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'Never was such a fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures.' ('The Red-Headed League') #NationalCameraDay
'I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of everyday life.'
According to Jean-Pierre Crauser, 'The Red-headed League' began #OTD 1890. https://t.co/lGz3p78njA
'But about a month ago, at the end of June, I saw for the first time signs of trouble. One day my wife received a letter from America. I saw the American stamp.' ('The Dancing Men') https://t.co/NrATgQP4r8
'It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a bloodletting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law.' Both Baring-Gould & Christ start 'The Three Garridebs' #OTD 1902. https://t.co/65vN8L7UuE
'I don't think that any of my adventures with Mr Sherlock Holmes opened quite so abruptly, or so dramatically, as that which I associate with The Three Gables.' William Baring-Gould dates the story as beginning #OTD 1903.
Floyd Gottfredson, who drew the Mickey Mouse comic strip from 1930 to 1975, born #OTD 1905.
'Shoscombe Old Place' the final Sherlock Holmes story, appeared in Liberty magazine #OTD 1927. It, and all of the Canon, go out of copyright at the stroke of midnight on 1 January 2023. #abouttime
'When the World Screamed,' perhaps the greatest Prof. Challenger short story, appeared #OTD 1928 in Liberty Magazine. https://t.co/4XDAGkflLu
Baker Street: A Musical Adventure of Sherlock Holmes previewed #OTD 1965 at the Broadway Theatre, New York. https://t.co/3wqiahrotB
The 58th story in the Canon, 'The Retired Colourman', first appeared in Liberty Magazine #OTD 1926. https://t.co/pfJ6OWHoqw