One of the more successful Holmes pastiches in that the writer has a distinctive take on Holmes rather than simply replicating Conan Doyle’s version. It’s a version of Holmes recognisable from the original stories but which takes account of psychological theories and analysis over the years – Ni...
March 1895. London. A month of strange happenings in the West End. First there is the bizarre murder of theater critic Jonathan McCarthy. Then the lawsuit against the Marquess of Queensberry for libel; the public is scandalized. Next, the ingenue at the Savoy is discovered with her throat slashed...
The 1972 Writers Guild strike changed my life dramatically. There’s lots to be said about the Guild, but for the moment I’ll confine myself to the strike itself, which required me to picket outside the (then) Goldwyn studios at Santa Monica and Formosa for three hours a day, four days a week, car...