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But first, my newest painting: a Red Cardinal! Took me three days because I ruined the background TWICE. You can watch the timelapse by clicking on the image.
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Right. The thing about Holmes.
Short version: Holmes has been driving me mad since forever, and that was the one and only reason I wrote my Kronberg & Holmes series. Well, and that women had zero rights in the Victorian era, which pissed me off mightily.
Holmes’ methods are mostly real. The blood tests, the fingerprints, the mud-on-your-shoes trick are all based on Victorian state-of-the-art forensics and real people. The problem isn't the methods. It's that Holmes is never wrong about them. He applies experimental, frequently unreliable 1880s science with the confidence of a guy with a crystal ball.
And I have a theory about why Doyle did that. Hop over to our evidence room and find out. I'll be over there, looking for turnips (you’ll get the joke once you’ve read the thing, promise). Tap the image to start:
That's it for today. One bird, one dead Victorian doctor and one twice-dead fictitious detective. Standard week, right?
Until next time,
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