Thursday, December 25, 2014

THE CASE OF THE CHRISTMAS PUDDING



The Doctor's Bag
By
Keith Souter  aka Clay More

It is Christmas Day today and I hope that you all will be celebrating with friends and family. So as not to ruin your enjoyment of your Christmas turkey and your Christmas pudding I have desisted this month from giving you the gory details about the operations that the old frontier doctors performed. Instead, I thought you might like a little seasonal relief with a Sherlock Holmes tale, The Case of the Christmas Pudding.




This was one of a series of short movies made for TV in 1955 starring Ronald Howard as Sherlock Holmes and H. Marion Crawford as Dr John Watson.



I have always been a fan of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. I am sure that Dr Logan Munro, the Wolf Creek town doctor would have had a copy or two of some of the monographs penned by Holmes, and would have avidly read Watson's accounts of his cases.

Anyway, enjoy Christmas and enjoy The Case of the Christmas Pudding.




*****

Clay More's novel about Dr George Goodfellow is published in the West of the Big River series by Western Fictioneers. 

Available at Amazon.com:


THE DOCTOR by CLAY MORE



And his collection of short stories about Doc Marcus Quigley is published by High Noon Press



Available at Amazon.com:

ADVENTURES FROM THE CASEBOOK OF DR MARCUS QUIGLEY

And his latest western  novel Dry Gulch Revenge was published by Hale on 29th August.


at

8 comments:

  1. thomasrizzoDecember 25, 2014 at 6:04 AM

    Ah, Sherlock Holmes and Watson on a Christmas morning. A fun story with the usual twist. Merry Christmas. Keith.

    ReplyDelete
  2. J.E.S. HaysDecember 25, 2014 at 6:06 AM

    Tom, you beat me out of bed!

    Thanks for the treat, Keith, and Happy Holidays!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Keith SouterDecember 25, 2014 at 6:35 AM

    Thanks Tom and JES. Happy Christmas.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Frank RoderusDecember 25, 2014 at 7:23 AM

    The guy made an excellent Holmes, I thought. Thanks for posting it, Keith.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Keith SouterDecember 25, 2014 at 7:35 AM

    My pleasure, Frank. I agree, he was a good Holmes. I think the modern Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch is superb, but for me Holmes belongs to his time (although the Basil Rathbone ones used as propaganda during WWll were fun).

    ReplyDelete
  6. Charlie SteelDecember 25, 2014 at 10:24 AM

    Dr. Keith,

    Merry Christmas to you and everybody else!

    Charlie

    ReplyDelete
  7. Renaissance WomenDecember 25, 2014 at 10:59 AM

    Thank you. Sherlock, in all the various forms, is a favorite. Film, books, stories, TV programs. This is perfect gift for the holiday. May you and all you love have a wonderful season. Doris

    ReplyDelete
  8. Keith SouterDecember 25, 2014 at 6:07 PM

    Thank you Charlie and Doris. It is foggy here and I think I just heard a Hansom cab outside. The game is afoot.

    Have a Happy Christmas.

    ReplyDelete