I was surprised by the relatively low ratings given to Thomas's Sherlock Holmes stories. I'm a fan of Doyle's SH and have been reading (and re-reading) them since I was in high school and I actually found several of Donald Thomas's Sherlock tales MORE entertaining and well-written than many of t...
Five tales:1 The Execution of Sherlock Holmes - elude noose when drugged and manacled in dank Newgate cell 2 The Case of the Greek Key - crack German codes3 The Case of the Peasenhall Murder - prove man innocent of slaying pregnant serving girl4 The Case of the Phantom Chambermaid - stop arsenic-...
This title; Cochrane: Britannia's Sea Wolf, was first published in 1978 but has now been re-released (1999) to the benefit of all who enjoy a fast-paced historical account. After reading this book I am amazed that it has taken nearly twenty years to be re-released. What a great story Mr. Thomas t...
587 E. Harris Ruddock, The Homoeopathic Vade Mecum, Roericke & Tafel, 1889, discusses the treatment of Egyptian ophthalmia at page 373. p. 621 ‘The Resolution of Enclitic δε’ was a problem in classical Greek grammar to which the subject of Robert Browning’s poem ‘The Grammarian’s Funeral,’ li...
In the very month of Gambier's court-martial, the first troops and ships of the so-called Walcheren expedition crossed the Channel. Their object was the destruction of French ships in the Scheldt, and the seizure of three arsenals and dockyards: Flushing, Antwerp, and Terneuse. Under the Earl of ...
His pride was to have been a boy at the most exalted Victorian school, Thomas Arnold’s Rugby. He would never admit—let alone discuss—the expulsion of one of his own pupils. Fortunately our client’s elder cousin, Galahad Douglas, had spent four years at King Alfred’s before graduating to Eton. He ...
Marshall Hall’s view of the Crippen case is given in Edward Marjoribanks, The Life of Sir Edward Marshall Hall, Victor Gollancz, 1929, pp.277-84. Marshall Hall believed that, had the defence been entrusted to him, ‘Crippen would have been convicted of manslaughter or of administering a noxious po...
Moran, formerly of Her Majesty’s Indian Army. However, you may care to include the following information in your files. I suggest that it is pertinent to the dossier of his younger brother, Colonel Sebastian Moran. He it was who died this morning on the gallows at Newgate Gaol for the “Park Lane ...