Kuratierte Notizen & Neuigkeiten zur Kriminalliteratur | A sheet of notes & news about crime fiction
Kickstarter | Watson And Holmes Print
Die Kultur ist im Umbruch, erst recht ihre Finanzierung. Bei der Crowdfounding-Plattform Kickstarter wird zurzeit Geld für eine exklusive Ausgabe eines Comics gesammelt. Watson And Holmes soll der heißen und die erste Serie mit afro-amerikanischen Charakteren nach einer Sherlock-Holmes-Vorlage sein. Worum es genau geht, verrät Euch das Video und wenn Ihr unterstützen möchtet, hier ist der Link.
Ein alter Bekannter und neue Ideen, wie Bücher auf den Markt kommen können: Autorin Annelie Wendeberg sucht für ihre Krimireihe Kronberg Crimes Unterstützer. Nach dem ersten Roman The Devil’s Grin ist der zweite Teil ihrer Krimiserie geschrieben. The Fall, so der Titel des Romans, erwartet nun einen guten Lektor. Und genau hier kommen die Unterstützer ins Spiel. Wie Sie genau helfen können und was Annelie mit ihrer Sherlock-Holmes-Pastiche noch so plant, dass erfahren Sie auf der Crowdfunding-Seite Indiegogo. Klicken Sie doch mal rein.
»The suit, which stems from the estate’s efforts to collect a licensing fee for a planned collection of new Holmes-related stories by Sara Paretsky, Michael Connelly and other contemporary writers, makes a seemingly simple argument. Of the 60 Conan Doyle stories and novels in “the Canon” (as Sherlockians call it), only the 10 stories first published in the United States after 1923 remain under copyright. Therefore, the suit asserts, many fees paid to the estate for the use of the character have been unnecessary.
But it’s also shaping up to be something of what one blogger called “a Sherlockian Civil War.” On one side is Leslie S. Klinger, a prominent lawyer from Malibu, Calif., and the editor of the three-volume, nearly 3,000-page New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, as well as an editor of the new collection. On the other is Jon Lellenberg, a retired Defense Department strategist and, for the past 30 years, the Conan Doyle estate’s hard-nosed American agent.«
Jennifer Schuessler
Whose property is Sherlock Holmes? Jennifer Schuessler reports about the so called “Sherlockian Civil War”, a battle over control of Conan Doyle’s estate and the Twitter hashtag #freesherlock. Read more at The New York Times.
»Systems Watson and Holmes are used as a framework for discussing concepts in psychology, with examples from the Holmes canon used as evidence.«
Sophie Scott
Can Sherlock Holmes help us to become better thinkers? Sophie Scott about the book Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova. Her review at The Guardian / The Observer.
»Thinking like Sherlock Holmes isn’t just a way to enhance your cognitive powers. It is also a way to derive greater happiness and satisfaction from life.«
Maria Konnikova
An essay by Maria Konnikova about Sherlock Holmes and what the detective can teach us about observation, attention, and happiness. Get smart at slate.com.
»Doyle introduced Holmes 125 years ago in a longish short story published in a Christmas annual, later reshaped into a shortish novel called A Study in Scarlet—one of the first books outside sectarian literature, incidentally, in which Mormons appear.«
Gregory McNamee
Gregory McNamee about the 125th anniversary of Sherlock Holmes. His article at Kirkus Review.
»What is going on in Meiringen, I now realise, is that by dressing up and performing strange rituals on mountainsides, some human beings are expressing their need for an everyman redeemer, who is nonetheless convincingly particular, while other human beings are enjoying an absurdly pointless race in “support” of a “brand” whose “values” cannot in any real sense be said to exist except in the minds of its marketing managers.«
Edward Docx
Edward Docx about the curious case of the Sherlock Holmes Pilgrims in Meiringen. His report at prospectmagazine.co.uk.
Philosopher and writer John Gray about the detective and how to solve problems in the style of Sherlock Holmes. His essay and podcast at bbc.co.uk.
Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure – British Library to publish Arthur Conan Doyle’s previously unseen Arctic diary.
The British Library is to publish the never before seen diary written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1880 during his voyage as ship’s surgeon on the Arctic whaler the Hope, which has been hidden from public view for over a century. This dramatic and vivid account of Conan Doyle’s dangerous and bloody Arctic adventure at age 20 gives us new insight into the development of the young author who went on to create Sherlock Holmes. He tested himself, overcame the hardships, and, as he wrote later, ‘came of age at 80 degrees latitude’.
More on this story at guardian.co.uk and at the press release by the British Library.
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