"Watson"". William Rushton played Watson. In 1988, the animated series ""Alvin and the Chipmunks"" aired an episode entitled ""Elementary, My Dear Simon"", which stars Simon as Holmes, Theodore as Watson, Alvin as Professor Moriarty, and Dave as Inspector Seville. Also in 1988, in the animated series ""BraveStarr"", the two-part episode """"Sherlock Holmes in the 23rd Century"""" had Holmes transported from Reichenbach Falls in 1893, to London in 2249. Holmes is joined by an alien, Dr. W't'sn (the 23rd century counterpart of Watson) & Inpsector Mycroft Holmes of Scotland Yard (a direct descendant & namesake of Holmes' brother Mycroft); the trio"
"of the order in which the stories had appeared in the original Derleth volumes. In ""The Adventure of the Other Brother"", included in ""The Papers of Sherlock Holmes Volume II"" by David Marcum (2011, 2013) Holmes and Watson travel to Yorkshire in 1896 to defend Holmes's older brother, Sherrinford, from a charge of murder, as first briefly mentioned at the conclusion of William S. Baring-Gould's biography, ""Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street"" (1962). While there, they encounter Sherrinford's youngest son, 16-year-old Siger Holmes (named after his grandfather). Siger looks like a young Sherlock Holmes, and also shows a remarkable facility for"
"of Holmes stories: Mycroft Holmes Mycroft Holmes is a fictional character appearing in stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He is the elder brother (by seven years) of detective Sherlock Holmes. He is described as having abilities of deduction and knowledge exceeding even those of his brother, though their practical use is limited by his poor physique and dislike of fieldwork. The character has been adapted in various pieces of literature and media, including television series, movies, radio, and comics. He is also popular in culture, being mentioned by many works, which mostly reference his job, personality, or his"
"Mycroft Holmes Mycroft Holmes is a fictional character appearing in stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He is the elder brother (by seven years) of detective Sherlock Holmes. He is described as having abilities of deduction and knowledge exceeding even those of his brother, though their practical use is limited by his poor physique and dislike of fieldwork. The character has been adapted in various pieces of literature and media, including television series, movies, radio, and comics. He is also popular in culture, being mentioned by many works, which mostly reference his job, personality, or his relationship with Sherlock"
"Cambridge, although the question of which one remains a topic of eternal debate. Baring-Gould believed textual evidence indicated that Holmes attended both. The most influential ""biography"" of Holmes is ""Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street"" by Baring-Gould. Faced with Holmes' reticence about his family background and early life, Baring-Gould invented one for him. According to Baring-Gould, Sherlock Holmes was born in Yorkshire, the youngest of three sons of Siger Holmes and Violet Sherrinford. The middle brother, Mycroft, appears in the canon, but the eldest, Sherrinford Holmes, was invented by Baring-Gould to free Mycroft and Sherlock from the obligation of following Siger"
"on April 4, 2006. The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother is a 1975 American musical comedy film with Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise, Roy Kinnear and Leo McKern. The film was Wilder's directorial debut, from his own original script. Douglas Wilmer and Thorley Walters appear as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, respectively. Wilmer had previously appeared as Sherlock Holmes in the 1960s BBC TV series, and Walters played Watson in three other films: ""Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace"" (1962), ""The Best House in London"" (1969), and ""Silver Blaze"""
"A. J. Raffles (character) Arthur J. Raffles is a character created in the 1890s by E. W. Hornung, brother-in-law to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Raffles is, in many ways, a deliberate inversion of Holmeshe is a ""gentleman thief"", living at the Albany, a prestigious address in London, playing cricket for the Gentlemen of England and supporting himself by carrying out ingenious burglaries. He is called the ""Amateur Cracksman"", and often, at first, differentiates between himself and the ""professors""professional criminals from the lower classes. As Holmes has Dr. Watson to chronicle his adventures, Raffles has Harry"
"The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother is a 1975 American musical comedy film with Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise, Roy Kinnear and Leo McKern. The film was Wilder's directorial debut, from his own original script. Douglas Wilmer and Thorley Walters appear as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, respectively. Wilmer had previously appeared as Sherlock Holmes in the 1960s BBC TV series, and Walters played Watson in three other films: ""Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace"" (1962), ""The Best House in London"" (1969), and ""Silver Blaze"" (1977). In 1891, Foreign"
"Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler. He appears in two pastiche novels by author John Lescroart, ""Son of Holmes"" (1986) and ""Rasputin's Revenge"" (1987). Lupa, a secret agent during the First World War, is strongly implied to be the younger version of fictional detective Nero Wolfe in the mystery series by Rex Stout. Enola Holmes is the younger sister and youngest sibling of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes. She appears in the series ""The Enola Holmes Mysteries"" by Nancy Springer and it could be inferred that she appears in the story ""The Copper Beeches"" as Violet Hunter, however there is not enough"
"Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes. His nephew Daniel Warner Marvin II, Henry's son, perished in the sinking of the RMS ""Titanic"" in 1912. He was born in Warners, New York, US to Daniel Warner Marvin and Ellen Jane Weed. He was married to Sarah E. Babcock. He died in Los Angeles, California. Arthur Marvin Arthur Weed Marvin (May 26, 1859 – January 18, 1911), was an American cinematographer who worked for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in which his brother Henry"" 'Harry' ""Marvin was one of the four founders (the others being Herman Casler, William Kennedy Laurie"
"Sherlock Holmes, far from being a one-off in terms of his powers of observation and deductive reasoning, in fact has an elder brother whose skills, or so Holmes claims, outstrip even his own. As a consequence of this, Watson becomes acquainted with the Diogenes Club and his friend's brother, Mycroft. Mycroft, as Watson learns, does not have the energy of his younger brother and as a consequence is incapable of using his great skills for detective work: In spite of his inertia, the elder Holmes has often delivered the correct answer to a problem that Sherlock has brought to him."
"The Apocalypse Handbook"" in 2016 In 2018, Abdul-Jabbar, partnered again with Anna Waterhouse, authored ""Mycroft and Sherlock"". Mycroft Holmes (novel) Mycroft Holmes is a mystery novel by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse. It involves Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character of Mycroft Holmes, the older brother of Sherlock Holmes, solving a mystery early in his career as a government official. It is Abdul-Jabbar's first adult novel. Mycroft Holmes, secretary to Secretary of State for War Edward Cardwell, and his best friend Cyrus Douglas learn of disturbing reports from Douglas' birthplace Trinidad; stories of children gone missing, Douen, and Lougarou. Holmes' fiancée,"
"airing on BBC One and PBS on 1 January 2017 and concluded on 15 January 2017. The first episode, ""A Study in Pink"", loosely based upon the first Sherlock Holmes novel ""A Study in Scarlet"", was written by Moffat and directed by Paul McGuigan. The story depicts the introduction of Sherlock to John, and them entering a flatshare at Baker Street in London, and then their investigation into a series of deaths, initially believed to be suicides. Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's older brother, played by Mark Gatiss, also appears for the first time. The episode was first broadcast simultaneously on BBC"
"Mycroft Holmes (novel) Mycroft Holmes is a mystery novel by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse. It involves Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character of Mycroft Holmes, the older brother of Sherlock Holmes, solving a mystery early in his career as a government official. It is Abdul-Jabbar's first adult novel. Mycroft Holmes, secretary to Secretary of State for War Edward Cardwell, and his best friend Cyrus Douglas learn of disturbing reports from Douglas' birthplace Trinidad; stories of children gone missing, Douen, and Lougarou. Holmes' fiancée, Georgiana Sutton, was also raised in Trinidad and the stories terrify her enough to return home and"
"Certainly there is no mention of it in any of the stories, although a painting of Sherlock Holmes does hang over Archie Goodwin's desk in Nero Wolfe's office. Some commentators note both physical and psychological resemblances and suggest Sherlock's brother Mycroft Holmes as a more likely father for Wolfe. Commentators have noted a coincidence in the names ""Sherlock Holmes"" and ""Nero Wolfe"": the same vowels appear in the same order. In 1957, Ellery Queen called this ""The Great O-E Theory"" and suggested that it was derived from the father of mysteries, Edgar Allan Poe. Some Wold Newton theorists have suggested"
"Secretary Lord Redcliff haphazardly receives a document with unknown contents from Queen Victoria; the document is stolen from his safe later that night. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson discuss the case. Deciding to lie low for a while, Holmes informs Watson that he will delegate cases to his younger brother, Sigerson (Gene Wilder), who has toiled in his brother's shadow without credit for decades. At a train station, and dressing in drag to avoid a would-be assassin, Sherlock passes the message to Scotland Yard records clerk Orville Sacker (Marty Feldman), a man with auditory eidetic memory, who happens to be"
"The Hounds of Baskerville ""The Hounds of Baskerville"" is the second episode of the second series of the BBC crime drama series ""Sherlock"", which follows the modern-day adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and was first broadcast by BBC One on 8 January 2012. It was written by co-creator Mark Gatiss, who also portrays Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's brother in the series, and was directed by Paul McGuigan. The episode is a contemporary adaptation of ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"", one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous works. In the episode, Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his crime-solving partner John Watson (Martin Freeman)"
"appears, accused of a murder that Sherlock must find him innocent of, in the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game adventure ""The Yorkshire Horrors"". Sherrinford also appears in the Italian comic series ""Storie da Altrove"" (a spin-off of ""Martin Mystère"") as the eldest brother, born nine years before him, of Sherlock himself. Minor Sherlock Holmes characters This article features minor characters from the ""Sherlock Holmes"" stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and from non-canonical derived works. Inspector Baynes of the Surrey force appears in the two-part story ""The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge"", subtitled (i) ""The Singular Experience of Mr John Scott"
"physicians working at the estate, Dr. Sexton, is assaulted by an unknown assailant when out on a walk. Dr. John Watson, who is in charge of the medical facility, goes to fetch his dear friend Sherlock Holmes to bring some clarity to the case of the attack. Upon his arrival to the estate, Sherlock Holmes discovers the dead body of one of the brothers, Geoffrey. Inspector Lestrade of the Scotland Yard is put on the case to solve the murder, and immediately arrests the captain as a suspect. Holmes is of another opinion about the flyer's guilt and continues to"
"also makes a minor but significant appearance in Warren Ellis and John Cassaday's comic book series ""Planetary"". Michael P. Hodel and Sean M. Wright presented a mystery-adventure ""Enter the Lion: A Posthumous Memoir of Mycroft Holmes"" (1979) in which Sherlock's older brother prevents a conspiracy involving a return of the American ""colonies"" to Great Britain. Sherlock makes appearances with Victor Trevor (from The Adventure of the Gloria Scott), Professor Moriarty and Moriarty's father. Carole Nelson Douglas has written a spin-off series centring upon Holmes' nemesis Irene Adler. The first book is titled ""Good Night, Mr. Holmes"" and takes place concurrently"
"Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche by Paul Kane. The book thrusts Sherlock Holmes into the world of Clive Barker's ""Hellraiser"". After the death of his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, Holmes finds himself bored without someone with whom to match wits. He stirs from his malaise when an interesting case presents itself: Laurence Cotton’s brother Francis has gone missing with only his screams from behind a locked door a clue to his whereabouts. Soon enough to trail leads Holmes to a particular puzzle box. Niall Alexander of Tor.com"
"in 1978, bringing his work to wider attention and appreciation. Charles Altamont Doyle Charles Altamont Doyle (25 March 1832 – 10 October 1893) was an illustrator, watercolourist and civil servant. Member of an artistic family, he is remembered today primarily for being the father of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was the son of artist John Doyle, the political cartoonist known as H.B., and Marianna Conan Doyle. Three of his older brothers in the family of seven children were artists: James William Edmund Doyle, Richard ""Dickie"" Doyle, and Henry Edward Doyle. The family was of Irish"
"to form a satisfying whole."" The reviewers of ""Electronic Gaming Monthly"" wrote of the 3DO version ""Great graphics, excellent sound effects – this game really shows off the system's capabilities while providing a challenging mystery."" They scored it a 6.6/10 average. In 2011, Adventure Gamers named ""Case of the Serrated Scalpel"" the 22nd-best adventure game ever released. This game was released September 27, 1996. Holmes' brother Mycroft is caught in an explosion when his club, the Diogenes, is blown up. The player, first as Doctor Watson and then as Sherlock Holmes, investigates the explosion and discovers that it was not"
"music unimportant and wasteful, Sherlock seems by the end of the book to be fast friends with Rufus. He is fourteen years old. Sherlock's older brother, who works in the innermost workings of the British government, comes to visit Sherlock and Amyus at Holmes Manor but says that he could not picture the idea of going to America, that he has a fixed orbit that he likes to stick to it. His friendship with Sherlock and his sense of adventure means that he helps Sherlock in his attempts to locate and identify John Wilkes Booth, which results in Matty's kidnapping"
"is not made clear, Watson is presumably released. In 1902 Mark Twain painted an unflattering portrait of Holmes and his methods of deduction in his ""A Double Barrelled Detective Story"". In the short story, set at a mining camp in California, Fetlock Jones, a nephew of Sherlock Holmes, kills his master, a silver-miner, by blowing up his cabin. Since this occurs when Holmes happens to be visiting, he brings his skills to bear upon the case and arrives at logically worked conclusions that are proved abysmally wrong by an amateur detective with an extremely keen sense of smell which he"
"by Andy Lane the Time Lord meets Holmes and Watson while investigating a recent theft from the Library of St. John the Beheaded, revealed to be the work of Holmes's unknown eldest brother Sherringford (sic), Holmes in the end being forced to kill Sherringford (sic) to save Watson. They are later amongst numerous characters from the series who attend Bernice Summerfield's wedding in ""Happy Endings"" by Paul Cornell. Holmes also features in the ""Faction Paradox"" novel ""Erasing Sherlock"" by Kelly Hale and in the novelette ""The Shape of Things"" by Stuart Douglas in the Iris Wildthyme collection Miss Wildthyme and"
"Nevertheless, mentions of his early life and extended family paint a loose biographical picture of the detective. An estimate of Holmes's age in ""His Last Bow"" places his year of birth at 1854; the story, set in August 1914, describes him as sixty years of age. His parents are not mentioned in the stories, although Holmes mentions that his ""ancestors"" were ""country squires"". In ""The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter"", he claims that his grandmother was sister to the French artist Vernet, without clarifying whether this was Claude Joseph, Carle, or Horace Vernet. Holmes's brother Mycroft, seven years his senior,"
"Sherlock Holmes"" was released on DVD on 24 March 2009. The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes () is a German mystery comedy of 1937, directed by Karl Hartl. Detective Morris Flynn (Hans Albers) and his assistant Macky McMacpherson (Heinz Rühmann), masquereading as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, investigate two attractive sisters, Mary and Jane Berry, and the theft and forgery of valuable postage stamps. ""Lexikon des Internationalen Films"" calls it a swinging, lively comedy. Albers and Rühmann have been two longtime major stars of German cinema and are still known for the main song"
"Devlin's brother, remains in the background, arguably Mycroft Holmes to Devlin's Sherlock. He is described as the black sheep of the family. He worked with Devlin on at least one occasion, helping him deactivate the deadly and destructive Herod, in which ""Freddy sold his soul to the Devil to find out its ""protoccult codes"""" (""Reign of Frogs"", ""2000 AD"" progs 1158-1167). A professional gambler and pornographer by the age of nineteen, his behaviour estranged him from his family: Devlin described him as ""a roué and a libertine"" and Stella felt forced to disown him, claiming that the strain nearly killed"
"Wildthyme and Friends Investigate"" from Obverse Books. Holmes' creator Arthur Conan Doyle appears in the Virgin Missing Adventures novel ""Evolution"" by John Peel, where it is implied that he based some elements of the fictional Holmes on the Fourth Doctor. As well as Sherlock Holmes, the novel includes appearances by Sherlock's older brother Mycroft, who first appeared in ""The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter"", and another yet older brother, Sherringford (sic) along with a cameo from their father, Siger (Siger and the similarly named Sherrinford were invented by Holmesian scholar William S. Baring-Gould to resolve an apparent contradiction in the"
"The Enola Holmes Mysteries The Enola Holmes Mysteries is a young adult fiction series of detective novels by American author Nancy Springer, starring Enola Holmes as the fourteen-year-old sister of an already-famous Sherlock Holmes, twenty years her senior. This pastiche series borrows characters and settings from the established canon of Sherlock Holmes, but the Enola character is Springer's creation and specific to this series. The first book, ""The Case of the Missing Marquess"", and the fifth, ""The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline"", were nominated for the Edgar Awards for Best Juvenile Mystery in 2007 and 2010, respectively. On Enola's fourteenth"
"in the UK and US beginning on 8 June 2016. In October 2012, Winning Moves sold a Sherlock-themed edition of Cluedo. Publishers and retailers reported a 180% rise in sales of Sherlock Holmes books during the first series' broadcast. BBC Online published several tie-in websites relating to the show's fictional world. These were written by Joseph Lidster, who had also contributed to the ""Doctor Who"" tie-in websites. Two websites – thescienceofdeduction.co.uk and johnwatsonblog.co.uk – feature the events from the show in the form of puzzles and case-summaries, often with comments (for example, by John Watson's sister, ""Harry""). There are also"
"Balbirnie Lee. They have three children. He is a practising Catholic and actively involved in the church. Owen Dudley Edwards Owen Dudley Edwards (born 27 March 1938) is an Irish historian and former Reader in Commonwealth and American History at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the son of Professor Robert Dudley Edwards and brother to the Irish writer, Ruth Dudley Edwards. He is the general editor of the Oxford Sherlock Holmes series, and is a recognised expert on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse and Oscar Wilde, about each of whom he has written. Dudley Edwards attended"