Earlier this week I sat down with Burt Wolder of “I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere” and we talked for an hour about parodies and pastiches. We had a fine chat, and I was really impressed with his questions. We talked not only about Sherlock, but about movies and books in general. Turns out he’s a […]
After a long delay, we return to “The Adventures of Shylock Homes,” written in 10 parts by John Kendrick Bangs during 1903. Episodes one through five were published a few years ago. Number 6 — “Mr. Homes Solves a Question of Authorship” — was published in the first volume of Edwardian-era pastiches. Number 7 was […]
After a long delay, we return to “The Adventures of Shylock Homes,” written in 10 parts by John Kendrick Bangs during 1903. Episodes one through five were published a few years ago. Number 6 — “Mr. Homes Solves a Question of Authorship” — was published in the first volume of Edwardian-era pastiches. Number 7 was […]
After a long delay, we return to “The Adventures of Shylock Homes,” written in 10 parts by John Kendrick Bangs during 1903. Episodes one through five were published a few years ago. Number 6 — “Mr. Homes Solves a Question of Authorship” — was published in the first volume of Edwardian-era pastiches. These episodes recount […]
During the year 2021, I want to get back into the habit of publishing a Sherlock Holmes parody that could have made it into the 223B Casebook series if I had found it sooner. This time, thanks to the Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia website, I’ll provide a few notes to “Herlock On The War,” a […]
Welcome to the fifth installment of “The Adventures of Shylock Homes” by John Kendrick Bangs. (Read the first one here.) Bangs wrote 10 of these installments of Shylock’s adventures in the underworld for American newspapers in 1903. In this episode, he takes on Rip Van Winkle. It was not many days after the amusing discomfiture […]
Welcome to the fourth installment of “The Adventures of Shylock Homes” by John Kendrick Bangs. (Read the first one here.) Bangs wrote 10 of these installments of Shylock’s adventures in the underworld for American newspapers in 1903. In this episode, he matches wits again with his nemesis LeCoq, involving the solution of an historical mystery. […]
Welcome to the third installment of “The Adventures of Shylock Homes” by John Kendrick Bangs. (Read the first one here, and the second one here.) Bangs wrote 10 of these installments of Shylock’s adventures in the underworld for American newspapers in 1903. In this episode, he meets the Arthurian knight Lohengrin, who needs Homes’ help […]
Welcome to the second installment of “The Adventures of Shylock Homes” by John Kendrick Bangs. (Read the first one here.) Bangs wrote 10 of these installments of Shylock’s adventures in the underworld for American newspapers in 1903. In this episode, he meets with other detectives, including LeCoq, a fictional detective created by Émile Gaboriau, a […]
This is the first in a series of Shylock Homes parodies written by John Kenneth Bangs for the newspapers. Over the next eight Wednesdays, we’ll throw another one up. Only one of them I know has been published, so the rest of these haven’t been seen since their initial publication. Enjoy! The ways of spirits […]