{"id":11070,"date":"2024-07-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=11070"},"modified":"2024-07-22T19:00:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T23:00:41","slug":"the-dog-that-didnt-bark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=11070","title":{"rendered":"The Dog That Didn’t Bark"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Earlier this month marked the 94th<\/sup> anniversary of the death of Arthur Conan Doyle. If you read this blog regularly, you may recall that I wrote a series of posts based on themes and stories in an excellent anthology, edited by Richard T. Ryan, Sherlock Holmes: A Year of Mystery 1885<\/a>. It came out late last year, and my story \u201cA Brick Through the Window\u201d was in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m pleased to say that story won first place in the Public Safety Writers Association\u2019s annual awards program in the short story category. It tells how in July 1885, Holmes and Watson took part in investigating the impact of laws (only and outrageously punishing women) aimed at reducing sexually transmitted diseases in the military, as well as how extreme poverty had led many families to sell their young daughters into sexual slavery. It\u2019s noteworthy that the laws governing these matters were revised in a good direction shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Great Detective became embroiled in these unsavory matters by a request for help from William T. Stead, a real-life character who was a well-known periodical publisher and regarded as the first investigative reporter. Not surprising he\u2019d call on Holmes (if only fictionally). With his facility for disguise, Holmes was able to penetrate some exceedingly seedy places! Stead\u2019s death in 1912 was also notable: he perished aboard the RMS Titanic<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing my four published Sherlock Holmes pastiches and doing the posts about the SH:1885 collection inspired me to pick up the stories again. I have a two-volume Collected Works, and I\u2019m nearly through Volume I. It\u2019s been years since I read them, and I\u2019m struck by how almost every story contains a sentence we now think of as iconic Holmes. I just finished \u201cSilver Blaze\u201d about the missing race horse and dead horse trainer, and it\u2019s the one that includes the observation about the dog that didn\u2019t bark. Full of satisfying surprises!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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