Death by Misadventure…….
I know Sunn is our official MR Community Coroner, but I think you might find this all interesting….. I just finished re-reading all 56 Short stories and four novels of Sherlock Holmes…. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a great writer….. All of the stories read as if they were written today, not over a hundred years ago for the bulk of the canon….. This is what caught my attention….
In The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, the last series of short stories written circa 1920-27, the third to the last one written is named, “The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger”, a story of a woman supposedly mauled by a lion…… Here’s what jumped from the page setting off bells in my head, and, I quote, “It was six months before she was fit to give evidence, but the inquest was duly held, with the obvious verdict of Death from Misadventure”…… Apparently, In England, this is a legitimate medical term for people that die by intentionally placing themselves in danger….. I knew I had heard that phrase before……
I searched my CD collection and came up with “Death by Misadventure” by John Haitt off of his “Riding with the King” album….. It fits perfectly and I recommend the album highly….. It just goes to show that time may pass, but some things forever remain the same…..
February 10th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
John Haitt’s album also contains the title song, “Riding with the King”, written by him….. You may be more familiar with the Eric Clapton/B.B. King version, but, here’s a chance for you to hear the original version…….. Of course, as far as I am concerned it’s worth buying the album for the “Death by Misadventure” track alone…..