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Annotating Sherlock

Leslie S. Klinger has been fighting a battle for years to bring the Sherlock Holmes canon entirely into the public domain, where it should have been for some time. Just before the beginning of the new year, a court judgment came down in favor of him and, if you ask me, history. In celebration, I highly recommend the following for the discerning Sherlockian's personal library: Klinger's magnificent annotations of the entire Sherlock catalogue, including the two-book short stories slipcase set and the separate third volume, which includes the novels.

Daily Grab 46: Where There's Smoke

I'm rather certain that I at least registered that Shout Factory was putting The Seven-Per-Cent Solution on Blu-ray today. It may have subconsciously driven my posting of Holmesian editions of this feature late last week.

Three years ago, I wrote a piece (for a now-deprecated feature) wishing that the screen adaptaion of Nicholas Meyer's apocryphal Holmes novel would come back into print on DVD at least, if not Blu-ray.

Nicol Williamson (Excalibur) plays the Great Detective, Robert Duvall plays one of the best screen Watsons (not joking), Laurence Olivier is kindly math professor Moriarty, and none other than Alan Arkin plays Sigmund Freud.

The Blu-ray/DVD Combo edition runs $25 on Amazon, and includes a freshly-recorded, 20ish-minute interview with Nicholas Meyer. If you're any sort of Holmes fan, just get the thing. I found a single copy in one store in Austin, so Amazon is your best bet.

I'm writing a review to go up on Ain't It Cool. I'm thrilled that this one is back out in the world.