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This looks a really good project. Mark annoyed me in interview a bit, because he brought god into it! But then he redeemed himself, by calling out the hyperbole over Keir Starmer.

Photos: Mark Gatiss and More in Rehearsal For THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI https://www.broadwayworld.com/westend/article/Photos-Mark-Gatissand-More-in-THE-RESISTIBLE-RISE-OF-ARTURO-UI-20260327

It's a rather funny WTF-Moment

Maybe I should have checked it out a few years back when I needed to use my cellphone most of the time! Welcome to Sherlock Forum!

Hello, Brian, and welcome to Sherlock Forum! If you're looking for the exact same edition that you had before, I'd suggest you look in some used-book stores, especially those quirky old places with an eclectic assortment of books for sale. And keep re-checking those stores every now and then (because their stock is likely to change considerably over time). You can also check some online used-book sellers, some of whom list their wares on Amazon, so that could be a good place to start (though you'll probably need to wade through an awful lot of newer editions in the process). If you're looking for any collection with the same contents as that one, Ouidis has some good info above. And if some other criteria are important to you, please elaborate and we'll do our best to help.

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My name Is Brian Patrick Giles. I once owned a Copy Of "The Complete Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes" by A. Conan Doyle and It contained All of the original Sherlock Holmes Stories including Hound of the Baskervilles and had no publication date on it. I Would like to find another copy of it since mine was lost in a storage unit. Could you point me in the right direction? Thanks, Brian P. Giles

Series 2 has now been filmed and will be out sometime later this year. There will be a bit of a Sherlock reunion going on as Rupert Graves is in it although I don’t know if his appearance is as an ongoing character or just a one off. Also appearing are some very familiar names (in the UK at least): Simon Callow; Miranda Richardson, Jason Watkins and Claire Skinner. I’m sure that it will be worth the wait.

That is a fair assessment!

The US system of healthcare may be many things but „elementary“ sure isn’t a term I‘d use for it.

You are absolutely right about the effect of health insurance on medical costs. Insurance inserts itself between the consumer of services (the patient) and the provider of services (the doctors, hospitals, etc.). This distorts the normal economic relationship between consumers and providers. As you say, the consumer does not care about the cost of care because someone else is paying for it. This is counter to almost every other economic transaction there is. Since the consumer doesn't care, the provider can charge whatever it wants. The only limitation is now how much the insurance company is willing to pay, which leads to numerous mechanisms to control costs, such as copayments, coinsurance, allowable amounts, preferred provider organizations, HMOs and managed care networks, etc. Elementary, my dear Watson! 🙂

The dollar sure ain't what it used to be! But I don't think that's the whole story -- when I was born, my parents didn't have medical insurance, even though my father had a union job -- apparently insurance wasn't a "thing" yet. But even with just that single blue-collar job, they paid the hospital and the doctors themselves -- without going broke! I'm pretty sure the current high cost (even adjusted for inflation) of medical care is largely due to the prevalence of insurance -- because A} people feel like the care is "free" so they often go to the doctor even when they could easily have cared for themselves at home (so the cost of insurance goes up to cover that), and B} every time insurance starts covering something new, the doctors and hospitals start pushing it. For example, most hospital rooms in the US used to be "semi-private" (two beds/patients per room), but once insurance companies started covering private (one-bed/patient) rooms, the hospitals remodeled, because they could get paid more per square foot with private rooms, even though the cost per patient was higher. And of course the patients didn't complain, because they were now getting what had been a luxury at no extra cost to themselves (except for higher insurance costs). Been years since I saw a semi-private room (and I don't even remember wards).

I remember the doctor coming to see me at home when I was a child. I also remember my mom paying him $5 or $10 for the visit -- and that wasn't a copayment!

Thanks for that historical reminder! Watson's write-up is historical in another way, too. I can't speak for the UK, but here in the US, doctors haven't made house calls since the 1960s.

Today is the 138th anniversary of the visit of the King of Bohemia to 221b Baker Street which touches off A Scandal in Bohemia. Watson writes: >> One night—it was on the twentieth of March, 1888—I was returning from a journey to a patient... <<

Hello, maharrashid, and welcome to Sherlock Forum! Thanks for the detailed information, and please make yourself at home.

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Presumably -- assuming she's the female client (Mary Morstan) in "Sign of the Four." Or maybe she was simply absent-minded (like ACD). Dorothy Sayers (who wrote the Lord Peter Wimsey stories) had an interesting explanation: Although Watson's middle name is never divulged, the initial is "H" -- which she conjectured stands for Hamish, which is the Scottish equivalent of James. So maybe Mary didn't like the name John, but she thought it was silly for an English man to have a Scottish name, so she just translated it. Now that you mention it, I agree. He does *not* seem to assume (as Holmes often does assume) that women are ipso facto ignorant and illogical -- nor does he write women as just like men except for the obvious. His female characters are generally quite believable individuals. Maybe that comes from his years as a physician and/or from his acquaintance with Dr. Joseph Bell, the med-school professor whose astute observations inspired ACD to invent Holmes. I, too, like the women you mentioned and the stories they were in (with the last two being "Scandal in Bohemia" and "Copper Beeches").

Hey, thanks for the reply, yeah I thought he probably just wanted them back together and wrote her and the practice out real quick lol. Watsons wife is I think called Mary? Or something like that I’m pretty sure, she lives in the house where the crime happened in the sign of four and Watson fell in love with her I think. I can’t really remember, sign of four was the first Sherlock story I read quite a few years ago but I didn’t like it so I never really read the others until I decided to give it another go last year, and I really like them, I skipped over sign of four when I restarted though. yeah I remember the James thing and thinking it was weird but maybe just a nickname for John, twisted lip was in adventures of Sherlock holmes I’m pretty sure, if not it was memoirs, so before empty house. i think Conan Doyle definitely can write interesting female characters, i liked the woman from the yellow face, the girl from study in scarlet, the lady who beat Sherlock in the one about the king, and I thought the girl and the story about the couple who made the woman they employed look like there daughter whilst keeping their daughter locked up. But I don’t think he was very interested in Mrs Watson I suppose.

Hi there, Crazycat, and welcome to Sherlock Forum! My own best guess regarding why Holmes made that comment in "Empty House" is that when ACD submitted the story to his publisher, he had totally forgotten that Watson was married (presumably because, as you point out, the stories always focussed on Holmes & Watson). So the publisher said wait a minute, you can't just have Watson moving back in with Holmes -- what about Mrs. Watson?! At which point ACD stuck in that one reference to Watson's bereavement (and promptly forgot about it, I suspect). The late Mrs. Watson was apparently the female client from "Sign of the Four," who became engaged to Watson by the end of that story. Been a while since I read any of the original Holmes stories, so the only other reference to a wife that I recall just offhand is the one who addresses him as "James" at the beginning of "Man with the Twisted Lip" -- do you recall whether that was before or after "Empty House"?

Hey! im just reading ‘the return of Sherlock Holmes’ and in ‘the adventures of the empty house’ and its very heavily implied that watsons wife died? I get the vibe that Conan Doyle basically wanted to reset the canon and move Watson and Holmes’s back in together and ditch Mrs Watson and the practice. I’m just wondering if her death ever comes up again basically, whilst reading I keep thinking about if either of them is going to bring it up, but they haven’t yet. I suppose the in universe explanation is that Watson publishes these telling so wouldn’t want to put to much of his personal life into them?

Thanks, J.P.! If you happen to come across any online videos from that event, please let us know.

Mark at Stratford Literary Festival: https://www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/events/mark-gatiss

Poor fellow -- I don't feel sorry for him! I hardly know any Chinese. Do you know if an English translation is available? I think that you might can find some English version on Amazon Kindle, but there were some version have the title english but content chinese:)

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