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Texas lady who likes puzzles, fan fiction, cozy mysteries, Sherlock Holmes, Arrested Development, Barbie, Scooby Doo, and other various obsessions. I also occasionally try cooking to recreate my mom's Vietnamese recipes. https://cress4.blogspot.com/

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Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 8h

Of course, Watson loves Holmes's elegant hands and fingers the most, but apparently he doesn't mind looking at others. :)

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah super creepy, and he brings up phrenology.

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 11h

Watson's got a thing for hands.

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 22h

I find it weird that Watson so frequently gets up to leave when clients arrive, as if they haven’t been working together for several years now. But I guess it’s a good excuse for Holmes to ask him to stay

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 1d

I still think Holmes is a backhanded jerk in this. He lead Watson on with his interjections like "Good", "Excellent", and "Perfectly sound" while W was doing his deducing. Then Holmes makes his conductor of light speech to smack him down. Cruel bastard.

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 1d

Yay! Good choice for spookiness.

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 1d

It's Silver Blaze. It masks the strong taste of powdered opium, used to drug a stableboy so he'll sleep through the horse being taken out of the stables.

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 3d

I think only radio dramas have done every story. I listening to the BBC Radio ones now, then I’ll go through Imagination Theatre ones

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 3d

I love Wishbone

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 3d

That story also has Holmes saying that Watson “deserted me for a wife.” Is it possible he was sending Watson a message, “look at this guy, fighting hard to reunite with Godfrey. He didn’t desert him.”

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 3d

As for the cipher, in Valley of Fear, Watson suggests that the book is the Bible, but Holmes says there’s no standardized edition. It was the Whitacker’s almanac instead

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 3d

Crooked Man had a Bible reference to David and Bathsheba

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 4d

Cool I just reread the story last night. Godfrey and Jimmie get a happy ending!

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 4d

I liked the lady doctor Grace Hart

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 6d

Holmes and Watson both dine at Simpson's in "The Illustrious Client." The 2nd time, Watson says "we dined once more at our Strand restaurant."

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 7d

Tim McInnerny also plays a good part in this movie

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 7d

I’m hoping they’ll release the restored films on DVD or online so we can see them.

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 9d

I haven't read them, though I've seen the Netflix movies and liked them. I guess they have made some changes from the books though.

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 9d

Sherlockians even disliked some of the original stories, such as in the Casebook, claiming that Watson didn't write those, and it was some other spurious author.

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 9d

In Sherlockian world, only the original Doyle stories are canon, and of course they are referred to as Watson's stories; Doyle is only his literary agent, and at most, a co-author on things like the Mormon history in Study in Scarlet. The "scholarly papers" were mock literary criticism.

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 9d

It's charming and fun. Her name is Charlotte Holmes and she usually goes by "Charlie" but after she becomes a better detective, her colleagues start calling her "Charlock" in a nod to her famous ancestor. In one episode she goes to London and visits a Sherlock Holmes museum. I love her Watson too.

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah I hate serial killer genre

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 10d

open.substack.com/pub/sherlock...

INHERITING THE GAME—MADEMOISELLE HOLMES

THE FRENCH REINVENTION OF SHERLOCKIAN LEGACY

open.substack.com

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 10d

deadline.com/2025/10/clue... some kind of Clue TV show. Does this mean they’ve given up on remaking the movie?

Hot Package: ‘Clue’ Scripted Series From Dana Fox & Nicholas Stoller Hits TV Marketplace

A scripted adaptation of the classic murder mystery board game 'Clue' from Dana Fox and Nicholas Stoller has hit the TV marketplace.

Cress @cress221.bsky.social · 10d

I've only listened to a couple of the shows so far. I like the actors, and the plots are more straightforward and traditional than BBC Radio by Bert Coules, who adapts them more creatively. You can listen to their sample online or buy one of the single stories to see if you like their style.