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Would "the stamp of one defect" qualify?

I'm halfway sure there is a sherlock holmes story involving a stamp

Themis-Athena wrote: "Would "the stamp of one defect" qualify?"

Morning T-A
:O)

Bring it on - it has stamp in the title

Err, I meant that speech by the Prince of Denmark ...?

And a good morning to you, of course!!

Themis-Athena wrote: "Err, I meant that speech by the Prince of Denmark ...?

And a good morning to you, of course!!"

palm/head!

lol

of course, you are on the lateral-thinking ball this morning

More like a Hamlet nut's knee-jerk reaction. I'm barely awake yet ...

Bettie wrote: "I'm halfway sure there is a sherlock holmes story involving a stamp"

Yes, so am I. Will have to see if I can think of which one it is.

Hmm. I can think of several Holmes mysteries featuring letters, and at least two movies where stamps figure as part of the plot or the solution ("Sherlock Holmes in Washington" and the German "Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war") -- and I, too, have the ghost of a "Holmes and philately" story hovering somewhere in the back of my mind. But so far I'm drawing a blank!

There's a play called Mauritius, which has something about the Inverted Jenny in it, apparently (haven't read it myself).

I also remember a children's book entitled "(somebody) and the blue Mauritius" ("(...) und die blaue Mauritius"), or something of the sort. But I'm darned if I can find it -- or rediscover the author -- in the GR database!

Is it "Billy Bunter and the Blue Mauritius"? Author Charles Hamilton aka Frank Richards.

Billy BUnter and the....

Good sleuthing Susanna, T-A

It might have been, though reading the plot summary on Amazon doesn't ring any bells (not that that says a lot about anything except the size of the Swiss cheese holes in my brain). Wouldn't it be funny, though, if there were TWO children's books with that title?!

It would be very funny!

Stamp On The Ground, Italobrothers