Basil Rathbone had already played Holmes in reasonably faithful period adaptations of Doyle’s stories, such as The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), but this was the first of several pictures ...

The iconic detective Sherlock Holmes was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. First appearing in print in the 1887 story A Study in Scarlet, Holmes has since been reimagined, recreated, and reinvented ...

He was the mysterious and ruthless ‘Napoleon of crime’ in the Sherlock Holmes novels by Scots author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But now a leading Scottish scholar has claimed the true identity of ...

How would Arthur Conan Doyle’s new spiritualist beliefs change his famous detective Sherlock Holmes? After Sherlock’s return from the dead, Arthur Conan Doyle became an evangelist for ...

There are as many as 300 societies dedicated to Sherlock Holmes. Devotees of the detective call themselves Sherlockians or Holmesians. There is some division in their ranks as to how the terms ...

Was there ever a greater description of a fictional villain than the “Napoleon of crime”, as Sherlock Holmes brands his arch-rival Professor James Moriarty? “He is the organiser of half that ...

Basil Rathbone in 1939's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Credit: Alamy 9 Humphrey Bogart as private detective Phillip Marlowe in 1946's The Big Sleep, with Lauren Bacall Credit: Alamy ...

Brenny Campbell, left, and Oliver Wadsworth in “A Sherlock Carol, ” running at Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany through Dec. 22. Six of the seven cast members play between two and six ...

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