"Sherlock Holmes the following year in ""A Study in Scarlet"". Owen is the first of only four actors to play both Holmes and Watson — Jeremy Brett played Watson on stage in the United States and, most famously, Holmes on British television, Carleton Hobbs played both roles in British radio adaptations, while Patrick Macnee played both roles in US television movies. ""Uncredited:"" Sherlock Holmes (1932 film) Sherlock Holmes (a.k.a. Conan Doyle's Master Detective Sherlock Holmes) is a 1932 American Pre-Code film starring Clive Brook as the eponymous London detective. The movie is based on the successful stage play ""Sherlock Holmes"""
"The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve (out of a total of fifty-six) Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the ""Strand Magazine"" between October 1921 and April 1927. The first British edition and the first American edition of the collection were both published in June 1927. However, they had slightly different titles. The title of the British collection was ""The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes"" (hyphenated ""Case-Book""), whereas the title of the American edition was ""The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes"" (""Case Book"" as two words). Further"
"a daily pension of 11 shillings and 6 pence for nine months. In 1881, Watson is introduced by his friend Stamford to Sherlock Holmes, who is looking for someone to share rent at a flat in 221B Baker Street. Concluding that they are compatible, they subsequently move into the flat. When Watson notices multiple eccentric guests frequenting the flat, Holmes reveals that he is a ""consulting detective"" and that the guests are his clients. Watson witnesses Holmes's skills of deduction on their first case together, concerning a series of murders related to Mormon intrigue. When the case is solved, Watson"
"A Case of Identity ""A Case of Identity"" is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and is the third story in ""The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"". The story revolves around the case of Miss Mary Sutherland, a woman with a substantial income from the interest on a fund set up for her. She is engaged to a quiet Londoner who has recently disappeared. Sherlock Holmes' detective powers are barely challenged as this turns out to be quite an elementary case for him, much as it puzzles Watson. The fiancé, Mr. Hosmer Angel,"
"this was his best Holmes story. Doyle wrote and produced a play based on the story. It premiered at the Adelphi Theatre, London on 4 June 1910, with H. A. Saintsbury as Sherlock Holmes and Lyn Harding as Dr. Grimesby Roylott. The play, originally called ""The Stonor Case"", differs from the story in several details, such as the names of some of the characters. Shy Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson rise unusually early one night to meet a young woman named Helen Stoner. Helen fears that her life is being threatened by her step-father, Roylott, a doctor who practiced in"
"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"
"identity. A Case of Identity ""A Case of Identity"" is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and is the third story in ""The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"". The story revolves around the case of Miss Mary Sutherland, a woman with a substantial income from the interest on a fund set up for her. She is engaged to a quiet Londoner who has recently disappeared. Sherlock Holmes' detective powers are barely challenged as this turns out to be quite an elementary case for him, much as it puzzles Watson. The fiancé, Mr. Hosmer"
"Sherlock Holmes"" starring Jeremy Brett as Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Watson. In ""The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson"", a 1980 Soviet film, the characters briefly allude to the case at the beginning by mentioning a person poisoned with opium in mutton under garlic sauce (the traditional translation of ""curried mutton"" in the story, since curry was a relatively obscure spice in Russia at the time most translations were made). ""In the Company of Sherlock Holmes"" (a collection of short stories that relate to Sherlock Holmes), includes a short story ""The Memoir of Silver Blaze,"" which is the"
"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892; the individual stories had been serialised in ""The Strand Magazine"" between July 1891 and June 1892. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view. In general the stories in ""The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"" identify, and try to correct, social injustices."
"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"
"The Adventure of the Gloria Scott ""The Adventure of the ""Gloria Scott"""", 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 Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"". It is chronologically the earliest case in Sherlock Holmes canon. This story is related mainly by Holmes rather than Watson, and is the first case to which Holmes applied his powers of deduction, having treated it as a mere hobby until this time. This is one of the two Sherlock Holmes stories in which a protagonist is"
"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"
"Holmes Story"" (1978), Ellery Queen's ""A Study in Terror"" (1966), John Sladek's ""Black Aura"" (1974), and Barrie Roberts' ""Sherlock Holmes and the Royal Flush"" (1998) amongst others. The first influential short story, ""The Lodger"" by Marie Belloc Lowndes, was published in ""McClure's Magazine"" in 1911 and novelised in 1913. It features a London couple, Mr and Mrs Bunting, who suspect that their lodger, Mr Sleuth, is a mysterious killer known as ""The Avenger"", clearly based on the Ripper. Whether Sleuth really is ""The Avenger"" is left open: the focus of the story is on the Buntings' psychological terror, which may"
"diseases of the eye. Within three months of his departure for Vienna, Doyle returned to London. He opened a small office and consulting room at 2 Upper Wimpole Street, or 2 Devonshire Place as it was then. A Westminster City Council commemorative plaque is over the front door. He had no patients according to his autobiography and his efforts as an ophthalmologist were a failure. Doyle struggled to find a publisher for his work. His first work featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, ""A Study in Scarlet"", was taken by Ward Lock & Co on 20 November 1886, giving Doyle"
"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"
"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"
"to ""discover"" the murder when the room was unlocked in fact committed it just then. In 1887, Scotsman Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) gave fresh impetus to the emerging form of the detective story by creating Sherlock Holmes, resident at 221B Baker Street, London—probably the most famous of fictional detectives and the first one to have clients, to be hired to solve a case. Holmes's art of detection consists in logical deduction based on minute details that escape everyone else's notice, and the careful and systematic elimination of all clues that in the course of his investigation turn out to"
"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"
"began with Sherlock Holmes writer, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The character Sherlock Holmes claimed to be able to identify where an individual had been by various methods, including his having memorized the exposed geology of London to such a degree that detecting certain clays on a person's shoe would give away a locale. Georg Popp, of Frankfurt, Germany, may have been the first to use soil analysis for linking suspects to a crime scene. In 1891, Hans Gross used microscopic analysis of soils and other materials from a suspect's shoes to link him to the crime scene. Forensic geology Forensic"
"""Columbo"", and the role of Jessica Fletcher had been first offered to Jean Stapleton, who declined the role, as did Doris Day. The pilot episode, ""The Murder of Sherlock Holmes"", premiered on CBS on September 30, 1984, with the rest of the first season airing on Sundays from 8 to 9 p.m. Although critical reviews were mixed, it proved highly popular, with the pilot having a Nielsen rating of 18.9 and the first season being rated top in its time slot. Designed as inoffensive family viewing, despite its topic the show eschewed depicting violence or gore, following the ""whodunit"" format"
"Sherlock Holmes in the Great Murder Mystery Sherlock Holmes in the Great Murder Mystery is a 1908 American silent film directed by an unknown director. The film was released on 27 November 1908 and is an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue"" (1841), which is considered the first detective story, though the plot was altered to include Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes instead of Poe's C. Auguste Dupin. Dr. Watson makes his film debut here, though the actors playing Holmes and Watson are unknown, as the rest of the cast. It is"
"considered a lost film. Sherlock Holmes in the Great Murder Mystery Sherlock Holmes in the Great Murder Mystery is a 1908 American silent film directed by an unknown director. The film was released on 27 November 1908 and is an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue"" (1841), which is considered the first detective story, though the plot was altered to include Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes instead of Poe's C. Auguste Dupin. Dr. Watson makes his film debut here, though the actors playing Holmes and Watson are unknown, as the rest of"
"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"
"The Adventure of the Illustrious Client ""The Adventure of the Illustrious Client"" (1924) is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of the 12 stories collected as ""The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes"". Sir James Damery comes to see Holmes and Watson about his illustrious client's problem (the client's identity is never revealed to the reader, although Watson finds out at the end of the story; it is heavily implied to be King Edward VII). General de Merville's young daughter Violet has fallen in love with the roguish and sadistic"
"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"
"solve the most complex cases. He is assisted in his work by military veteran, Dr. John Watson, whom he shares a flat with at 221b Baker Street. In 1964, the BBC secured rights to adapt any five Sherlock Holmes stories with an option for a further eight from the Doyle estate. A handful of Doyle's stories were excluded from the deal: ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"" because Hammer Films' rights would not expire until 1965 following their 1959 film adaptation, and ""A Scandal in Bohemia"", ""The Final Problem"" and ""The Adventure of the Empty House"" which had been secured by"
"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,"
"Young Sherlock Holmes Young Sherlock Holmes (also known with the title card name of ""Pyramid of Fear"") is a 1985 American mystery adventure film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Chris Columbus, based on the characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film depicts a young Sherlock Holmes and John Watson meeting and solving a mystery together at a boarding school. Teenagers Sherlock Holmes and John Watson meet and become good friends as students at Brompton Academy, a school in London. Watson is introduced to Elizabeth Hardy, who is Holmes' love interest. He is also introduced to Rupert"
"The Adventure of the Three Garridebs ""The Adventure of the Three Garridebs"" (1924), 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"". According to Dr. Watson's opening narration, this story is set at ""the latter end of June, 1902 ... the same month that Holmes refused a knighthood for services which may perhaps some day be described."" This is a parallel to the knighthood of Arthur Conan Doyle around the same time. Holmes receives a letter from a"
"finally, in ""La Comtesse de Cagliostro"", Lupin's arch-enemy and lover is none other than Joséphine Balsamo, the alleged granddaughter of Cagliostro himself. Leblanc introduced Sherlock Holmes to Lupin in the short story ""Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late"" in ""Je sais tout"" No. 17, 15 June 1906. In it, an aged Holmes meets a young Lupin for the first time. After legal objections from Doyle, the name was changed to ""Herlock Sholmes"" when the story was collected in book form in Volume 1. Sholmes returned in two more stories collected in Volume 2, ""Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes"", and then in"
"a far stronger resemblance to the dog in ""A Study in Scarlet"" upon which Holmes tests out the murderer's poison pills (and in so doing euthanises the hound.) In the BBC series ""Sherlock"", in the first episode of the fourth season titled The Six Thatchers, Sherlock Holmes requires the services of a bloodhound named Toby. Wiggins is a street urchin in London and head of the Baker Street Irregulars. He has no first name in the stories. His first appearance is in ""A Study in Scarlet"" (1886). The film ""The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes"", directed by Billy Wilder, features"
"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"
"the character of Sherlock Holmes, since it was preceded only by the 30-second comedy film ""Sherlock Holmes Baffled"" (1900). However, Holmesian scholar Leslie S. Klinger has written that the identification of Costello in the role is flawed. Klinger states that the first identification of Costello with the role was in Michael Pointer's ""Public Life of Sherlock Holmes"" published in 1975 but Pointer later realized his error and wrote to Klinger stating Costello joined Vitagraph, being a member of the first motion picture stock company ever formed, playing opposite Florence Turner. Among some of his best known pictures are ""A Tale"