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deepad, you were right. Adelaide is mentioned in Holmes canon. It turns up twice, in "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" and "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange", neither of which is the coo-ee story.
I can no longer claim that I'd never heard of Adelaide before I moved here then.
Also, I find the title of the second story amusing now because there's a local and very expensive wine called Grange.
The Arthur Conan Doyle Concordance
I'm not rereading Doyle at the moment but I'm reading a great deal of material from roughly that era as I'll be giving a talk on Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen soon. At a minimum, I'll be reading or rereading Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Dracula, The Invisible Man, Jekyll and Hyde, and an Allan Quartermain novel or two. But closest to hand was The Insidious Fu Manchu which I also need to read. So far:
p1 I am convinced this is sloppy Holmes pastiche. A man fitting Holmes's physical description turns up at the home of his old friend, who just happens to be a struggling medical doctor and writer.
p2 I reach for the Web so that I may know what a hamadryad is (in this context, a king cobra)
p2 Our protagonist tells us that the survival of the entire white race is at stake. My reaction to this, as a white woman reading this 91 years after the book's first publication, is probably not what the author presumed.
p3 More Holmes pastiche. The prose is amazing. I begin to see where my convoluted conversational sentence structure comes from.
p4 Our first corpse.
p5 I decide to take a break by posting to LJ.
I'll have to do much better than this to finish my reading program in time.
deepad, you were right. Adelaide is mentioned in Holmes canon. It turns up twice, in "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" and "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange", neither of which is the coo-ee story. I can no longer claim that I'd never heard of Adelaide before I moved here then.
Also, I find the title of the second story amusing now because there's a local and very expensive wine called Grange.
The Arthur Conan Doyle Concordance
I'm not rereading Doyle at the moment but I'm reading a great deal of material from roughly that era as I'll be giving a talk on Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen soon. At a minimum, I'll be reading or rereading Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Dracula, The Invisible Man, Jekyll and Hyde, and an Allan Quartermain novel or two. But closest to hand was The Insidious Fu Manchu which I also need to read. So far:
p1 I am convinced this is sloppy Holmes pastiche. A man fitting Holmes's physical description turns up at the home of his old friend, who just happens to be a struggling medical doctor and writer.
p2 I reach for the Web so that I may know what a hamadryad is (in this context, a king cobra)
p2 Our protagonist tells us that the survival of the entire white race is at stake. My reaction to this, as a white woman reading this 91 years after the book's first publication, is probably not what the author presumed.
p3 More Holmes pastiche. The prose is amazing. I begin to see where my convoluted conversational sentence structure comes from.
p4 Our first corpse.
p5 I decide to take a break by posting to LJ.
I'll have to do much better than this to finish my reading program in time.
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Date: 2004-05-09 12:33 pm (UTC)why do some people get their fanfiction published as professional sequels, and other people but brilliant stuff online for free?
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Date: 2004-05-10 01:54 am (UTC)No, I haven't, although at one point I read quite a few Holmes pastiches and unofficial sequels. I have started reading the Mary Russell books more recently which are pretty good, much better than their Mary-Sueish premise might suggest.
why do some people get their fanfiction published as professional sequels, and other people but brilliant stuff online for free?
I imagine the process of being published commerically is tiresome -- someday I may get to find out first-hand :)