"and documents which have been discovered are stored for the player to review. After the release of the ported ""Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper"", Frogwares and French publisher Focus Home Interactive got feedback from console players in particular that they wanted more adventure games with 3D graphics and production values to match what other genres are offering. And Frogwares admitted to be eager in delivering one, though Waël Amr, the CEO, insists this does not mean forgetting about PC players, as some already speculated. The development of the game took nearly three years to complete. Waël Amr explains that"
"Holmes and Norman Shelley as Watson. In 1979 composer Raimonds Pauls and songwriter, poet Jānis Peters wrote a musical ""Šerloks Holmss."" It premiered in Dailes Theatre with Valentīns Skulme as Holmes and Gunārs Placēns as Watson. There was a 2006 revival, again in Dailes Theatre. Gillette's Holmes is widely credited with being the first to utter ""Elementary, my dear Watson""—a phrase that never appears in Conan Doyle's stories—but the phrase cannot be definitely attributed to Gillette as its originator. The phrase that appears in the various texts ranges from ""Ho! (""Sneer"".) Elementary!"" (1922 Samuel French text; Act II Scene II),"
"The Adventure of the Lion's Mane ""The Adventure of the Lion's Mane"" (1926), one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as ""The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes"". It is notable for being narrated by Holmes himself, instead of by Dr. Watson (who does not appear in the story). Holmes is enjoying his retirement in Sussex when one day at the beach, he meets his friend Harold Stackhurst, the headmaster of a nearby preparatory school called The Gables. No sooner have they met than"
"as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey) became a successful character for a number of authors. The phrase ""Elementary, my dear Watson"" is never uttered by Holmes in the sixty stories written by Conan Doyle. He often observes that his conclusions are ""elementary"", however, and occasionally calls Watson ""my dear Watson"". One of the nearest approximations of the phrase appears in ""The Adventure of the Crooked Man"" when Holmes explains a deduction: Excellent!' I cried. 'Elementary,' said he."" William Gillette is widely considered to have originated the phrase with the formulation, ""Oh, this is elementary,"
"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"
"in the list of characters, but named in the text. Several characters from the canon appear in Alan Moore's comic book series ""The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"", in which various characters from Victorian fiction are recruited to serve the interests of an alternate-history British Empire. Holmes himself appears only in a flashback during the first series, as he is still presumed dead. Mycroft has a more substantial role in the second series. References in the series suggest Sherlock was a member of an earlier iteration of the League. Moriarty also figures into the first series and the film adaptation. Holmes"
"heart,"" indicating that he has been attracted to women in some way on occasion, but has not been interested in pursuing relationships with them. Ultimately, however, in ""The Adventure of the Devil's Foot"", he claims outright that ""I have never loved"". At the end of ""The Sign of Four"", Holmes states that ""love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things. I should never marry myself, lest I bias my judgement."" Despite his overall attitude, Holmes is adept at effortlessly putting his clients at ease, and Watson"
"of Charles Augustus Milverton"". Holmes derives pleasure from baffling police inspectors with his deductions and has supreme confidence—bordering on arrogance—in his intellectual abilities. While the detective does not actively seek fame and is usually content to let the police take public credit for his work, he is pleased when his skills are recognised and responds to flattery. Except for that of Watson, Holmes avoids casual company. In ""The Adventure of the ""Gloria Scott"""", he tells the doctor that during two years at college he made only one friend: ""I was never a very sociable fellow, Watson ... I never mixed"
"trivial actions may mean volumes ... their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs"". In ""The Sign of the Four"", he says, ""I would not tell them too much. Women are never to be entirely trusted—not the best of them"". Watson says in ""The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"" that the detective inevitably ""manifested no further interest in the client when once she had ceased to be the centre of one of his problems"". In ""The Lion's Mane"", Holmes writes, ""Women have seldom been an attraction to me, for my brain has always governed my"
"Meyer, ""The West End Horror"" (1976) and ""The Canary Trainer"" (1993), neither of which has been adapted to film. ""The Seven-Per-Cent Solution"" was ranked ninth in the ""Publishers Weekly"" list of bestselling novels from 1974 and made ""The New York Times"" Best Seller list for forty weeks between September 15, 1974 and June 22, 1975. An introduction states that two canonical Holmes adventures were fabrications. These are ""The Final Problem"", in which Holmes apparently died along with Prof. James Moriarty, and ""The Empty House"", wherein Holmes reappeared after a three-year absence and revealed that he had not been killed after"
"Lion's Mane"" was indirectly referenced in the BBC adaptation ""Sherlock"" in ""The Six Thatchers"", where Sherlock and John, while solving cases, jokingly comment on the stupidity of arresting a jellyfish. The Adventure of the Lion's Mane ""The Adventure of the Lion's Mane"" (1926), one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as ""The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes"". It is notable for being narrated by Holmes himself, instead of by Dr. Watson (who does not appear in the story). Holmes is enjoying his retirement"
"On the prop version of the map made for the films, the lines are made up of what at first glance are just random letters, but upon closer inspection are Latin words. The series makes no mention of Harry recovering the map from Moody's office, even though he continued to use it in later books; when asked about this discrepancy, Rowling answered that Harry had indeed sneaked into the office and recovered it in the days following the Third Task, and that she had forgotten to include this detail in the book. When asked during an online question session, ""What"
"cape, which can be buttoned up in the front. Arguably the most famous example in fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective Sherlock Holmes is often associated with the Inverness cape. In the Holmes novels, Holmes is described as wearing an Ulster. Holmes's distinctive look, which was usually complemented with a deerstalker cap and a calabash pipe, is a composite of images, originally credited to illustrator Sidney Paget. But as adapted to the stage by the actor-playwright William Gillette, Holmes did not wear a cape-coat at all, and the origin of the calabash pipe is something of a mystery, although it"
"Holmes by himself. Upon returning to the ""Englischer Hof"", Watson finds that the innkeeper has no knowledge of any sick Englishwoman. Realising at last that he has been deceived, he rushes back to Reichenbach Falls but finds no one there, although he does see two sets of footprints going out onto the muddy dead end path with none returning. There is also a note from Holmes, explaining that he knew the report Watson was given to be a hoax and that he is about to fight Moriarty, who has graciously given him enough time to pen this last letter. Watson"
"man exhibiting many of the prototypical characteristics of Holmes. Frost wrote a follow-up novel called ""The Six Messiahs"". A particularly rich area of ""research"" is the ""uncovering"" of details about Holmes' family history and early life, of which almost nothing is said in Conan Doyle's stories. In ""The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter"", Watson states: ""I had never heard him refer to his relations, and hardly ever to his early life."" But in that story, as well as introducing his brother, Holmes mentions the only facts about his family that are in any of the stories — ""My ancestors were"
"from then until 1927, eventually totalling four novels and 56 short stories. All but one are set in the Victorian or Edwardian eras, between about 1880 and 1914. Most are narrated by the character of Holmes's friend and biographer Dr. Watson, who usually accompanies Holmes during his investigations and often shares quarters with him at the address of 221B Baker Street, London, where many of the stories begin. Though not the first fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes is arguably the best known, with ""Guinness World Records"" listing him as the ""most portrayed movie character"" in history. Holmes's popularity and fame are"
"to that portrayed in the comic book and film ""From Hell"". Both are derived from Stephen Knight's book "" (1977)"". In 1985, director Barry Levinson made a film called ""Young Sherlock Holmes"" (a.k.a. ""Young Sherlock Holmes and the Pyramid of Fear"") with a story about the youth of Holmes and Watson as Secondary School students and their first great adventure, even before ""A Study in Scarlet"". There are a lot of references about Holmes canon such as the violin, the pipe, ""elementary, my dear..."", the clothes and the reason why Holmes never married, and it includes the first meeting of"
"Broached"". Miles refuses to speak of Holmes, referring to him only as ""the other chap"". Frequent speculation as to the ""real"" Holmes has existed since publication, and Mark Frost's novel ""The List of Seven"" (1993) and its sequel ""The Six Messiahs"" (1995) are not the first to put a spin on this. Frost has Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as its main character and tells the (fictional) story of how Doyle's Holmes was inspired by Johnathon Sparks, a mysterious man who saves Doyle's life from a mad occultist. The Wold Newton family series connects multiple famous fictional characters together to a"
"stories, which are about that very character but are literally false. Holmes really exists, but is only depicted as a detective in the fiction. In the fiction, Holmes is a detective; in reality, Holmes is merely a fictional detective. Salmon extends this view to what he calls ""mythical objects"", like the hypothetical planet, Vulcan. Vulcan really exists, but it is not a real planet. It is an abstract entity that is only depicted as a planet in the myth. Salmon's account of fiction and myth thus has direct application to the philosophy of religion. Salmon has also applied his account"
"lead nowhere. Conan Doyle also introduced Dr. John H. Watson, a physician who acts as Holmes's assistant and who also shares Holmes's flat in Baker Street with him. In the words of William L De Andrea, Many of the great fictional detectives have their Watson: Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, for example, is often accompanied by Captain Arthur Hastings. Hastings, however, appeared only intermittently in those Poirot novels and stories written after 1925 and only once in those written after 1937. The 1920s and 30s are commonly known as the ""Golden Age"" of detective fiction. Most of its authors were British:"
"was never issued. Holmes died quietly after falling asleep in the afternoon of Sunday, October 7, 1894. As his son Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote, ""His death was as peaceful as one could wish for those one loves. He simply ceased to breathe."" Holmes's memorial service was held at King's Chapel and overseen by Edward Everett Hale. Holmes was buried alongside his wife in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Holmes is one of the Fireside Poets, together with William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and John Greenleaf Whittier. These poets—whose writing was characterized as family-friendly and"
"as ""props"" to the Sherlock Holmes character. Gillette formulated the complete phrase: """"Oh, this is elementary, my dear fellow"""", which was later reused by Clive Brook, the first spoken-cinema Holmes, as: """"Elementary, my dear Watson"""", Holmes's best known line and one of the most famous expressions in the English language. Irene Adler was ""The Woman"" of the Holmes canon, but she was replaced by Alice Faulkner, a young and beautiful lady who was planning to avenge her sister's murder but eventually fell in love with Holmes; and the pageboy, nameless in the Canon, was given the name Billy by Gillette,"
"who only knew me through your memoirs""; and in ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"", chapters 5–6, Holmes says: ""Watson, Watson, if you are an honest man you will record this also and set it against my successes!""; whereas in his prologue to ""The Adventure of the Yellow Face,"" Watson himself remarked: ""In publishing these short sketches [of Holmes’s cases]...it is only natural that I should dwell rather upon his successes than upon his failures"", on grounds that where Holmes failed, often nobody else succeeded. Sometimes Watson (and through him, Conan Doyle) seems determined to stop publishing stories about Holmes: in"
"of her with the King. Holmes had then asked for and received this photo from the King, as payment for his work on the case. In ""The Five Orange Pips"" he comments to a client that he has been defeated on a mere handful of occasions and only once by a woman. In derivative works, she is frequently used as a romantic interest for Holmes, a departure from Doyle's novels where he only admired her for her wit and cunning. In his ""Sherlock Holmes Handbook"", Christopher Redmond notes ""the Canon provides little basis for either sentimental or prurient speculation about"
"time, and Alec says that he had also still been up. Holmes knows that they are lying. No burglar with any sense would break into a house when he could see by the lit lamps that someone was still afoot. Also, William's body has no powder burns on it; so he was not shot at point-blank range as the Cunninghams claim. The escape route also does not bear their story out: there is a boggy ditch next to the road that the fleeing murderer would have had to cross, yet there are no signs of any footprints in it. Holmes"
"world in his stories, which often embellish events, based on the cynical advice of a veteran Publisher (Alexander Adabashyan) with a keen sense of what sells. The real Holmes is an awkward, intense, nerdy younger man. His violin playing sounds terrible, and he is neither a martial arts expert nor a crack shot Dr Watson makes him out to be. In fact, he doesn't even own a gun. Sherlock Holmes smokes cigarettes, but Watson comes up with the idea of the famous pipe for effect. The trademark Sherlock Holmes hat and cape were made up by Watson, as was Holmes'"
"with ""considerable success"". ""The Copper Beeches"" (1912) was one of a series of eight silent film adaptations of the Holmes Stories that were actually supervised by Conan Doyle. It is the only one that has survived. It is altered in several respects. Instead of beginning with Ms Hunter's visit to Baker Street to tell her story, it starts with Rucastle trying to force his daughter to sign away her rights to her fortune, and then ordering her fiance off his property. Rucastle subsequently locks up his daughter. The film only has Holmes (no Watson), and there is no appearance of"
"and the philosophy of language. In educated opinion, at least, it is commonly reputed as true that ""Sherlock Holmes lived in London"". (see David Lewis 'Truth in Fiction', American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 15. No. 1, January 1978) It is also considered true that ""Samuel Pepys lived in London"". Yet Sherlock Holmes never lived anywhere at all; he is a fictional character. Samuel Pepys, contrarily, is judged to have been a real person. Contemporary interest in Holmes and in Pepys share strong similarities; the only reason why anyone knows either of their names is because of an abiding interest in reading"
"got from Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes, who had been killed off but was later brought back. Malcolm was also considered a favorite character among readers of the first novel and people who watched its film adaptation. An early draft of the novel included a lengthy tirade by Malcolm regarding God and evolution, but Crichton removed it ""because it just didn't seem to fit."" In March 1995, Crichton announced that he was nearly finished writing the novel, with a scheduled release for later that year. At the time, Crichton declined to specify the novel's title or plot. Crichton later"
"of the 60 combined Holmes works by Doyle. After this he is only mentioned by Holmes or Watson – in ""The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax"" and ""The Adventure of the Three Garridebs"" – as a working member of the Yard. The story's basic plot device is similar to that used by Doyle in the earlier ""Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"" where a stolen gem was hidden inside the belly of a goose - but the criminal is not sure which of the similar geese holds the jewel. ""The Pearl of Death"" is a 1944 Sherlock Holmes film that is"
"other authors have also written Sherlock Holmes stories based on the same references within the original tales. On 12 September 1942, the Associated Press announced that an authentic, unpublished Sherlock Holmes story had been found by Adrian Conan Doyle. Supposedly written in his father's uniquely neat handwriting, the story was buried in a chest that contained family documents. (Actually, Jon Lellenberg reported in 1990, the manuscript was not in Sir Arthur's handwriting but typewritten.) Sir Arthur's daughter Jean said she knew the manuscript was not written by her father. Adrian Conan Doyle refused to publish it. A month later, The"
"the help of his serum, Holmes prolonged his life for several decades. In 1990s he indirectly helped Martin Mystère to capture a villain who found a formula of his serum. Popular culture references to Sherlock Holmes Many writers make references to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous literary creation, the detective Sherlock Holmes, and these often become embedded within popular culture. While Holmes exists predominately in the context of Victorian-era London, he has been mentioned in such outre contexts as the 22nd century or hunting aliens or supernatural enemies. These references are in addition to the innumerable passing references to Sherlock"
"H. H. Holmes Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896), better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or more commonly known as H. H. Holmes, was an American serial killer. While he confessed to 27 murders, only nine could be plausibly confirmed and several of the people whom he claimed to have murdered were still alive. He is commonly said to have killed as many as 200, though this figure is only traceable to 1940s pulp magazines. Many victims were said to have been killed in a mixed-use building which he owned, located about west of the"