jeffrey Hatcher's play "Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure
of the Suicide Club" will be performed at the Park Square Theater from June
7 through July 14, 2013; 20 West 7th Place, Minneapolis, MN 55102 (651-291-
7005) .
Evan Lewis' "Skyler Hobbs and the Rabbit Man" (a comic mystery about a mod-
ern would-be Sherlock Holmes) was published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Maga-
zine (Feb. 2010), and won the Mystery Writers of America's Robert L. Fish
Memorial Award (for best first short story by an American author); his Sky-
ler Hobbs and the Garden Gnome Bandit" is in the Sept.-Oct. issue of EQMM.
Jean M. White died on July 14. She started her career in journalist as a
city desk reporter at the Washington Post in 1953, and worked for the paper
for almost 30 years as a writer, editor, and reviewer, reporting often on
Sherlockian books and on Sherlockians.
Total-E-Bound Publishing, obviously aware of the success of 50 SHADE OF
GREY, has launched a series of Clandestine Classics, presenting "classics
as they have never been seen before," and taking readers "behind the closed
bedroom doors of our favorite, most beloved British characters. One of the
classics, needless to say, will be A STUDY IN SCARLET, by A. C. Doyle and
Sarah Masters, due later this year .
Sherlock at the Olympics? Not quite, but almost, if you were watching the
BBC on July 27, when they aired a nice 4-minute video about London narrated
by Benedict Cumberbatch . Thanks to
Debbie Clark for the report.
The Conan Doyle material owned by Mary Jakeman, who worked for the family
from 1909 to 1932, brought nice prices at Sworders on July 10 (Jun 12 #4).
The star of the sale was a signed copy of the first American edition of THE
HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, estimated at £400-800, which was sold for £3,900
at the auction.
Smithsonian magazine's interesting "Design Decoded" blog had two Sherlock-
ian entries in July, by Jimmy Stamp on "The Mystery of 221B Baker Street"
(with splendid photographs of various recreations of the sitting-room), and
by Sarah C. Rich on "The Deerstalker: Where Sherlock Holmes' Popular Image
Came From" (with many images of items in Glen Miranker's collection); the
blog is at .
Randall Stock continues to enhance the contents of his excellent "Best of
Sherlock" web-site, where he has updated his census of original artwork by
Sidney Paget: Sherlockian and non-Sherlockian illustrations, oil paintings,
and watercolors .