Idlefellow
West of the East and East of the West
"It was on this day in 1887 that Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were first revealed to readers in the pages of Beeton's Christmas Annual in the novella A Study in Scarlet. A mildly successful physician named Arthur Conan Doyle had written a story about a detective who was also a violin collector, philosopher, and amateur chemist. Conan Doyle had learned the basics of writing a short story from studying the works of Guy de Maupassant and learned the art of writing logically and with precision from his study of medical journals."
A pipeful of shag tobacco in an oily, blackened clay whilst listening to a nice violin concerto might be appropriate today.
A pipeful of shag tobacco in an oily, blackened clay whilst listening to a nice violin concerto might be appropriate today.