George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) As reluctant as Dorian himself was to look at his own picture,...

Robert Ledru is barely a footnote in my novel, Gray Matter . His name is thrown out as a warning by the lawyer, Jean-Michel D'Barbareau,...

Perhaps Sherlock Holmes is not the most expected starting place for discussing a book about Judas Iscariot, but The Doomed Disciple owes much to Holmes' methods. In light of this fact, I thought it best to present an overview of these methods here, as a pastiche, recorded by his faithful chronicler, John Watson. This is the final of four such articles, focused on Judas Iscariot. In the first three, Holmes discusses the validity of the gospels, Joseph of Arimathaea, and Simon

Perhaps Sherlock Holmes is not the most expected starting place for discussing a book about Judas Iscariot, but The Doomed Disciple owes much to Holmes' methods. In light of this fact, I thought it best to present an overview of these methods here, as a pastiche, recorded by his faithful chronicler, John Watson. This is the third of four such articles. In the first, Holmes is seen discussing the gospels themselves, and in the next three articles, Holmes discusses three of th

Perhaps Sherlock Holmes is not the most expected starting place for discussing a book about Judas Iscariot, but the book owes much to Holmes' methods. In light of this fact, I thought it best to present an overview of these methods here as a pastiche, recorded by his faithful chronicler, John Watson. This is the second of four such articles. In the first, Holmes is seen presenting his thoughts on the gospels themselves (If you haven't yet read the first blog, you may do so he

Perhaps Sherlock Holmes is not the most expected starting place for discussing a book about Judas Iscariot, but the book owes much to Holmes' methods. In light of this fact, I thought it best to present an overview of these methods as a pastiche, recorded by his faithful chronicler, John Watson. This is the first of four such articles, where Holmes is seen presenting his thoughts on the gospels themselves. In the next three articles, Holmes will discuss three of the major pla

There is perhaps nothing quite as iconic of the Victorian era, whether in London, Paris, New York, or any other large city of the time,...

Dorian Gray is perhaps one of the most intriguing characters of Victorian fiction. The Picture of Dorian Gray stands somewhere between the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allen Poe. Doyle's world is one of pure logic; Sherlock Holmes is a man who finds answers; everything is explained and demystified, all questions are answered, and conclusions follow premises with mathematical precision. Meanwhile, Edgar Allan Poe wrote in a world of poetry and symbol; his stories