“Sir Nigel”
Jan. 17th, 2020 12:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndrosenMichael Dirda had a piece in the Style section of Thursday’s Washington Post, reviewing two books by Conan Doyle: The White Company and Sir Nigel, the latter providing the backstory of a character in the first. This seemed interesting, and, as I discovered from the Sherlock Holmes stories many years ago, Doyle could write. Furthermore, S.M. Stirling has written that a conceit in his Emberverse novels is that The White Company really happened, and descendants of the characters are alive in England.
So I called Barnes and Noble, and the local store didn’t have the paperback of Sir Nigel, but they did arrange to ship it to me. (There is a new annotated edition of the other book, costing four times as much, so I decided that that wasn’t the place to start.) In a week or so, I may be able to begin reading about the original, ancestral Sir Nigel Loring.
So I called Barnes and Noble, and the local store didn’t have the paperback of Sir Nigel, but they did arrange to ship it to me. (There is a new annotated edition of the other book, costing four times as much, so I decided that that wasn’t the place to start.) In a week or so, I may be able to begin reading about the original, ancestral Sir Nigel Loring.
