Hints and tips:
...Heaphy, head of William Blair’s value equity team....
...Other pleasures include pieces that function as introductions to her novels and a delicious Sherlock Holmes pastiche....
...“The Spy Who Loved Me has a good inscription too, to writer William Plomer, who was instrumental in setting Fleming’s career off.”...
...The Conran Shop’s William sofa, designed by Damian Williamson in 2010, is a beautiful thing....
...Arthur Conan Doyle lived in Tennison Road, Norwood, setting for one of the first Sherlock Holmes stories....
...It is the same dichotomy embodied in the works of De Quincey, Baudelaire, Rimbaud and later in Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, the flâneur as student of human nature, able to lose himself in the city and...
...However, Labour are 7-1 outsiders to win the seat, according to bookmakers William Hill, with the Tories at 4-6, and the Lib Dems at 5-4 — suggesting a two-horse race....
...“The great revelation of this place is that William Hogarth looks exactly like [tough-guy actor] Ross Kemp.”...
...They empower us to don deerstalker hats and smoke curly pipes, à la Sherlock Holmes. Some mysteries are reasonably easy to dispel....
...Le Corbusier’s 1959 Grand Confort LC3 has attracted a new following thanks to its cameo as the thinking place of Benedict Cumberbatch in the Sherlock Holmes BBC TV series....
...Stage adaptations were mounted at the turn of the century, with Holmes portrayed by William Gillette, who was responsible for the line, “Elementary, my dear Watson”, words that are not otherwise canonical...
...I think some producers are sometimes criticised for casting stars when actually they’re terrific theatre actors who happen to be famous for doing Sherlock,” she laughs, referring to one of Cumberbatch’s...
...The playfulness at which Scott so excels (most notably as Moriarty in BBC-TV’s Sherlock) is here kept under a rigorously tight rein....
...Ed Williams, UK chief executive at PR firm Edelman, who worked alongside Ms Hunt at the BBC, says she is “charming, always on point but never prepared to be pushed around”....
...In his most recent novel, When It Grows Dark, William Wisting works on a case in 1983....
...But, so far, the price of her obsession does not seem too high if the worst we face are performances of Hamlet and endless Sherlock reruns....
...The Name of the Rose, made into a film, starred Sean Connery as an English priest, William of Baskerville, come to a northern Italian abbey to investigate a series of murders in the order of which he is...
...Sherlock Junior is my favourite Keaton. Cardiff Garcia Any of those as good as The General? Tyler Cowen Yes, I think so. I like Sherlock Junior better than The General, so I’ll say Chaplin....
...Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances, by Neil Gaiman, Headline, RRP£18.99/William Morrow, RRP$26.99, 352 pages...
...Unplanned Journey occasionally echoes the fictional memoir of Logan Mountstuart — peripatetic protagonist of William Boyd’s novel Any Human Heart....
...For all the advances in forensic science, some aspects are still reminiscent of the tactics deployed by Sherlock Holmes and other gentleman sleuths....
...When William Faulkner was asked to name the three best novels of all time, he cited the book Dostoevsky described as “flawless”: “Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina.”...
...On a summer’s Saturday in London around 1900, you could have stood on various boundaries watching Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes), AA Milne (of Winnie the Pooh), PG Wodehouse (of Jeeves),...
...Or is he, like his great predecessor William Faulkner (a clear influence), using the trappings of the crime novel for literary ends?...
...Other people can be Sherlock Holmes – I’m very lucky if I can be Dr Watson.” Gove’s friends say he means every word he says and that he acknowledges he is not very popular....
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