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Anyhow, I’d rather have you than Scotland Yard, Mr. Holmes,” said [Sergeant Coventry]. “If the Yard gets called into a case, then the local loses all credit for success and may be blamed for failure. Now, you play straight, so I’ve heard.”
“I need not appear in the matter at all,” said Holmes to the evident relief of our melancholy acquaintance. “If I can clear it up I don’t ask to have my name mentioned.”
“Well, it’s very handsome of you, I am sure. And your friend, Dr. Watson, can be trusted, I know”.
“I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were submitted to him.” -The Adventure of the Specked Band
And we have no keener pleasure than reading you on the subject, sir.
30 dias de livros| Melhor livro que leu para escola — O Vale do Terror.
Não me lembro muito bem da estoria desse livro, só sei que ele é incrível e bastante assustador.
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS MAGNIFICENCE.
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From Arthur Conan Doyle…
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Hey London peeps, check this out!
Adventure of the Pictured Pages
Date: May 11 & 12, 2013
Time: 1pm - 5pm
Location: Foyer, Roberts Building, Malet Place, London, WC1E 7JE
The Adventure of the Pictured Pages is a mystery game that gives an overview of the birth of the illustrated magazine at the end of the nineteenth century, while surveying contemporary responses to photographs, their mass-market production, and popularization.
Join two Holmes scholars as they unpick the birth of Conan Doyle’s creation, examine his critical heritage, and explore his enduring legacy on literature, popular culture, and ways of reading in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries!
Workshops
Saturday May 11th
2pm - 3pm: Adventure of the Picture Pages: Workshop (Room 110, Roberts Building)
3pm - 4pm: Adventure of the Picture Pages: Workshop (Room 106, Roberts Building)
Sunday May 12th
1pm - 2pm: Adventure of the Picture Pages: Workshop (Room 110, Roberts Building)
FREE - just drop in!
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The Art of Reading
Date: May 11 & 12, 2013
Time: 1pm - 5pm
Location: UCL Art Museum, South Cloisters, Wilkins Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
How do researchers develop and communicate their ideas? What inspires them?
Join us at UCL Art Museum for this series of short drop-in reading groups curated by UCL researchers, lecturers and graduate students who will share aspects of their fascinating research in the arts, sciences and humanities.
Their various interpretations of “reading” art, text, the body and the city will give shape to performances, group discussions, demonstrations and other activities.
Sunday 12 May
3pm-4pm: Tom Ue, Sherlock Holmes and art
FREE - just drop in!
if you ever feel like everything in your life just went the wrong way, imagine Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at the Sherlock Holmes museum
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle came to 221B Con. He didn’t have much to say, but he made sure to judge everyone equally.
Did you take a photo with Sir Arth? Link us, we’re collecting them!
