{"id":1224,"date":"2010-01-14T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:42:03","slug":"book-log-the-memoirs-of-sherlock-holmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1224","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes<\/i> by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/p>\n<p>So, as far as I can tell, here we have the first mention of Professor Moriarty in &#8220;The Final Problem&#8221;.  Also, Sherlock&#8217;s older, smarter, but lazier brother Mycroft in &#8220;The Greek Interpreter&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I guess what I find surprising is that Professor Moriarty only makes an appearance in two stories of the canon., which are really two parts of the same story. I guess from popular culture, I had thought he would be a continuous presence, akin to Silas Greenback in the Danger Mouse canon.<\/p>\n<p><u>Stories in this collection<\/u><br \/>\nSilver Blaze<br \/>\nThe yellow face<br \/>\nThe stock-broker&#8217;s clerk<br \/>\nThe &#8220;Gloria Scott&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Musgrave ritual<br \/>\nThe Reigate puzzle<br \/>\nThe crooked man<br \/>\nThe resident patient<br \/>\nThe Greek interpreter<br \/>\nThe naval treaty<br \/>\nThe final problem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle So, as far as I can tell, here we have the first mention of Professor Moriarty in &#8220;The Final Problem&#8221;. Also, Sherlock&#8217;s older, smarter, but lazier brother Mycroft in &#8220;The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1224\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[494,457],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2","tag-book-log-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3356,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/3356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}