"Holmes, but it features many Conan Doyle's stories such as ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"", ""The Valley of Fear"", ""The Speckled Band"", ""The Silver Blaze"", ""The Musgrave Ritual"", ""The Gloria Scott"", and ""The Copper Beeches"". ""The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra"" is a comedy album created by The Firesign Theatre featuring Hemlock Stones and Flotsam. 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"
"the four-word form. The actual text in the novel nearly always uses ""the Sign of the Four"" (the five-word form) to describe the symbol in the story, although the four-word form is used twice by Jonathan Small in his narrative at the end of the story. As with the first story, ""A Study in Scarlet"", produced two years previously, ""The Sign of the Four"" was not particularly successful to start with. It was the short stories, published from 1891 onwards in ""Strand Magazine"", that made household names of Sherlock Holmes and his creator. There are at least fourteen film, TV"
"and inaccurate in others, due to the passage of time if nothing else. At the end of ""A Study in Scarlet"", Holmes demonstrates a knowledge of Latin. Despite Holmes's supposed ignorance of politics, in ""A Scandal in Bohemia"" he immediately recognises the true identity of ""Count von Kramm"". His speech is peppered with references to the Bible, Shakespeare, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and the detective quotes a letter from Gustave Flaubert to George Sand in the original French. At the end of ""A Case of Identity"", Holmes quotes Hafez. In ""The Hound of the Baskervilles,"" the detective recognises works"
"as tie-in editions, with cover art featuring Cumberbatch and Freeman. ""A Study in Scarlet"" and ""The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"" were released in Autumn 2011, with introductions by Moffat and Gatiss respectively. ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"", ""The Sign of Four"" and ""The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"" were released in March 2012, with introductions by Cumberbatch, Freeman and Thompson respectively. Two more books, ""The Return of Sherlock Holmes"" and ""His Last Bow"", were released in December 2013, ahead of the premiere of the third series. They featured introductions by Gatiss and Moffat respectively. According to ""Radio Times"", the popularity of"
"and play adaptations insure this book: The Sign of the Four was also adapted for radio by Bert Coules in 1989 as part of BBC Radio 4's complete audio Sherlock Holmes, with Clive Merrison as Holmes, Michael Williams as Watson, and featuring Brian Blessed as Jonathan Small. The Sign of the Four The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1888. ""The Sign of the Four"""
"The Sign of the Four The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1888. ""The Sign of the Four"" has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts (""the Four"" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had"
"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"
"Doyle pursued an education in the medical field,where he began writing short stories. Conan Doyle, who is best known for his novels detailing the life of Victorian detective Sherlock Holmes, also has written numerous short stories, nonfiction works, historical novels, short stories, poetry and one operetta. Conan Doyle published The Sign of Four in 1890, which established Sherlock Holmes as a prominent character and did wonders in putting Conan Doyle on the map literature map in the United Kingdom and United States. However, Conan Doyle is said to have balanced writing historical novels with novels featuring Sherlock Holmes in the"
"be in ""The Sign of the Four"". The film references ""A Study in Scarlet"", ""The Adventure of Black Peter"", ""The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual"" and ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"". Fox would go on to play the character of Alistair Ross in another Sherlock Holmes pastiche, ""The Crucifer of Blood"". According to author Kingsley Amis, ""the reviews were excellent."" Alan Barnes calls the film ""part-deconstruction, part-parody of Doyle"" that ""ends up resembling a long drawn-out shaggy dog story."" Doctor Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery Doctor Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery is a 1974 British made-for-television mystery"
"of the series. Also in 2005, Elstree Hill Entertainment released all 39 episodes as ""The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"" on ten discs. In 2010, Mill Creek released ""Sherlock Holmes: Greatest Mysteries"", a five-disc DVD set featuring all 39 episodes plus eight unrelated Holmes films: "" The Sign of Four"" (1932), ""A Study in Scarlet"" (1933), ""The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes"" (1935), ""Silver Blaze"", also known as ""Murder at the Baskervilles"" (1937), ""Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon"" (1943), ""The Woman in Green"" (1945), ""Terror by Night"" (1946), and ""Dressed to Kill"" (1946). On March 9, 2010, Allegro/Pop Flix released ""Classic"
"The name of the central character, William of Baskerville, alludes both to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes (compare ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"" – also, Adso's description of William in the beginning of the book resembles, almost word for word, Dr. Watson's description of Sherlock Holmes when he first makes his acquaintance in ""A Study in Scarlet"") and to William of Ockham (see the next section). The name of the narrator, his apprentice Adso of Melk is among other things a pun on Simplicio from Galileo Galilei's ""Dialogue""; Adso deriving from ""ad Simplicio"" (""to Simplicio""). Adso's putative place of origin,"
"Watson owes his surname, but not any other obvious characteristic, to a Portsmouth medical colleague of Doyle's, Dr James Watson. A sequel to ""A Study in Scarlet"" was commissioned, and ""The Sign of the Four"" appeared in ""Lippincott's Magazine"" in February 1890, under agreement with the Ward Lock company. Doyle felt grievously exploited by Ward Lock as an author new to the publishing world and he left them. Short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes were published in the ""Strand Magazine"". Doyle wrote the first five Holmes short stories from his office at 2 Upper Wimpole Street (then known as Devonshire Place),"
"of the Speckled Band"" as his overall favourite. Arthur Conan Doyle began writing while studying medicine at university in the late 1870s, and had his first short story, ""The Mystery of Sasassa Valley"", published in September 1879. After eight years, ""A Study in Scarlet"", Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story, was published by Ward Lock & Co. The novel was well received, but Doyle was paid little for it, and despite a sequel novel, ""The Sign of the Four"", which was published in Lipincott's Monthly Magazine, he shifted his focus to short stories. In early 1891, the first editor of ""The"
"P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. The new short story is titled ""A Study in Emerald"" (2004) and is modelled with a parallel structure. A Study in Scarlet A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation"
"2011. Arthur Conan Doyle's ""Sherlock: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"",with an introduction by Mark Gatiss, followed on 27 October 2011. Three books ""Sherlock: Sign of Four, Sherlock: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"" and ""Sherlock: The Hound of the Baskervilles"" with introductions by Martin Freeman, Steve Thompson and Benedict Cumberbatch were released on 29 March 2012. In autumn 2012, BBC Books has published ""Sherlock: The Casebook"" as a hardback gift guide, revisiting all the mysteries solved throughout the TV series. BBC Books BBC Books (also formerly known as BBC Publishing) is an imprint majority owned and managed by Penguin Random House"
"Hound of the Baskervilles"" were ultimately filmed as Granada Television's ""Sherlock Holmes"" series premiered in 1984. In an interview with ""Scarlet Street"", Ian Richardson explained: ""The Sign of Four"" was shot simultaneously with ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"" but the schedule precluded having David Healy portray Watson in both films so Donald Churchill was enlisted to play the role in ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"". Two previous Watsons appear in the film: Terence Rigby who played Watson to Tom Baker's Holmes in 1982s ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"" and Thorley Walters who played Watson three times previously; with Christopher Lee"
"A Study in Scarlet A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his ""study in scarlet"": ""There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is"
"published in 2000 a novel with the title ""Sherlock Holmes e il misterioso caso di Ippolito Nievo"" (""Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Case of Ippolito Nievo"") set in London, Turin and Naples. The collection ""Shadows Over Baker Street"" (2003) contains 14 stories by 20 authors pitting Holmes against the forces of the Cthulhu Mythos. Among them is Neil Gaiman's ""A Study in Emerald"", which won the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. The title is a play on ""A Study in Scarlet"". The narrator, never named (but whose initials in the end point him to be the criminal henchman"
"Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking is a British television film originally broadcast on BBC One in the UK on 26 December 2004. Produced by Tiger Aspect Productions, it was written by Allan Cubitt and was a sequel to the same company's adaptation of ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"", made for the BBC two years previously. Although ""Silk Stocking"" retained the same Dr. Watson, Ian Hart, this time the character of Sherlock Holmes was played by Rupert Everett. In November 1903, young women are being killed in London,"
"""The Sign of the Four"". Though being a pupil of Baker House, she doesn't live in the house but in the shed with animals. A dog also appears in the Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films, but the similarity stops at it being a dog and living with Sherlock. Its name is Gladstone, it's clearly an English bulldog and technically belongs to Watson. Sherlock doesn't use it as a hound, but as a subject for his experiments, especially those involving narcotics of some kind. Hence the running gag in the films ""He's killed the dog again!"" In these respects it bears"
"Four"" in which he was played by Ian Hunter. Athole Stewart played Watson in the 1931 film ""The Speckled Band"" Reginald Owen played Watson in the 1932 film ""Sherlock Holmes"" Warburton Gamble played Watson in the 1933 film ""A Study in Scarlet"" The series of Sherlock Holmes films with Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson portrayed the doctor as a lovable but incompetent assistant. Some later treatments have presented a more competent Watson. Watson was played by actor André Morell in the 1959 film version of ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"", wherein Morell preferred that his version"
"The Hound of the Baskervilles The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in ""The Strand Magazine"" from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in ""The Final Problem"", and the success"
"The episode is loosely based on ""A Study in Scarlet"" and contains allusions to other works by Arthur Conan Doyle. Moffat said of ""A Study in Pink"" and ""A Study in Scarlet"": ""there are many elements of the story, and the broad shape of it, but we mess around with it a lot"". Tom Sutcliffe of ""The Independent"" points out, ""Fans will recognise at once that the close-reading Sherlock applies to John's mobile phone is drawn from an almost identical analysis of a pocket watch [taken from ""The Sign of the Four""]. More slyly oblique is the conversion of the"
"Study in Scarlet"", ""The Adventure of Silver Blaze"", ""The Adventure of the Priory School"", ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"", ""The Boscombe Valley Mystery""); using tobacco ashes and cigarette butts to identify criminals (""The Adventure of the Resident Patient"", ""The Hound of the Baskervilles""); handwriting analysis and graphology (""The Adventure of the Reigate Squire"", ""The Man with the Twisted Lip""); comparing typewritten letters to expose a fraud (""A Case of Identity""); using gunpowder residue to expose two murderers (""The Adventure of the Reigate Squire""); comparing bullets from two crime scenes (""The Adventure of the Empty House""); analyzing small pieces of human"
"as Dr Watson, in ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"" (2000), ""The Royal Scandal"" (2001), ""The Sign of Four"" (2001) and ""The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire"" (2002). 2002 saw a new version of ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"" featuring Richard Roxburgh. Ian Hart played Dr. Watson then and also in the 2004 BBC airing of ""Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking"", alternatively billed as ""The Return of Sherlock Holmes"". An original screenplay ""based on the character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"", this film takes place in 1902, with Dr. Watson ""saving a dear friend from narcotics"
"The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983 film) The Hound of the Baskervilles (a.k.a. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles) is a 1983 British made-for-television mystery film directed by Douglas Hickox, starring Ian Richardson as Sherlock Holmes and Donald Churchill as Dr. John H. Watson. It is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"". In 1982, American producer Sy Weintraub partnered with English producer Otto Plaschkes to make six television films of Sherlock Holmes stories. Charles Edward Pogue was enlisted to pen the screenplays but only ""The Sign of the Four"" and ""The Hound of"
"as Holmes in ""Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace"", with Douglas Wilmer as Holmes in ""The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother"" and with Christopher Plummer as Holmes in ""Silver Blaze"". The Sign of Four (1983 film) The Sign of Four (a.k.a. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four) is a 1983 British made-for-television mystery film directed by Desmond Davis and starring Ian Richardson and David Healy. The film is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel of the same name, the second novel to feature Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. In 1982, American producer Sy Weintraub partnered with"
"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"
"of film and television series have borne the title ""The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"", but some of these are either original stories, combinations of a number of Doyle's stories, or in one case, an adaptation of ""The Sign of the Four"". Irene Adler, who is in the first short story, ""A Scandal in Bohemia"", is prominent in many modern adaptations, despite only appearing in one story. Often in modern adaptations, she is portrayed as a love interest for Holmes, as in Robert Doherty's ""Elementary"" and the BBC's ""Sherlock"", even though in the story itself, the narration claims: ""It was not"
"Best Short Story, and the 2005 Locus Award for Best Novelette. It was nominated for the 2006 Seiun Award for Translated Short Form. A Study in Emerald ""A Study in Emerald"" is a short story written by British fantasy and graphic novel author Neil Gaiman. The story is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche transferred to the Cthulhu Mythos universe of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. It won the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. The title is a reference to the Sherlock Holmes novel ""A Study in Scarlet"". ""A Study in Emerald"" first appeared in the anthology ""Shadows Over Baker"
"""A Study in Scarlet"", ""The Sign of Four"", ""The Boscombe Valley Mystery"", ""The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter"", and ""The Adventure of the Naval Treaty"". It includes the very first mention of the phrase ""Elementary, my dear Watson"". While Conan Doyle wrote the original version, it is unclear how much of his material survived in the play as performed, which was written by Gillette. Conan Doyle and Gillette later revised the play together; it has since been revised by others twice. The Speckled Band (or The Stonor Case) (1902) Around 1902, Doyle wrote and produced a play based on his"
"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"
"The Sign of Four (2001 film) The Sign of Four (2001) is a Canadian television film directed by Rodney Gibbons and starring Matt Frewer and Kenneth Welsh. The movie is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's second Sherlock Holmes story. The second of four Holmes adaptations starring Frewer as Holmes, was preceded by ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"" in 2000, and then followed by ""The Royal Scandal"" (a blend of ""A Scandal in Bohemia"" and ""The Bruce-Partington Plans"") also in 2001, and ""The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire"" (an original story) in 2002. Frewer's portrayal of Holmes was largely criticized. Unlike"