In the final collection of stories called The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is The Problem of Thor Bridge. At the start of Watson’s recounting of…
To him "whom I shall ever regard as the best and wisest man whom I have ever known."
In the final collection of stories called The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is The Problem of Thor Bridge. At the start of Watson’s recounting of…
Following the success of their book, Mrs Hudson’s Diaries: A View from the Landing at 221B: Behind the Apron with Sherlock Holmes’ Land Lady, the…
The publication of the 1921 Census in 2022 prompted me to published my reading of the 1901 Census in relation to Arthur Conan Doyle. The…
For some people, Jeremy Brett, will always be the Sherlock Holmes. He portrayed Holmes over 40 times in what the creator of the Granada Series, Michael…
Not very likely! However the then newly-published Playboy magazine had in its first issue of December 1953, an Introduction to Sherlock Holmes with the opening…
Early experiments From the earliest days, the BBC was experimenting with stereophonic sound. But in the late 1950s, these experiments became a full-scale programme of…
The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition that took place in the summer of 1951. In the planning for the Festival there was a…
Background Although the first broadcast of a Sherlock Holmes case was not until 1938 (Detectives In Fiction 1. Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of Silver…
Before we go any further and, despite the appearance from time to time of what their authors suggest are previously undiscovered cases that Holmes was…
This short note is to advertise a series of articles about Sherlock Holmes appearances on the radio and television stations of the British Broadcasting Corporation…