So there you have it as good a reason as any to post another Holmes and Watson episode this week, the last being “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot” from way back in November of 2013. Do so well, and that limned character will take you where the story needs to take you.” If you can create a character, you can put that unique character into the jigsaw structure of a solid narrative. If you can read the tells, you can create a character. They’re nothing but Holmes, even when they’re doing something other than Elementary or Sherlock Holmes. All of it, not just The Hound of the Baskervilles, but the entire canon, to learn the methodology of Sherlock Holmes, of not just seeing, but observing: ratiocination! Which is what all TV series are today. “When people ask what books they should read, I reply that they should read the Arthur Conan Doyle/Sherlock Holmes canon. Harlan said of Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective creation: I chose a Sherlock Holmes episode this week after running across the following passage from a recent Harlan Ellison interview. Sherlock Holmes aired “The Red Headed League” on October 19, 1954.
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