Another week and yes I’m back and finishing up the GOOD the bad and the Ugly.
As you might have noticed all the pictures are about Westminster Abbey…the main picture give you an idea of just how old some of these buildings are ….look at the carving on either side…the long years have worn things away much of the one on the left….if wonders why I love London…the ancient building still standing is one of those reasons…
and of course we’ll give you a few Droughlander hints as well.
‘My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don’t know.’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Glass Orb on Star Hanger Decorative Table Top (262644413624)
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Get yourself prepared for Claire’s return (to the past) or departure (from the present) and then there’s Jamie’s bastard: http://www.chattsportsnet.com/entertainment/tv-shows/outlander-season-3-news-voyager-synopsis-revealed-jamie-denies-truth-about-his-bastard/12603/
Check out Cait/Claire and Tobias/Frank—in Glasglow/Boston….catch up —-it’s more on filming: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/outlander-stars-shoot-family-scenes-8885052
and I saved the bad news to last: https://www.cinemablend.com/television/1559599/outlander-season-3-is-definitely-going-to-premiere-late
world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-The Hound of the Baskervilles
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I THOUGHT TODAY
we might investigate fictional Detectives….
FIRST UP—THE AMATEUR:
Like Miss Marple—I consider her the good….she appears regularly on PBS series.
Her name is Jane and she is a creation of Agatha Christie–in 12 novels and 20 stories. She is of course English–all the best detective are you know…she elderly and is from a Village called St. Mary Mead which is also fictional. She was born—fully formed and elderly–in 1927 and has been about ever since. I was just watching one of her episodes this weekend where she advised a younger woman to not be so trusting–that she never was…not what one expects from the grandmotherly type lady who wanders thru her stories detecting in the most unobvious way.
‘You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-A Scandal in Bohemia
I always loved Jessica Fletcher (and the fact that they actually published books under her name –Something that Castle seems to have picked up and continued on with–he also has books out in the real world with his picture on them and printed under his name)—I enjoyed the show best when it was set in mythical Cabot Cove—but after a few years they decided that they had to have seriously depleted the population of the fictional town with all the murders that were occurring there–heavens they had to be giving NYC a run for it’s money with the rate based on their population base. The show lasted 12 years and is definitely on my good list.
Other amateur detectives I’d include under good
Boston Blackie–a thief turned sleuth
Father Brown–another PBS show that’s not bad and the fact that it’s filmed in Cornwall adds charm for me. A priestly detective…since sin is his business and murder sin it all works for me.
Nancy Drew was one of my early introduction into the mystery genre and I still enjoy those old movies she’s featured in even though they’re before even my time…..yes I was born after moving pictures were invented—in fact after talkies came in so there.
‘It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-A Scandal in Bohemia
Then there’s the professional Detective…..and does any body embody this more than Bogie as Sam Spade?
Spade is sarcastic, wise cracking and bordering on the line between criminal and law abiding a majority of the time. The fictional character was unlike Bogart, blonde and appear fist in Black Mass (1929) with the most well known of his affairs being The Maltese Falcon where he does mess around with his partner’s wife while he’s at it. Dashiell Hammett’s hard boiled hero was a big hit especially in the 30s & 40s in fact the Maltese Falcon was first made in 1931 (Ricardo Cortez as Sam Spade) and again under the title Satan Met a Lady (Warner Bros., 1936) and finally the one we all remember in 1941.
‘There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-The Bascombe Valley Mystery
Before he was James Bond–the Irish heart throb wandered onto our screens as a kinda detective…seems like the lady (Laura–a real private detective) couldn’t compete against the more mucho male detectives so she invented Remington Steele and went about doing the work as one of his associates and then the charming con-man claims to be Steele and puts her in a bad place as if she denies it then she will have to produce the real one and of course. They solved mysteries and flirted through several years–he went on to Bond and the rest is history.
Other PI’s I’ve enjoyed over the years
Nick and Nora Charles–I remember this as a TV series with Peter Lawford…the wealthy and fashionable twosome who found bodies and matched them to their murders….
V.I. Warshawski I saw this one in the movies and enjoyed a dame that could play it a bit hard and mean as well.
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‘Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-The Sign of Four
Chapter 1: “The Science of Deduction”
And just for a mention there were the Warner Brother’s TV detectives. The first was set in LA and featured the father of our little lady in Remington Steele. (in real life not fictional) Roger Smith–who might be best known as being married to Anne Margaret since the 60’s and the biggest event on the show Ed “Kookie” Burns becames the hottest thing there was in teen lexicon–“Kookie, Kookie lend me your comb.” (don’t ask you had to have been there).
The next was Burbon St. Beat (I don’t have to tell you where that one took place.) This didn’t have any major person to stand out and the stories were OK but this was the least popular of the whole thing.
But that didn’t stop them from going onto smaller land masses but more exotic locations–Hawaiian Eye. This one gave us Troy Donahue and Connie Stevens (Cricket Blake, who also sings at the hotel’s Shell Bar) both went on to not very long but hot for awhile movie fame.
Donahue then went on to Surfside 6 set in Miami and pretty much more of the same.
and that thank goodness was the end of their detectives for awhile.
‘Come, Watson, come!’ he cried. ‘The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-The Adventure of the The Abbey Grange
‘There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before.’
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-A Study in Scarlet
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