PACG Book Club - Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Monday, May 18th at 5:30 pm via Zoom
The PACG Book Club will meet in May via Zoom, using Alta Price’s Zoom license. Contact her if you need instructions on how to use Zoom. Also, please RSVP to Alta to let her know you are coming so she can send you a special invitation (by email) from inside the Zoom meeting in case you have trouble joining the meeting.
Click on Alta Price to RSVP or with questions.
The PACG Book Club is reading selected stories from Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. We will also discuss the documentary “How Sherlock Changed the World,” which is available for free on Amazon Prime. The film interviews modern day forensic scientists about the impact the Sherlock Holmes stories had on the development of our modern methods of crime scene investigation.
Reading selections:
The Sherlock Holmes - the Ultimate Collection kindle book is available for 99 cents. It is very lengthy, but includes all of the Sherlock Holmes stories and novellas, in order of publication. Feel free to choose your own version, as long as it includes the stories below. We are choosing selections that pair nicely with the documentary. The stories are:
The documentary:
"How Sherlock Changed the World" has two episodes, each about 55 minutes in length. If you have an Amazon Prime account, you can watch them for free. If not, they cost $2.99 apiece. I also found them free at PBS, although I think that is only if you contribute a certain amount to Public TV. Again, contact Alta if you have trouble finding the documentary.
We will discuss both the book and the documentary, but if you don’t have time to read and watch, feel free to join the discussion anyway.
Click on Alta Price to RSVP or with questions.
Click on Alta Price to RSVP or with questions.
The PACG Book Club is reading selected stories from Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. We will also discuss the documentary “How Sherlock Changed the World,” which is available for free on Amazon Prime. The film interviews modern day forensic scientists about the impact the Sherlock Holmes stories had on the development of our modern methods of crime scene investigation.
Reading selections:
The Sherlock Holmes - the Ultimate Collection kindle book is available for 99 cents. It is very lengthy, but includes all of the Sherlock Holmes stories and novellas, in order of publication. Feel free to choose your own version, as long as it includes the stories below. We are choosing selections that pair nicely with the documentary. The stories are:
- A Study In Scarlet - because it is referenced in the documentary
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - A Scandal in Bohemia - this one was the actual first story that Conan Doyle got published about Holmes (it was re-published in this book again later)
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Homes - the Final Problem - Conan Doyle kills off his detective in this story so that the author could write other books he was more interested in
- The Hound of the Baskervilles - due to public outrage over the loss of their hero, Holmes, Doyle revives his detective
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Empty House - Doyle explains what happened at the Reichenbach Falls in the Final Problem
The documentary:
"How Sherlock Changed the World" has two episodes, each about 55 minutes in length. If you have an Amazon Prime account, you can watch them for free. If not, they cost $2.99 apiece. I also found them free at PBS, although I think that is only if you contribute a certain amount to Public TV. Again, contact Alta if you have trouble finding the documentary.
We will discuss both the book and the documentary, but if you don’t have time to read and watch, feel free to join the discussion anyway.
Click on Alta Price to RSVP or with questions.
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