"publication in the Eckert-edited ""Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe"" (MonkeyBrain Books, 2005), a collection of Wold Newton essays by Farmer and several other ""post-Farmerian"" contributors, authorised by Farmer as an extension of his Wold Newton mythos. He does not appear or is ever mentioned in any of the original stories of Sherlock Holmes and is not a creation of Doyle. Sherrinford Holmes is a proposed elder brother of Sherlock Holmes and Mycroft Holmes. His name is taken from early notes as one of those considered by Arthur Conan Doyle for his detective hero before"
"221B Baker Street 221B Baker Street is the London address of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, created by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the United Kingdom, postal addresses with a number followed by a letter may indicate a separate address within a larger, often residential building. Baker Street in the late 19th century was a high-class residential district, and Holmes' apartment would probably have been part of a Georgian terrace. At the time the Holmes stories were published, addresses in Baker Street did not go as high as 221. Baker Street was later extended, and in 1932 the Abbey"
"upstairs floor. In the United States, there is a pub/restaurant chain named ""Baker Street Pub,"" that plays off of the Sherlock Holmes theme. Some locations even have the iconic British red phone booth outside. The fictional address has been portrayed in the following pastiches of Sherlock Holmes: 221B Baker Street 221B Baker Street is the London address of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, created by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the United Kingdom, postal addresses with a number followed by a letter may indicate a separate address within a larger, often residential building. Baker Street in the late 19th"
"Street. In his first manuscript, Conan Doyle put Holmes' house in Upper Baker Street. However, a British crime novelist named Nigel Morland claimed that, late in Conan Doyle's life, he identified the junction of Baker Street and George Street, about 500 metres south of the Marylebone Road, as the location of 221B. Sherlockian experts have also held to alternative theories as to where the original 221B was located and have maintained that it was further down Baker Street. When street numbers were reallocated in the 1930s, the block of odd numbers from 215 to 229 was assigned to an Art"
"221B Baker Street (video game) 221B Baker Street is a 1986 computer game published by Datasoft, based on an earlier board game of the same name. The game was inspired by the exploits of Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and derives its title from the detective's residence at 221B Baker Street in London. Up to four players compete against each other to solve various mysteries in and around Victorian London. Each player can assume the role of one of four characters from the Sherlock Holmes books—Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Irene Adler or Inspector Lestrade—and can select from 30"
"its headquarters on the purported site of 221B Baker Street), decided to create an exhibition based on the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Four Holmes enthusiasts (with the support of the family of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) designed and planned the exhibition, collecting materials (many of them donated) for display, including a Persian slipper to hold Holmes’s tobacco, a gasogene for Dr Watson's soda, and a jack-knife for Holmes to pin his unanswered correspondence to the mantelpiece with. In Abbey House on Baker Street Holmes' sitting room at 221B Baker Street was created. Each day crumpets were supplied by a local"
"Street. ""We met next day as he had arranged, and inspected the rooms at No. 221B, Baker Street, of which he had spoken at our meeting. They consisted of a couple of comfortable bed-rooms and a single large airy sitting-room, cheerfully furnished, and illuminated by two broad windows.""<br>(Arthur Conan Doyle, ""A Study in Scarlet"", 1887) When the ""Sherlock Holmes"" stories were first published, street numbers in Baker Street did not go as high as 221. The section north of Marylebone Road near Regent's Park – now including 221 Baker Street – was known in Conan Doyle's lifetime as Upper Baker"
"Baker Street was the closest to the fictional ""221b"". Lancelyn Green was something of a showman, appearing as a 19th-century music hall master of ceremonies at events of the Sherlock Holmes Society, of which he was chairman from 1996 to 1999, and dressing in period costume to visit Reichenbach Falls, where Sherlock Holmes was thought to have died until Conan Doyle ""resurrected"" him eight years later. For his encyclopaedic knowledge of Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes, and for his scholarly works, he was well regarded among scholars of Holmes. Later in life, Lancelyn Green worked extensively on notes and"
"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"
"of a bronze statue of Sherlock Holmes that now stands at the entrance to Baker Street Underground station. The Sherlock Holmes Museum is situated within an 1815 townhouse very similar to the 221B described in the stories and is located between 237 and 241 Baker Street. It displays exhibits in period rooms, wax figures and Holmes memorabilia, with the famous study overlooking Baker Street the highlight of the museum. The description of the house can be found throughout the stories, including the 17 steps leading from the ground-floor hallway to the first-floor study. According to the published stories, ""221B Baker"
"ends when a player successfully passes the quiz. The original board game was created and copyrighted by American writer Jay Moriarty (dba Antler Productions) in 1975. 221B Baker Street (video game) 221B Baker Street is a 1986 computer game published by Datasoft, based on an earlier board game of the same name. The game was inspired by the exploits of Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and derives its title from the detective's residence at 221B Baker Street in London. Up to four players compete against each other to solve various mysteries in and around Victorian London. Each player"
"hers, but they also work for private citizens. They are often assisted by the new Baker Street Irregulars: soccer player Wiggins, the Cockney Deidre and the paraplegic Tennyson, who communicates through electronic beeps that only Holmes seems to be able to comprehend. The primary villains are Moriarty and his henchman Fenwick, appearing as they do in almost half of the produced episodes. Each episode is inspired by one of the literary works of Arthur Conan Doyle. Many of these are direct rewrites of the original stories, such as ""The Empty House"", ""The Speckled Band"", ""The Five Orange Pips"", ""The Red-Headed"
"Watson as a fellow lodger. The two take lodgings at 221B Baker Street, London, an apartment at the upper (north) end of the street, up seventeen steps. Holmes worked as a detective for twenty-three years, with physician John Watson assisting him for seventeen. They were roommates before Watson's 1888 marriage and again after his wife's death. Their residence is maintained by their landlady, Mrs. Hudson. Most of the stories are frame narratives, written from Watson's point of view as summaries of the detective's most interesting cases. Holmes frequently calls Watson's writing sensational and populist, suggesting that it fails to accurately"
"The Adventure of the Red Circle ""The Adventure of the Red Circle"" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. It is included in the anthology ""His Last Bow"". Mrs. Warren, a landlady, comes to 221B Baker Street with some questions about her lodger. A youngish, heavily bearded man, who spoke good but accented English who came to her and offered double her usual rent on the condition that he get the room on his own terms. He went out the first night that he was there, and came back after midnight"
"a reference from Conan Doyle's short story ""The Noble Bachelor"" and also on his non-Holmes story ""The Man With the Watches"". A series of inexplicable and bizarre incidents on a non-stop express train brings a railway baron to Baker Street and takes Holmes and Watson to Rugby. Additional cast First transmitted on 16 January 2009, this story is based on a reference from Conan Doyle's short story ""The Priory School"": ""'I am retained in this case of the Ferrers Documents.'"" What could possibly link a slum landlord, a vanishing prostitute, and a break-in at 221B Baker Street? In a case"
"221B Baker Street (board game) 221B Baker Street: The Master Detective Game is a board game featuring Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and developed by Jay Moriarty (dba Antler Productions) in 1975 and sold by the John N. Hansen Co. in the US since 1977. The players have to solve cases using the clues provided by visiting locations on the board such as 221B Baker Street, Scotland Yard, Apothecary and Pawn Broker. The original game has twenty cases, but there are eight expansion sets of 20 cases each for a total of 180 cases available for play, created"
"Lancelyn Green began his collection of Sherlockiana, and created his version of 221b Baker Street in an attic room at Poulton Hall, gleaning material for a few shillings at junk shops and from the family's own Victoriana. Later he began to assemble his literary collection, and would add any edition of Doyle's output, as well as posters, ephemera and novelty items with a Sherlock Holmes theme or Doyle association. By the date of his death Lancelyn Green had been collecting voraciously for more than 40 years and without doubt possessed the largest collection of Doyleiana that existed privately (and probably"
"and the two are able to solve the many incidents which occur at the school, at the request of teachers and pupils. The name ""Beeton School"" is taken from ""Beeton's Christmas Annual"", the magazine in which the character Sherlock Holmes first appeared, and Eton College. In the show, Sherlock Holmes is a strange but clever pupil who lives in room 221B of Baker House, one of the houses of Beeton School. He sleeps during class and has poor grades, especially in literature, philosophy and astronomy. He is thought by teachers to be a troublemaker, but has brilliant reasoning powers and"
"not good for her temper."" In ""Flying Too High"", Phryne Fisher decides to settle down in Melbourne, buying a house at 221B, The Esplanade, and moving in there with Dot Williams, her maid. She also engages Mr. and Mrs. Butler to act as her butler and housekeeper, respectively. Phryne confesses to her friend Bunji Ross that she bought the house because it was numbered 221 and that she added 'B' in an obvious reference to the home of Sherlock Holmes at 221B Baker Street. Through the course of the books, Phryne collects a personal maid, Dot; two adoptive daughters, Ruth"
"Street"" was a suite of rooms on the first floor of a lodging house above a flight of 17 steps. The main study overlooked Baker Street, and Holmes' bedroom was adjacent to this room at the rear of the house, with Dr. Watson's bedroom being on the floor above, overlooking a rear yard that had a plane tree in it. The street number 221B was assigned to the Sherlock Holmes Museum on 27 March 1990 (replacing the logical address 239 Baker Street) when the Leader of Westminster City Council, Lady Shirley Porter, unveiled a blue plaque signifying the address of"
"was noted for drawing large conclusions from the smallest observations. A brilliant London-based ""consulting detective"" residing at 221B Baker Street, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning, and forensic skills to solve difficult cases. Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories featuring Holmes, and all but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend, assistant, and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson. The period between World War I and World War II (the 1920s and 1930s) is generally referred to as the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. During"
"to be more open-minded in future cases. Hopkins refers several cases to Holmes, all within the South-East areas of England and London, including: In the 1946 film ""Dressed to Kill"", Hopkins was portrayed by Carl Harbord. In the first episode of Season Two of Elementary, a ""DCI Hopkins"" calls Holmes to London from New York. A female Inspector named Stella Hopkins appears in the episode of ""Sherlock"" entitled ""The Six Thatchers"". While uncertain, it can be presumed that the character drew inspiration from Inspector Hopkins. Mrs. Hudson is the landlady of the house 221B Baker Street, in which Holmes lives."
"in 221B of Baker House. Though being at loss how to deal with Holmes at first, he becomes too close to the strange roommate. He records the investigation of Holmes in a notebook that is called ""Watoson memo"" (Memo by John H. Watson) and writes articles based on it for the school's wall newspaper. Wataru Takagi voices him and narrates the show. Stephen King, the American novelist, wrote a short story called ""The Doctor's Case"" in the collection ""Nightmares & Dreamscapes"", where Watson actually solves the case instead of Holmes. Nigel Bruce reprised his film role of Watson on the"
"allowing the two to track Dracula to Watson's house in time to learn that he has abducted Mary Watson. In the Holmes-esque ""The Great Mouse Detective"", Toby is a Basset Hound and a permanent resident of 221b Baker Street. He is frequently used by Basil, the eponymous protagonist, as a means of transport and to pick up trails. In the NHK puppetry ""Sherlock Holmes"", Toby is kept by Sherman in a shed in Beeton School and assists Holmes in his investigation. In the series, Sherman is a female pupil who loves animals and communicates with them, unlike Mr Sherman in"
"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,"
"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"
"names differ from the original short story; the story's Roylott becomes Rylott, Julia Stoner becomes Violent Stoner. Some characters appeared in the play and film that weren't in the original story such as Mrs. Staunton the housekeeper, Rodgers the butler, and the Indian servant Ali. The film also altered the famous address of 221B Baker Street to 107 Baker Street and makes it a state-of-the-art office complete with secretaries and stenographers. Vincent Starrett found Massey's performance lacking saying ""Mr. Massey as Sherlock Holmes, in ""The Speckled Band"", most famous perhaps of all the Holmes adventures, was a considerable disappointment."" Starrett"
"hall on his hands and feet. When he spoke to Professor Presbury, his master swore at him and scuttled off to the stairway. Edith Presbury, who arrives at 221B Baker Street halfway through her fiancé's interview with Holmes, says that she saw her father at her bedroom window one night at two o'clock in the morning. Her bedroom is on the second floor, and there is no long ladder in the garden. She is positive that she did not imagine this. Also, the professor's usually faithful Irish Wolfhound has taken to attacking him on occasion, and has had to be"
"The Adventure of the Retired Colourman ""The Adventure of the Retired Colourman"" (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"". Sherlock Holmes is hired by a retired art supply dealer from Lewisham, Josiah Amberley, to look into his wife’s disappearance. She has left with a neighbour, Dr. Ray Ernest, taking a sizeable quantity of cash and securities. Amberley wants the two tracked down. Holmes is too busy with another case at the moment; so he sends"
"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"
"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"
"are large four-centered, arch-headed carriageway doors. The hall has a strong literary connection thanks to a visit to the house by the writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes. In 1901 Arthur Conan Doyle had returned from South Africa, suffering from Typhoid fever. To aid his recuperation, the author decided to take a golfing holiday in North Norfolk, accompanied by the journalist Bertram Fletcher Robinson. The two friends stayed at the Royal Links Hotel in Cromer. During their stay, Doyle probably heard the Norfolk legend of 'Black Shuck', the Hell Hound of"
"left chest of jacket. Watson, however, wears the pale brown uniform of his former school in Australia. Room 221 B, Baker House, is a laboratory for Holmes as well as an office where he consults with the pupils and staff who ask him to solve their problems. Entering the room, a red sofa is seen in the centre, there are also three desks to the left. Holmes has test tubes, beakers, and a spirit lamp, all used for his experiments, on one of the desks. Bookshelves are located on the left. Despite the presence of book shelves, many books are"