"and bonus material. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is a 1970 DeLuxe Color film in Panavision written and produced by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, and directed by Wilder. The film offers an affectionate, slightly parodic look at Sherlock Holmes, and draws a distinction between the ""real"" Holmes and the character portrayed by Watson in his stories for ""The Strand"" magazine. It stars Robert Stephens as Holmes and Colin Blakely as Doctor Watson. Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the creators and writers of the BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning series ""Sherlock"", credited"
"Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories first appeared in serial form in the monthly ""Strand"" magazine in the United Kingdom. The series quickly attracted a wide and passionate following on both sides of the Atlantic, and when Doyle killed off Holmes in ""The Final Problem"", the public outcry was so great, and the publishing offers for more stories so attractive, that he was reluctantly forced to resurrect him. In Italy, local authors began to produce crime mysteries in the 1850s. Early translations of English and American stories and local works were published in cheap yellow covers and thus the genre was baptized"
"some concern about the rights of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the series was retitled ""Aus dem Geheimakten des Weltdetektivs"" (The Secret Files of the King of Detectives) with No. 11, even though the main character was still called ""Sherlock Holmes"" inside. Holmes' ""Doctor Watson"" sidekick, however, was a younger man named ""Harry Taxon"". Sixteen issues of the original German series were adapted into French starting in October 1907 by publisher Fernand Laven for the magazine ""La Nouvelle Populaire"" under the title ""Les Dossiers Secrets de Sherlock Holmes"" (Sherlock Holmes' Secret Files) for No. 1, immediately changed to ""Les Dossiers Secrets"
"the magazine took off with the first of its Sherlock Holmes stories, beginning with ""A Scandal in Bohemia"" in the July 1891 issue, Haité's graphic rendering of London's Strand looking eastwards with the magazine title suspended from telegraph wires was destined to become an icon of late-Victorian publishing. Variations of Haité's design were featured on its sister title, ""The Strand Musical Magazine"", and on several Sherlock Holmes first edition bound volumes. In 1883, Haité was elected a member of the elite literary club the Sette of Odd Volumes. He became its annual vice-president in 1887 and president – known as"
"Harry Dickson Harry Dickson is a fictional pulp detective, born in America, educated in London, and was called ""The American Sherlock Holmes"". He has appeared in almost 200 pulp magazines published in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. The original pulp dime-novel series that later became ""Harry Dickson"" began in Germany in January 1907 under the title of ""Detektiv Sherlock Holmes und seine weltberühmten Abenteuer"" (Sherlock Holmes' Most Famous Cases), published by ""Verlagshaus für Volksliteratur und Kunst"", and comprised 230 issues in total, published until June 1911. The name ""Sherlock Holmes"" was actually used for the first 10 issues. After"
"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1893, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle had decided that these would be the last collection of Holmes's stories, and intended to kill him off in ""The Final Problem"". Reader demand stimulated him to write another Holmes adventure—""The Hound of the Baskervilles"". In ""The Return of Sherlock Holmes"", Holmes relates the aftermath of ""The Final Problem"", and how he survived. The first London edition of the ""Memoirs"" in 1894 did not include ""The Adventure of the Cardboard Box"", although all twelve"
"Conan Doyle was first able to publish his Sherlock Holmes mystery series. He also founded other magazine titles, including ""The Westminster Gazette"" (1873), ""The Wide World Magazine"" (1888), and ""Country Life"" (1897). In 1891 his publishing business was formed into a company that bore his name, George Newnes Ltd. The company was reconstructed in 1897 with a capital of 1,000,000 pounds, and began the publication of books. Politically, Newnes was Liberal, and he refounded the ""Westminster Gazette"" to support the party when the ""Pall Mall Gazette"" became a Unionist paper. In 1885 he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP)"
"Sherlock Holmes"" in the Shi Wu Bao Newspaper, which inspired him to write detective stories of his own. Cheng Xiaoqing published his first detective story titled ""The Shadow in the Lamplight"" in ""The Merry Magazine"" in 1914. He later entered this piece in a Shanghai newspaper contest and won. In 1946, Cheng became the editor of detective magazine ""The New Detective"", but because of the lack of story sources, the magazine then shut down. After the publication was stopped, Cheng became a teacher working in The No.1 Middle School in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. Ten years later, Cheng began to write"
"offices were in Burleigh Street off The Strand, London. It was revived in 1998 as a quarterly magazine. It was normally bound as six-monthly volumes, from January to June and July to December, but from the mid-1930s this varied, and the final volumes in the late 1940s ran from October to March and April to September, the final volume CXVIII (118) running from October 1949 to March 1950. The Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle were first published in ""The Strand"" with illustrations by Sidney Paget. With the serialisation of Doyle's ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"", sales reached"
"were Wilkie Collins, inventor of the detective novel with ""The Moonstone"" and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who created the Sherlock Holmes stories originally for serialization in ""The Strand"" magazine. While American periodicals first syndicated British writers, over time they drew from a growing base of domestic authors. The rise of the periodicals like ""Harper's"" and the ""Atlantic Monthly"" grew in symbiotic tandem with American literary talent. The magazines nurtured and provided an economic sustainability for writers, while the writers helped grow the periodicals' circulation base. During the late 19th century, those that were considered the best American writers first published"
"in a book title ""Les aventures de Harry Dickson, scénario pour un film (non-réalisé) par Alain Resnais de Frédéric Towarnicki"" - Capricci Editions - Paris décembre 2007 Harry Dickson Harry Dickson is a fictional pulp detective, born in America, educated in London, and was called ""The American Sherlock Holmes"". He has appeared in almost 200 pulp magazines published in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. The original pulp dime-novel series that later became ""Harry Dickson"" began in Germany in January 1907 under the title of ""Detektiv Sherlock Holmes und seine weltberühmten Abenteuer"" (Sherlock Holmes' Most Famous Cases), published by ""Verlagshaus"
"to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."" The story, and its main characters, attracted little public interest when it first appeared. Only 11 complete copies of the magazine in which the story first appeared, ""Beeton's Christmas Annual"" for 1887, are known to exist now and they have considerable value. Although Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories featuring Holmes, ""A Study in Scarlet"" is one of only four full-length novels in the original canon. The novel was followed by ""The Sign of the Four"", published in 1890. ""A Study in Scarlet"" was the first work of"
"the address of 221b Baker Street then the area of Abbey House of the Abbey Road Building Society. A company official of the Building Society named Samuel William Gibson Morton had answered letters addressed to Sherlock Holmes that had been previously sent there. After 15 issues, the floundering magazine was taken over by Norman Kark Publishing, who published the magazine on a quarterly basis until 1982. Austen Kark edited the magazine for two years. London Mystery Magazine London Mystery Magazine (the word ""The"" was dropped off the cover after the fourth issue) was the longest running British Mystery magazine lasting"
"first Sherlock Holmes novel, ""A Study in Scarlet"", which was also the first Sherlock Holmes adventure. Friston created four pictures for the story, which were engraved by W.M.R. Quick, and published in the 1887 issue of ""Beeton's Christmas Annual"". Friston's pictures are acknowledged to be the first portraits of the Holmes character. The annual was issued in November at a price of one shilling and had sold out before Christmas. ""The Bookman"" of New York noted, in 1932, that Friston's Holmes had attracted some criticism: ""For the initial appearance of a detective whose exploits were to be recorded for nearly"
"of Crime Fiction"", crime fiction from the past 100 years has generally contained 8 key rules to be a detective novel: Sherlock Holmes is British detective fiction written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The first appearance of Sherlock Holmes is at “A study in Scarlet”. At first, Sherlock Holmes did not result massive success, however starting from 1891, after published Sherlock Holmes at “Strand Magazine”, it became unquestionably popular. After Sherlock Holmes, many detective stories followed Conan Doyle’s structure and also include characters which have Sherlock Holmes characteristics. Sherlock Holmes as a series is perhaps the most popular form of"
"found in the first stories: cricket, high society, West End clubs, Bond Street jewellersand two men in immaculate evening dress pulling off impossible robberies. While Raffles and Bunny were based largely on Holmes and Watson, several of the Holmes stories, including the story of his return from the dead, were not published until after Hornung had published ""The Amateur Cracksman"" in 1899, and ""The Black Mask"" in 1901. Arthur Conan Doyle killed off Holmes in June 1892, in ""The Adventure of the Final Problem"" in the ""Strand Magazine"", and did not write of him again until ""The Hound of the"
"The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes is a series of three annotated books edited by Leslie S. Klinger, collecting all of Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories and novels about Sherlock Holmes. The books were originally published by W. W. Norton in oversized slipcased hardcover editions. The first two volumes containing the short stories were published on November 17, 2004, with the third volume containing the novels following a year later on November 17, 2005. Each volume was subsequently published separately on November 5, 2007 without a slipcase. This publication of the Sherlock Holmes canon has been"
"Sherlock Holmes pastiches Sherlock Holmes has long been a popular character for pastiche, Holmes-related work by authors and creators other than Arthur Conan Doyle. Their works can be grouped into four broad categories: New Sherlock Holmes stories fall into many categories, including: In 1913 the Greek novel ""Sherlock Holmes saving Mr. Venizelos"" (""Ο Σέρλοκ Χολμς σώζων τον κ. Βενιζέλον"") was serialized in the magazine ""Hellas"". Written by an anonymous author, it describes Holmes' attempts to save Eleftherios Venizelos from a Bulgarian organization's assassination plot during the London Conference of 1912–13. It is considered the first detective novel of the Greek"
"called ""definitive"" and ""a landmark in Sherlockian publishing."" The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes is a series of three annotated books edited by Leslie S. Klinger, collecting all of Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories and novels about Sherlock Holmes. The books were originally published by W. W. Norton in oversized slipcased hardcover editions. The first two volumes containing the short stories were published on November 17, 2004, with the third volume containing the novels following a year later on November 17, 2005. Each volume was subsequently published separately on November 5, 2007 without a slipcase. This"
"confusing the issue of the title, some later publishers released the collection under the title ""The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes"" (""Casebook"" as a single word). The first edition of ""The Case-Book"", published by John Murray in 1927, does not present the stories in the order in which they were published: The copyrights for Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories expired in 1980 in Canada and in 2000 in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the only Sherlock Holmes works by Doyle still protected by copyrights are ten of the twelve short stories from ""The Case Book"". The first two stories (""The"
"revived ""Harper's Weekly"" depended on contributions from readers for much of its content. On January 14, 1893, ""Harper's Weekly"" became the first American magazine to publish a Sherlock Holmes story—""The Adventure of the Cardboard Box"". Harper's Weekly Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City. Published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916, it featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects, and humor, alongside illustrations. It carried extensive coverage of the American Civil War, including many illustrations of events from the war. During its most influential period, it"
"The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire ""The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire"", written by British author Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 Sherlock Holmes stories collected between 1921 and 1927 as ""The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes"". It was first published in the January 1924 issues of ""The Strand Magazine"" in London and ""Hearst's International Magazine"" in New York. Holmes receives an odd letter that makes reference to vampires. Mr. Robert Ferguson, who comes to 221B Baker Street the next morning, has become convinced that his Peruvian second wife has been sucking their baby son's blood. By his first wife,"
"In 1948, he became assistant editor of the ""Strand Magazine"", then edited by Macdonald Hastings. The ""Strand"" was well known for first publishing the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle and later the stories of P. G. Wodehouse. However, by the late 1940s, the magazine was suffering from falling circulation and rising costs; it published its final issue in March 1950. Usborne then worked on the ""Leader Magazine"" before going back to work in advertising. He continued in this field for the rest of his career, eventually becoming a director of the advertising company, Graham and Gillies. In an"
"Herbert Greenhough Smith Herbert Greenhough Smith (1855 – 14 January 1935) was the first editor of ""The Strand Magazine"" which published many of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. His active support and encouragement to Conan Doyle, and the magazine's vigorous promotion of the Sherlock Holmes character, had much to do with the character's success. Born in Stroud in 1855, the eldest of the eight children of Alfred Smith (1821–1896) and his wife Eleanor née Greenhough (1821–1896), Herbert was given his mother's maiden name as a middle name and subsequently used it as a double surname. He attended St. John's"
"The Final Problem ""The Final Problem"" is a short story by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in ""Strand Magazine"" under the title ""The Adventure of the Final Problem"" in December 1893. It appears in book form as part of the collection ""The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"". This story, set in 1891, introduced Holmes's greatest opponent, the criminal mastermind Professor James Moriarty. Conan Doyle later ranked ""The Final Problem"" fourth on his personal list of the twelve best Holmes stories. Holmes arrives at Dr. John Watson's residence one evening in a"
"pressed for a royalty instead). It was illustrated by David Henry Friston. The novel was first published as a book in July 1888 by Ward, Lock & Co., and featured drawings by the author's father, Charles Doyle. A second edition appeared the following year and was illustrated by George Hutchinson; a year later in 1890, J. B. Lippincott & Co. released the first American version. Numerous further editions, translations and dramatisations have appeared since. As the first Sherlock Holmes story published, ""A Study in Scarlet"" was among the first to be adapted to the screen. In 1914, Conan Doyle authorised"
"The Adventure of the Speckled Band ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"" is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the eighth of the twelve stories collected in ""The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"". It is one of four Sherlock Holmes stories that can be classified as a locked room mystery. The story was first published in ""Strand Magazine"" in February 1892, with illustrations by Sidney Paget. It was published under the different title ""The Spotted Band"" in ""New York World"" in August 1905. Doyle later revealed that he thought"
"ballets, films, musicals, operettas, oratorios, plays, radio and television programs, parodies and pastiches, children's books, cartoons, comics, and a multitude of other items — from advertisements to wine — that have accumulated throughout the world on the two most famous characters in literature."" Three ""Sherlock Holmes"" adaptations have appeared in American newspapers. The first, titled ""Sherlock Holmes"", ran from 1930 to 1931. ""Sherlock Holmes"" was drawn by Leo O'Mealia (who later drew covers for ""Action Comics"") and distributed by the Bell Syndicate. A short-lived half-page Sherlock Holmes comic strip appeared daily and Sunday in the 1950s, written by radio scriptwriter"
"in the Rue Morgue"" by Edgar Allan Poe (1841) as may have been Voltaire's ""Zadig"". Wilkie Collins' epistolary novel ""The Woman in White"" was published in 1860, while ""The Moonstone"" (1868) is often thought to be his masterpiece. In 1887 Arthur Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes, whose mysteries are said to have been singularly responsible for the huge popularity in this genre. The genre began to expand near the turn of century with the development of dime novels and pulp magazines. Books were especially helpful to the genre, with many authors writing in the genre in the 1920s. An important"
"which he created The Library of St. John the Beheaded as a meeting place for the worlds of Sherlock Holmes and ""Doctor Who"". The first book in the 'Young Sherlock Holmes' series – """" – was published in the United Kingdom in June 2010 (February 2011 in the United States), with the second – """" – published in the United Kingdom in November of that year (with a United States publication date under the title ""Rebel Fire"" of February 2012). The third book – """" – was published in June 2011 in the UK while the fourth book – ""Fire"
"cutouts of fairies in their garden. Elsie’s mother had shared the photos at a Bradford Theosophical Society meeting on nature spirits. They then gained the attention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes serious and notable member of the Fairy Investigation Society. He published the photos along with an article in the 1920 Christmas edition of the ""Strand Magazine"". The photos made international headlines, and the Fairy Investigation Society acquired momentum toward its creation. The first mention of the Fairy Investigation Society was in cofounder Barnard Sleigh’s 1926 novel entitled ""The Gates of the Horn Being Sundry"
"The Notting Hill Mystery The Notting Hill Mystery (1862–63) is an English-language detective novel written under the pseudonym ""Charles Felix"", with illustrations by George du Maurier. The author's identity was never formally revealed in his lifetime, but several critics have since suggested Charles Warren Adams (1833–1903), a lawyer known to have written other novels under pseudonyms. It is arguably regarded as the very first detective novel in the English language. ""The Notting Hill Mystery"" was first published as an eight-part serial in ""Once A Week"" magazine beginning on 29 November 1862, then as a single-volume novel in 1865 by Saunders,"
"du Roi des Détectives"" (The Secret Files of the King of Detectives) with issue No. 2. In December 1927, the Dutch-Flemish publisher Roman-Boek-en-Kunsthandel launched a Dutch translation of the original German series, this time entitled ""Harry Dickson de Amerikaansche Sherlock Holmes"" (Harry Dickson, the American Sherlock Holmes). The name ""Harry Dickson"" may have been inspired by that of Harry Taxon (from the German edition above), or by writer Arnould Galopin's ""Allan Dickson, the King of Australian Detectives"" which had been created in the early 1900s. Allan Dickson even met Sherlock Holmes in ""L'Homme au Complet Gris"" (The Man in Grey)"