tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953280070115140001.post5946404745519640088..comments2023-08-02T14:53:17.253+02:00Comments on At the Villa Rose: Those Damn AmateursXavierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05702919450638993709noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953280070115140001.post-72358135274192780102011-12-30T23:54:24.439+01:002011-12-30T23:54:24.439+01:00For a long time, British sport was split between &...For a long time, British sport was split between 'Gentleman and Players' (there is a Raffles story of the same name). The idea was that the sort of sportsman who played sport as a job was inferior to the sportsman who did it for the love of the game alone. Holmes says more than once that he plays the game for the game's sake.<br /><br />It should also be remembered that in the period in which the early Holmes stories were published, the standards of the police were incredibly low. Holmes ideas about crime scene investigation first shown in STUDY IN SCARLET (don't destroy clues, note down everything you see, deduce from what you find) predated actual police procedure by many years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953280070115140001.post-37609055786307827242011-12-30T17:28:12.324+01:002011-12-30T17:28:12.324+01:00Julian Symons was an autodidact intellectual, a br...Julian Symons was an autodidact intellectual, a brilliant man, salf-taught, with without a college education. Hilarious?The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.com