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"It was, in some ways, the supreme moment of my friend's career."
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"It was, in some ways, the supreme moment of my friend's career."
Our Fall 2005 Meeting was on Saturday, October 22nd at 6 PM at the Cambridge Yacht Club.The Fall Meeting of the comrades from upper Swandam Lane began at 6PM with a cash bar. President Art Renkwitz delivered greetings and directed the toasting ( Toasts ) as the Denizens settled in for a delightful meal and unique festivities.
The subject for the evening was Poe....
When Edgar Allen Poe invented the detective story in April, 1841 (the date "Murders in the Rue Morgue"
appeared in the Southern Literary Messenger), he'd never visited Paris, the city in which the story is set; he'd never met a private eye (for the simple reason that there weren't any); he'd never even hung out with the cops on the beat, as far as we know, nor been in a forensics laboratory. There were no forensic laboratories, and patrolling city cops were an ultra-modern innovation being tried out, to much criticism, in London. Nevertheless, Poe, in one magic moment, invented the framework of all succeeding mysteries -- the private, unmarried detective; the faithful companion, in juxtaposition to whose duller sensibility the detective's lightning-like deductions shine with a more unearthly glitter; the hostile and rather thick-headed chief of police; and, most importantly, the crime-puzzle. It was DeQuincy who first wrote about the fine art of murder, but it was Poe who took that idea seriously. Although there'd been enigmas in plots before, never before had a plot been all puzzle. Never before, that is, had the reader been induced to see fiction in terms of an intellectual task, a problem to be solved, rather than as a mode of identification with the particular passions of a set of characters.
The Austin Chronicle HOME: VOL.20 NO.51: BOOKS: DIVING FOR PEARLS
BY ROGER GATHMAN (August 17, 2001)
The speaker for the evening was...
The editor of the Sherlockian literary publication... 
A member of both Watson's Tin Box
and the
Denizens.
She has made outstanding presentations at the Pratt Library Saturday with Sherlock sponsored by the 6 Napoleons of Baltimore.
we were honored to have
present
"...this whole ingenious story is of his concoction."
The Quiz of the evening examined...
First
published in Collier's Weekly Magazine, Nov. 1924, with 4
illustrations by John Richard Flanagan, and in the Strand Magazine,
Feb.-Mar. 1925, with 8 illustrations by Howard K.
Elcock.
Quizzes were provided by Beth Austin and Sam Freeland. Gifts were given to the winners in the Beginner and Master categories.
*Each entree is served with house salad, a starch, a vegetable and asorted breads*Dessert will be Strawberry Cheesecake
1. Sliced London Broil- with red wine mushroom sauce2. Chicken Piccata-chicken breast sauteed in lemon juice and white wine with sliced mushrooms and capers
3. Salmon Provencal-with tomatoes and capers. Delicious!
4. Garlic Shrimp
All-in-all it was a memorable night that the Denizens shared. The Spring Meeting of 2006 is scheduled for Saturday, April 22th. Put that on your calendar.
The Denizens of the Bar of Gold
1908 Pig Neck Road
Cambridge, MD 21613
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