Following Sherlock Holmes movements around London

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 20 November, 2009 to the comment subset

I can’t make up my mind about the upcoming Sherlock Holmes movie, the trailers I’ve seen so far suggest a far degree of slapstick. Still it will be interesting to see which parts of London – places that Holmes is known to have visited – feature in the film.

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Sherlock Holmes and the case of the lost deductive detectives

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 25 May, 2009 to the comment subset

Old fashion deductive detective work is largely behind the enduring popularity of Sherlock Holmes writes Melanie McDonagh.
The Sherlock Holmes novels, then, bring us back to a more human and edifying kind of crime, whose perpetrators aren’t identified by scraps of genetic material at the crime scene, mobile phone logs or the simple assumption that it [...]

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Floorplan of Sherlock Holmes’ Baker street house

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 6 June, 2008 to the design and art subset

Russ Stutler has created a floorplan of Sherlock Holmes’ home at 221B Baker street, in London, based on reading all the Sherlock Holmes books.
Amazing.
I can’t work out what’s in the wall cavity behind Dr Watson’s desk though.

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