Over the last several months, Standard Ebooks has released nicely made, free ebooks of the Holmes canon, except only The Casebook because it’s not in the public domain yet in the United States. They’ve also released several books of Maurice Leblanc’s Arsène Lupin, gentleman burglar, and since I was unfamiliar with the character (save forContinue reading “Arsene Lupin vs. Herlock Sholmes”
Author Archives: Allyn Gibson
The Wasp’s Tale
There was a wasp in the Beetle this morning. I didn’t notice until I was half a mile from home. I was on Oak Road, minding my own business, when a wasp comes out of nowhere and begins beating furiously against the (closed) driver’s side window. Startled, I cracked open both windows in the hopeContinue reading “The Wasp’s Tale”
Wanderlust
I felt like playing hooky from work this morning. As I drove down 83, somewhere between Exits 31 and 27, Carbon Leaf’s “Blue Ridge Laughing” playing on the Beetle’s CD player (from a road trip mixtape I made a few weeks ago), the sun broke through the wispy clouds, and the fog and the mistContinue reading “Wanderlust”