Sherlock Holmes
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Anna May Wong’s ashes and also her sister Mary’s ashes were buried with their mother, Lee Toy Wong, at Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles. It’s a Small World, Disneyland, Anaheim. Toon Town in Disneyland, Anaheim. More Disneyland, Anaheim. Clifton’s Cafeteria has closed for renovation. Thank goodness it hasn’t closed for good! Gene Autrey statue Read more
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The cover of Anna May Wong’s Lucky Shoes designed by Huey Groves The book is published by the Culicidae Press and is available via Amazon.com or Culicidaepress.com A review of the book by Zoe Nikakis in Voice in The Age, 10 October 2011 ANNA MAY WONG’S LUCKY SHOES: 1939 AUSTRALIA THROUGH THE EYES OF AN Read more
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Sherlock Holmes – A Post-modern live radio play The iconic detective as you’ve never seen … or heard him before—reincarnated in the weird world of ‘foley’ sound effects, visual and vocal gymnastics. Sherlock Holmes confronts his arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty, in a tale of suspense, terror and bizarre Victorian morality—complete with French maids, cockney safe-crackers, Hackney Read more
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New Zealand actor Harry Plimmer played Holmes in Perth and Adelaide in J.C. Williamson’s 1902 production of Sherlock Holmes. Canadian actor and William Gillette protégé Cuyler Hastings played Holmes in the other Australian state capitals in 1902. The following photograph shows Hastings as Holmes (right), Redge Carey as Billy (centre) and J.B. Atholwood as Moriarty Read more
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LEGEND (Top to Bottom) Sydney Morning Herald 4 December 1948 Sydney Morning Herald 31 January 1940 Sydney Morning Herald 5 October 1942 Argus 15 May 1924 Argus 11 July 1938 Argus 3 February 1941 Sun-Herald 31 January 1954 Sun-Herald 20 March 1954 Sun-Herald 4 April 1954 Sun-Herald 2 May 1954 Argus 24 May 1944 Courier-Mail Read more
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Following is the front cover for my next book, Victims and Villains: Barbie and Ken Meet Sherlock Holmes, and the text for the back cover. It will be published by Ramble House (www.ramblehouse.com) later this year. BARBIE’S DEAD, at last! On March 9, 2009, the infamous Barbie doll turned 50. As for her companions, the Read more
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Recently a group of third-year architecture students at the University of Melbourne had to read a Sherlock Holmes story and then portray the victim in that story by altering the appearance of a Barbie or Ken doll. (I got this idea from the ‘Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death’, 18 dollhouse-sized dioramas of grisly crime scenes Read more
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Mudrooroo’s Aboriginal detective Dr. Watson Holmes Jackamara is one of the most interesting characters in Australian detective fiction. He is certainly a lot edgier than Arthur Upfield’s Aboriginal detective Napoleon Bonaparte, although Jackamara owes much to Bonaparte. Jackamara is the subject of an artist’s book that I’ve been working on for far too long now, Read more
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In 2002 I published a little book titled The Rebuses of Sherlock Holmes containing eight Sherlockian rebuses devised by the Australian book designer, cartoonist and graphic artist Vane Lindesay. This one is my favourite: Read more
Derham Groves 