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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3370667, member: 57463"]<font face="Georgia">Few of the big name detectives are associated with much. Nero Wolfe, Miss Marple, Nancy Drew, even Sherlock Holmes – all failed to produce any evidence. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia">[ATTACH=full]893968[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Holmes came closest. “The Third Garrideb” is a story set in 1902. In the plot, a man from Kansas with this unusual name has come to Holmes, seeking to find two others. His story is that he inherited $15 million dollars, but he must find two more people with the same unusual name in order to claim his legacy. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">The Fourth Garrideb is the name of a website dedicated to the numismatics of Sherlock Holmes. This is a fan site. Holmes fans are fanatical about details. They only recognize canon.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">This website, The Fourth Garrideb, presents coins, banknotes, bank drafts, and related materials from the times and places mentioned in the stories. But the stories themselves are rather lacking. In “The Third Garrideb” the original Garrideb, the real one, is a modest collector of antiquities, including bones and ancient coins. However, Holmes notes that nothing in the assemblage is valuable.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">[ATTACH=full]893969[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><i>Coin World</i> carried this article on May 15, 2015. The author is Joel Orosz, who is an active bibliomaniac. This article lists a few detective stories. Ellery Queen magazine had a story about a half disme connected to the burial of George Washington. Orosz also mentions a Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe story about a Brasher Doubloon. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia">[ATTACH=full]893970[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">“The $100,000 Nickel” aired on December 11, 1973, in the sixth season of Hawaii Five-O. It has more holes than Swiss cheese. The featured coin is the Olsen specimen 1913 Liberty Nickel. It is named after Fred E. Olsen, an Alton, Ill., explosives expert who briefly owned the coin in the 1940s. It was the first rare coin to sell for $100,000. As for the holes in the Hawaii Five-O story, one fan site - MJQ Dot Net (<a href="http://www.mjq.net" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mjq.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.mjq.net</a>) – has a long list of them, beginning with the fact that this Mint State coin is handled by a lot of people and even dropped into a newspaper vending machine. Moreover, the plot hinges on the crooks intending to fool everyone by altering a 1903 Nickel. The Zero is removed and a 1 is engraved in its place and no one is supposed to know how funny that looks. And the switch is supposed to take place right in front of the auctioneer’s clerks at the convention. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia">[ATTACH=full]893971[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font face="Georgia">The Thief was a two-part Matlock, running on Episodes 63 and 64 from the Third Season. They aired on March 28, 1989 and April 4, 1989. I have not seen them, and the plots that I found on-line were convoluted. All I know is that a coin dealer is accused of killing an employee who was stealing from him. Somehow, Matlock’s finding the coins clears the accused. But a lot more happens across the two episodes. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia">[ATTACH=full]893972[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font face="Georgia">"Scooby-Doo and A Mummy, Too" first aired on November 29, 1969. It was Episode 12 in Season 1. While visiting a museum, the gang learn about the legend of Ankha, a 3000-year-old mummy. Legend had it that the mummy will come back alive and turn people to stone. Shaggy later finds a coin inside his pocket from the exhibit, and when the gang go back to return it, they find the mummy has come to life and turned the professors to stone, and now he wants Shaggy's coin.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">The coin cannot be from 3000 BC, of course. That is irrelevant because the story is that it is indeed a rare ancient coin and the crook who intended to steal it was the evil Professor Najib who is disguised as the mummy to scare his way to the coin. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia">[ATTACH=full]893973[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">This one took the brass ring like a hungry street urchin on a free merry-go-round. Richard Stark is a pen name for Donald Westlake. Like Stephen King, and several other major professionals, Westlake wrote different kinds of stories under different names. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">In this series, Parker is a thief. Sometimes he kills people, but only when he has to. He does not like to kill – and he avoids other criminals who do. He just steals, even if he sometimes has to shoot a Pinkerton’s guard to do it.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">This story is an easy read, but it has good detail about the coin business, about conventions, dealers, and collectors. It is amazing how little has changed in 50 years. The author obviously did his homework, probably attended a coin show, and certainly talked to dealers and collectors. In the book, after robbing the coin show, the newspaper story estimates the haul at “three-quarters of a million.” The fence says that they always over-estimate. He offers Parker half: $200,000. That gets split four ways. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3370667, member: 57463"][FONT=Georgia]Few of the big name detectives are associated with much. Nero Wolfe, Miss Marple, Nancy Drew, even Sherlock Holmes – all failed to produce any evidence. [ATTACH=full]893968[/ATTACH] Holmes came closest. “The Third Garrideb” is a story set in 1902. In the plot, a man from Kansas with this unusual name has come to Holmes, seeking to find two others. His story is that he inherited $15 million dollars, but he must find two more people with the same unusual name in order to claim his legacy. The Fourth Garrideb is the name of a website dedicated to the numismatics of Sherlock Holmes. This is a fan site. Holmes fans are fanatical about details. They only recognize canon. This website, The Fourth Garrideb, presents coins, banknotes, bank drafts, and related materials from the times and places mentioned in the stories. But the stories themselves are rather lacking. In “The Third Garrideb” the original Garrideb, the real one, is a modest collector of antiquities, including bones and ancient coins. However, Holmes notes that nothing in the assemblage is valuable. [ATTACH=full]893969[/ATTACH] [I]Coin World[/I] carried this article on May 15, 2015. The author is Joel Orosz, who is an active bibliomaniac. This article lists a few detective stories. Ellery Queen magazine had a story about a half disme connected to the burial of George Washington. Orosz also mentions a Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe story about a Brasher Doubloon. [ATTACH=full]893970[/ATTACH] “The $100,000 Nickel” aired on December 11, 1973, in the sixth season of Hawaii Five-O. It has more holes than Swiss cheese. The featured coin is the Olsen specimen 1913 Liberty Nickel. It is named after Fred E. Olsen, an Alton, Ill., explosives expert who briefly owned the coin in the 1940s. It was the first rare coin to sell for $100,000. As for the holes in the Hawaii Five-O story, one fan site - MJQ Dot Net ([url]http://www.mjq.net[/url]) – has a long list of them, beginning with the fact that this Mint State coin is handled by a lot of people and even dropped into a newspaper vending machine. Moreover, the plot hinges on the crooks intending to fool everyone by altering a 1903 Nickel. The Zero is removed and a 1 is engraved in its place and no one is supposed to know how funny that looks. And the switch is supposed to take place right in front of the auctioneer’s clerks at the convention. [ATTACH=full]893971[/ATTACH] The Thief was a two-part Matlock, running on Episodes 63 and 64 from the Third Season. They aired on March 28, 1989 and April 4, 1989. I have not seen them, and the plots that I found on-line were convoluted. All I know is that a coin dealer is accused of killing an employee who was stealing from him. Somehow, Matlock’s finding the coins clears the accused. But a lot more happens across the two episodes. [ATTACH=full]893972[/ATTACH] "Scooby-Doo and A Mummy, Too" first aired on November 29, 1969. It was Episode 12 in Season 1. While visiting a museum, the gang learn about the legend of Ankha, a 3000-year-old mummy. Legend had it that the mummy will come back alive and turn people to stone. Shaggy later finds a coin inside his pocket from the exhibit, and when the gang go back to return it, they find the mummy has come to life and turned the professors to stone, and now he wants Shaggy's coin. The coin cannot be from 3000 BC, of course. That is irrelevant because the story is that it is indeed a rare ancient coin and the crook who intended to steal it was the evil Professor Najib who is disguised as the mummy to scare his way to the coin. [ATTACH=full]893973[/ATTACH] This one took the brass ring like a hungry street urchin on a free merry-go-round. Richard Stark is a pen name for Donald Westlake. Like Stephen King, and several other major professionals, Westlake wrote different kinds of stories under different names. In this series, Parker is a thief. Sometimes he kills people, but only when he has to. He does not like to kill – and he avoids other criminals who do. He just steals, even if he sometimes has to shoot a Pinkerton’s guard to do it. This story is an easy read, but it has good detail about the coin business, about conventions, dealers, and collectors. It is amazing how little has changed in 50 years. The author obviously did his homework, probably attended a coin show, and certainly talked to dealers and collectors. In the book, after robbing the coin show, the newspaper story estimates the haul at “three-quarters of a million.” The fence says that they always over-estimate. He offers Parker half: $200,000. That gets split four ways. [/FONT][/QUOTE]
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