Arthur Conan Doyle first created the character of Sherlock Holmes in 1887. Today the detective is the subject of the mental_floss Lunchtime Quiz. Can you match eight Sherlock Holmes story titles to their plot lines? I couldn't. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19459
Arthur Conan Doyle first created the character of Sherlock Holmes in 1887. Today the detective is the subject of the mental_floss Lunchtime Quiz. Can you match eight Sherlock Holmes story titles to their plot lines? I couldn't. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19459
And I haven't read or watch Holmes since I was ten! I had such a crush on Jeremy Brett. Ummm, yeah I was a strange little girl.
Yes, Jeremy Brett did a fine Holmes. That was a nice series ... decent production values all around and ((usually) reasonably close to the stories.
It would have been great if Granada had produced adaptations of the entire "canon", but alas, Brett had to screw things up by dying. Bummer.
Or how about any of the stories in the last series of stories, "The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes". The Casebook (1927) didn't come into the public domain (in teh US anyhow) until a couple of years ago, so the stories tend to be lesser known. They are also a little wackier [SPOILER ALERT!] including a story about a guy turning into a monkey from taking a drug derived from monkeys and another apart (seemingly anyhow) a vampire. Happy reading!