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I had the best eighth-grade English teacher ever, because when we got to The Hound of the Baskervilles, he also had us read "The Speckled Band" and possibly "The Copper Beeches," I think, but he definitely showed us some of the Granada episodes, and I was hooked. This was 1992, so I started watching The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on A&E, Monday nights, fairly religiously. My soul currently covets the full DVD boxed set, which, someday, shall be mine.
On Occupation: Girl
The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, April 3, 2008:
The Adventure of the Lion's Mane
Holmes has retired to Sussex to keep bees (no, rly), except that a local schoolteacher ("coach," "tutor," whatever) turns up dead on the beach with red lashes on his back, obviously having been scourged to death by a jellyfish. O noes, who could have killed him a jellyfish? Could someone have killed him with a hot wire mesh what? or a cat o'nine tails wielded by a jellyfish? O hay! Holmes totes remembers a book in his attic that could hold the answer! BEHOLD, GENTLEMENS, THE LION'S MANE JELLYFISH!!! JELLYFISH!!!! OH MY GOD YOU MORONS IT'S A JELLYFISH! Rocks fall, jellyfish dies. Also, we learn that the cure for jellyfish stings is 1) salad oil and 2) vast quantities of brandy, adminstered internally.
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