Come watson the game is afoot

Not a word! Into your clothes and come! One is "quarry" or "spoils," and it would be the main meaning in Shakespeare's and Holmes' words. However, the other meaning of "game" is, "a diversion, pastime, or amusement; or a form of mental or physical competitive play, governed by specific rules and testing the skill, endurance, or luck of the participants.

Watson wrote the Canon" are rules of the game, and I do not want to change these rules. It would be impossible to play chess if you deny the rules of movement of the chess pieces. We can enjoy playing games when we adhere strictly to the rules. I was looking for the Sherlock Holmes answer. Let the fun begin. In Shakespeare. Learned something new today, the quote appears twice in Shakespeare!

Get a new mixed Fun Trivia quiz each day in your email. Greenberg would return to Sherlockiana in , again as co-editor, this time with Mike Resnick with the anthology, Sherlock Holmes in Orbit. Divided into four sections depending on the time period that stories are set in: Past in his own time , the Present, the Future and After Death, this anthology contains 26 stories that treat with Sherlock Holmes and the rest of the characters in science fictional terms.

A little uneven in terms of the quality and treatment, this is nonetheless an essential read for any Sherlockian not least for some stories that stand out. Sawyer — and other collections of Sherlock Holmes stories for a total of 28 of the most entertaining pastiches of Sherlock Holmes. But all of these are a topic for another day, another column. As is the subject of the many science fictional adventures of Sherlock Holmes on screen.

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