The Game’s Afoot

Posted by Miss Cellania in Everything Else on October 20, 2008 at 10:38 am



Arthur Conan Doyle first created the character of Sherlock Holmes in 1887. Today the detective is the subject of the mental_floss Lunchtime Quiz. Can you match eight Sherlock Holmes story titles to their plot lines? I couldn’t. Link


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7 comments to "The Game’s Afoot"

  1. Bell Pepper
    October 20th, 2008 at 10:50 am

    wooohooo.... 100%

    And I haven't read or watch Holmes since I was ten! I had such a crush on Jeremy Brett. Ummm, yeah I was a strange little girl.

  2. Sid Morrison
    October 20th, 2008 at 11:49 am

    Yeah, I got 100% as well. It wasn't too hard if you had ever read the stories. If you hadn't... well, then you are screwed.

    Yes, Jeremy Brett did a fine Holmes. That was a nice series ... decent production values all around and ((usually) reasonably close to the stories.

    It would have been great if Granada had produced adaptations of the entire "canon", but alas, Brett had to screw things up by dying. Bummer.

  3. TeaFizz
    October 20th, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    No... the game is a game and a foot is a foot...

  4. intelnm
    October 20th, 2008 at 5:44 pm

    i got one right and it was the first one

  5. Brian
    October 20th, 2008 at 8:17 pm

    3 out of 8. I have never read them but I used to watch them religiously with my mom when I was a kid. I will always remember the Edward Gory animation at the opening of PBS Mystery!

  6. Simon C
    October 21st, 2008 at 5:07 am

    Yeah - 100%! W00t! I thought they were going to do some of the lesser-known ones though - "The Bruce-Partington Plans" anyone???

  7. Sid Morrison
    October 21st, 2008 at 8:08 am

    The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans was interesting both in that it centered around secret submarine plans and Sherlock's even-smarter brother Mycroft Holmes figured int he plot. It would have been a good one on this list.

    Or how about any of the stories in the last series of stories, "The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes". The Casebook (1927) didn't come into the public domain (in teh US anyhow) until a couple of years ago, so the stories tend to be lesser known. They are also a little wackier [SPOILER ALERT!] including a story about a guy turning into a monkey from taking a drug derived from monkeys and another apart (seemingly anyhow) a vampire. Happy reading!


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