"Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud is the first novel in the Young Sherlock Holmes series that depicts Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes as a teenager in the 1860s and 70s. It was written by Andrew Lane and released in the UK on June 4, 2010 by Macmillan Books. After a month of holidays Sherlock discovers that his brother Mycroft has hired him an unusual American tutor named Amyus Crowe. During their first lesson together Sherlock finds a dead body on the Holmes' estate and witnesses the same cloud surrounding the body that Matty had"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"""
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"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)"
"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"
"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 background but Doyle was born and raised in England. Similarly"
"Maurice Leblanc Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (; ; 11 November 1864 – 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes. Leblanc was born in Rouen, Normandy, where he was educated at Lycée Pierre-Corneille. After studying in several countries and dropping out of law school, he settled in Paris and began to write fiction, both short crime stories and longer novels. The latter, heavily influenced by writers like Gustave Flaubert"
"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"
"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."
"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"
"Ian Gillies Ian Malcolm Gillies (7 December 1927 – 13 April 2002), known to many simply as Mycroft from BBC Radio 4's ""Brain of Britain"", was an accomplished quiz player and question setter in the United Kingdom. His character name was taken from Arthur Conan Doyle's Mycroft Holmes, the smarter older brother of Sherlock Holmes. He won the ""Brain of Britain"" final in 1964 and later the three-year competition ""Brain of Brains"" and the nine-year-final ""Top Brain"". Educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester and Jesus College, Oxford, he joined the Royal Air Force before retiring on medical grounds. He"
"Abramson, proprietor of Manhattan's Argus Book Shop and a Holmes aficionado, who published musings of the best-known Sherlockians. Within the close-knit Irregulars, Leavitt was known for his expertise in ballistics, optics and finances, sometimes combining them to examine the deeds of Conan Doyle's legendary hero. When not writing about Holmes, Leavitt chose the company of friends like fellow Baker Street Irregulars Christopher Morley and Elmer Davis, as well as other writers, reporters, advertising men and artists of the day. Leavitt had an only brother, Russell Greenleaf Leavitt, who graduated from Harvard College in 1917, and who subsequently received a deferment"
"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"
"Nigel Bruce William Nigel Ernle Bruce (4 February 1895 – 8 October 1953) was a British character actor on stage and screen. He was best known for his portrayal of Dr. Watson in a series of films and in the radio series ""The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"" (starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes). Bruce is also remembered for his roles in the Alfred Hitchcock films ""Rebecca"" and ""Suspicion"". Bruce was the second son of Sir William Waller Bruce, 10th Baronet (1856–1912) and his wife Angelica Lady Bruce (died 1917), daughter of General George Selby, Royal Artillery. He was born"
"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"
"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 Belvedere College, Dublin, University College Dublin, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In 1966 he married Barbara"
"lives and careers of the many character actors and actresses who supported Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in the 12 Holmes films made at Universal between 1942-1946. He was a widower living in San Clemente, California, when he died on August 17, 2014. He was 79. Michael A. Hoey Michael A. Hoey (1934 – August 17, 2014) was a British author and film and television writer, director, and producer. He was the son of Dennis Hoey, who played Inspector Lestrade in Universal's Sherlock Holmes series. Hoey began in Hollywood working as an editor. He later was given the opportunity to"
"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"
"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"
"be the most dangerous British propagandist. Ronald Howard (British actor) Ronald Howard (7 April 1918 – 19 December 1996) was an English actor and writer best known in the U.S. for starring in a weekly ""Sherlock Holmes"" television series in 1954. He was the son of actor Leslie Howard. Howard was born in South Norwood, London, the son of Ruth Evelyn (née Martin) and stage and screen actor Leslie Howard. He attended Tonbridge School. After graduating from Jesus College, Cambridge, Ronald Howard became a newspaper reporter for a while but decided to become an actor. His first film role was"
"The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (TV series) The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes is a British anthology mystery television series that was produced by Thames Television and originally broadcast on the ITV Network. There were two series of 13 fifty-minute episodes; the first aired in 1971, the second in 1973. The programme presented adaptations of short mystery, suspense or crime stories featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. ""The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes"" took its inspiration – and title – from a series of published anthologies by Hugh Greene, elder brother of"