Ah, very useful link. *bookmarked* Thank you!

And I’m quite happy to hear about a new story in the Further Adventures! Especially if it’s being released on CD that soon. We don’t seem to have access to the majority of BBC radio in America, so I’ll be patient for an Amazon.co.uk package to gradually float across the Atlantic. :)

Oh, and you might be interested to know that a new two-part show in the Further Adventures series will air at Easter and be released on CD at the same time.

Keep up the good Sherlockian work.

Bert Coules

HI! Don’t mind if I totally fangirl out for a moment.

*fangirls out for a moment*

Good to know about the writing team. I shall have to examine credits more closely and apply said knowledge to future writings.

Cress,

Excellent to hear!

If you do listen to A Study in Scarlet (which was one of mine) you’ll find quite a lot of time given to the Mormon backstory, though it’s handled differently to the way it’s done in the novel. I hope that you can find at least some fun in my approach.

Bert Coules

Thank you. :) I hope my posts continue to be interesting. I have quite a lot of fun with Sherlock Holmes.

Purple

On the Speckled Band: it started when I was younger. Hopefully I know somewhat more now, so I might return to it; we’ll see.

Doyle definitely preferred spinning yarns than perfecting mystery puzzles/plot. In some stories I think he tried too hard at the latter, which doesn’t work out so well.

And five chapters of anti-Mormonism in Study? Ye gods. I’m going to have to double-check the Coules adaption to see how he handles that. It’s long enough that he may have felt he needed to include it, and that makes me *headdesk*. On the other hand, he has ejected entire scenes from stories before (generally for the better), and completely re-adapted others (also generally for the better), so I have high hopes.

Speaking of the movie, I agree that the plot had absurdities, such as how on earth Irene suddenly traveled from sewers up to Tower Bridge, but I didn’t consider it more egregious than Doyle’s works such as the notorious SPEC and HOUN (Doyle never bothered to explain how Stapleton was going to claim the Baskerville inheritance after having lived under a false name). Doyle was more about telling a good yarn than about constructing a foolproof mystery.

As for your current project, it sounds ambitious for you to begin reading/watching/listening to Holmes stuff again. I don’t have any Granada videos, so I can’t really participate in that portion, but would be interested to hear your point of view.

I want to warn you about something, though. The anti-Mormon stuff in STUD is actually five chapters long, not one. You may be thinking of SIGN, in which the murderer gets only one chapter to flashback about his past. Nope, STUD abandons Holmes & Watson for five whole chapters. No wonder so few people adapt this novel in whole! :)