Sherlock Holmes

 I'm hooked on listening to Sherlock Holmes audiobooks.. so I borrowed some related books. One was a ... rather a objective travel record of visiting many places related to SH, but not much personal..  it takes some skills to write a fun travel journal. 

"THE MAN WHO NEVER LIVED AND WILL NEVER DIE" is a witty title.  That's exactly him.  It had a copy of Strand magazine that had SH series.  As the literacy rate jumped, people wanted to read exciting stories for fun, and SH series was a perfect one as a captivating pastime.  Coincidentally, the first SH story was published in 1887, exactly 100 years before my birth year.  It makes me believe in a special link between me and the extraordinary defective. 

It was interesting also to know how London changed in the late 19th century.  There were horse-drawn carriages in the late 1890s, but taxis replaced them in a decade or so.  Also, revolutionary things emerged one after another, like telegram, electricity, express trains, deep chemistry knowledge.. the city was transforming so rapidly with new technologies that it became hard for Doyle to keep many of Holmes' methodologies to solve his client's problems.  That's why the era of SH is set in is rather short, although Doyle continued writing his stories quite some time. These kind of things... Intriguing.