Well done. I visited his house at Torre del Lago and where he was born in Lucca. I just love his work. As she is such a genius Fran should set our next problem methinks.
Obviously it's difficult to prove that it's not in The Hound of the Baskervilles, as I can't show you that it's not in my book of the original story. It's much easier to find something, than to not find something, in this case, but I found a way. Go to Project Gutenberg, where an e-book of the full text of HotB can be found: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3070/3070-h/3070-h.htm Now, within your browser's find facility [in Firefox it's edit -> find] type in the keyword kill or perhaps tell if you want to trawl through more sentences that won't come up with the phrase. Click through the entire book where an incidence of your phrase occurs. You won't find one, because it was never written. It may be in films, later editions, etc... but not in the original. Now show me your proof that it is.
Side issue but I don't like e-books. My friend lent her thingie to me and I could not enjoy a book. I read too fast for it...one page at a time is too slow. Luckily it saved me wasting my money. Nothing like a real book.
I just tried to search myself and it appears TSS is correct. I've not been able to find a single mention of that phrase from any Sherlock literature, however it was uttered in the 2012 Sherlock serial with Benedict Cumberbatch, in an episode titled "Hounds of the Baskerville", a slight difference from the title of the novel. 2012, it was even used in Top Gun before it was used in Sherlock!
Indeed it was and I have a recording of it too. Not a bad modern day Sherlock is young lad Cumberbatch. I'm sure, Conan-Doyle would be quite happy with the portrayal. Off the actual topic, personally, and I know this goes against public opinion, I think Andrew Scott's portrayal of Moriarty is terrible. He's a perfectly capable actor, but Moriarty in the short stories was almost a mirror image of Holmes, minus the violin and cocaine addiction. Not the searing genius, but demented madman that Scott shows us.
I think they cost a fair bit Fran. Sherlock isn't the only new series where 3 or 4 episodes have constituted an entire series though. In these times of austerity, making a minimum of 6 episodes for a new series, only to have it bomb, is too much of a risk for the Beeb. 18 months ago, the BBC showed a new 3 episode series of Michael Dibden's Aurelio Zen detective books. They went down a storm amongst the reporting viewers who watched [I thought they were brilliant too], yet because they cost well over a £million per 90 minute episode, the series was canned. So you can be a hit and still not be continued. But at least we got 3 episodes. Funnily enough, I think they got more than their money back through sales of the series. But the new fat controller wanted to make more Dr bloody Who.
Nope. As it happens, I did take a slow trawl through my copy because all the yay-ers had put a doubt in my head. After making that effort, I had to post a reply.
Watching Zen made me fall in love with Italy again. I haven't been to my other home country for years, and watching Zen made me realise it's been too long. I'm slow planning a motorcycle tour to be made in a year or three. How good is Silk..? I fancy a bit of decent courtroom [I assume that's the background] drama after Garrow's Law, which was OK.
