I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere

New Series on Professor Moriarty Is in the Works

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“as famous among crooks... as he is unknown to the public” [VALL]</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2aH8__zeP28XWdSmtaYa4W9ewTYSZFlL3tnS8W9g2FTxmHu6yPGHIWONErLsrWU8jPHb2g0exxHOH6jUv_OkOCbkSikjhzeQlfkshMu3lUdF3uiwuY53XJz9dPyjwc3AfWSZ7xJ568_CBFVuJwIxhwMlRWbuFj2rsvo7M8SLSNM1Fq1SqBKDRJW3qjhT7/s712/FINA%20-%20Moriarty%20-%20cropped.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="712" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2aH8__zeP28XWdSmtaYa4W9ewTYSZFlL3tnS8W9g2FTxmHu6yPGHIWONErLsrWU8jPHb2g0exxHOH6jUv_OkOCbkSikjhzeQlfkshMu3lUdF3uiwuY53XJz9dPyjwc3AfWSZ7xJ568_CBFVuJwIxhwMlRWbuFj2rsvo7M8SLSNM1Fq1SqBKDRJW3qjhT7/w640-h374/FINA%20-%20Moriarty%20-%20cropped.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>By all estimations, Sherlock Holmes is the most-portrayed literary character ever. Appearing in more than 250 films with his trusted friend and colleague Dr. Watson (who himself has had his own series), we frequently see Holmes face off against his archnemesis, Professor Moriarty.</p><p>But until now, the professor has never gotten his own series. As Holmes himself exclaimed in "The Final Problem":</p><blockquote><p>“Aye, there’s the genius and the wonder of the thing!”</p></blockquote><p>That wonder is coming to an end.</p><p>Fremantle and Archery Pictures have announced <em>Moriarty</em> (working title), a new original crime drama series built around the man Sherlock Holmes called "the Napoleon of crime" — Professor James Moriarty. The announcement, made on May 28, positions the project as "a modern reinvention of the crime procedural, based on the most famous villain in all of detective fiction."</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">The series will be written by Chris Cornwell (<em>A Discovery of Witches</em>, <em>Strike Back</em>) and Oliver Lansley (<em>Where's Wanda?</em>, <em>Flack</em>). Archery Pictures and Fremantle will co-produce, with Fremantle handling global sales. No network or streaming platform is attached as of yet.</p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><br /></p>
<h2 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">The Premise</h2>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">"Sometime when you have a year or two to spare I commend to you the study of Professor Moriarty." [FINA]</h4><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">The show's concept has a pleasing irony to it. In the canonical stories, Holmes famously deduces Moriarty as the unseen organizing intelligence behind London's criminal world — he tells Watson:</p><blockquote><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">“He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city... He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them.”</p></blockquote>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">This new series updates the double life of professor / master criminal and moves it out of London. The official synopsis reads:</p>
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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">James Moriarty is a Professor of Criminal Psychology at Durham University but leads a secret double life as the mastermind behind every crime of sophistication in the North of England. When a rival criminal begins an assault on his underground empire, Moriarty will have only one choice: to join the police as a consultant, using the law as a weapon to dismantle his foe while keeping his true identity hidden from the police. Paired with Detective Imogen Burrows, a stoic Yorkshire detective, they'll form a fearsome team, but Moriarty will soon realise that the real threat isn't the rival criminal faction he's dismantling, but Imogen's increasingly perceptive suspicions…</p>
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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">The update from mathematics to criminal psychology is a neat one. Doyle's Moriarty holds a mathematical chair at “one of our smaller universities" before dark rumors force his resignation, and his academic cover as a retired army coach gives Holmes the occasion for that famous put-down: “ex-Professor Moriarty...the retiring mathematical coach.” </p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">The new version swaps the subject matter while keeping a similar structure: the professor who should be above suspicion, the criminal genius hidden in plain academic sight.</p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><br /></p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">The procedural concept — because what would a modern Sherlockian series be without being reimagined as a standard police procedural? — is Moriarty embedded in a police consultancy against his will, with a sharp-eyed detective partner threatening to unravel everything. It also echoes the dynamic Holmes himself describes in <em>The Valley of Fear</em>, where he compares Moriarty to Jonathan Wild, the eighteenth-century criminal mastermind who controlled London's underworld while maintaining a veneer of respectability: </p><blockquote><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">“The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.”</p></blockquote><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><br /></p>
<h2 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">The Production Team</h2>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Archery Pictures was founded in 2014 by producer Kris Thykier, whose credits include <em>Operation Mincemeat</em>, Netflix's <em>Fate: The Winx Saga</em>, and the Bradley Cooper comedy <em>Is This Thing On?</em> Thykier expressed enthusiasm for the project:</p>
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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">“We are thrilled to be working with Fremantle to bring to life the original and character driven spin off from the Sherlock Holmes universe that Chris Cornwell has created. <em>Moriarty</em> will show audiences what it takes to be a criminal genius, combining genre thrills with a playful, dark, and thrilling dive into the psychology of villainy.”</p></blockquote>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Rebecca Dundon, SVP Scripted Content at Fremantle, added:</p>
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“We've been looking for a project to work with Archery on for a while and when Kris brought this to us, we instantly saw huge potential for a commercial, returning franchise that brings to life one of the more allusive characters in the Sherlock world: Moriarty. It's exciting to collaborate with Kris and the team at Archery to bring a premium, propulsive, contemporary drama to screen that will not only be clever and hooky, but also give us a fresh spin on the procedural crime format with an unconventionally brilliant protagonist at the heart who will constantly surprise and frustrate viewers in a highly entertaining manner!”</blockquote>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Fremantle's interest in a “commercial, returning franchise” signals ambition beyond a limited series. The partnership with Archery is one of several creative collaborations Fremantle has forged, alongside deals with the likes of Kristen Stewart's Nevermind Pictures, Emma Stone and Dave McCary's Fruit Tree, and Rachel Weisz and Polly Stokes' Astral Projection.</p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><br /></p>
<h2 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">Casting and the Shadows of Recent Moriartys</h2>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">No casting has been announced, but the role has inevitably invited comparisons to previous screen incarnations. Andrew Scott's portrayal in the BBC's <em>Sherlock</em> — manic, mercurial, disturbingly likeable — remains the most culturally vivid recent version. Others to have taken on the role include Ralph Fiennes, Jared Harris, Eric Porter, and, in Prime Video's current <em>Young Sherlock</em>, Dónal Finn.</p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">(See entries from <i><a href="https://deadline.com/2026/05/moriarty-series-sherlock-holmes-nemesis-in-works-fremantle-1236928868/" target="_blank">Deadline</a></i> and <a href="https://www.avclub.com/moriarty-series-in-development-sherlock-holmes" target="_blank">AV Club</a>, if you dare.)</p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><br /></p>
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Moriartys, left to right top row: Eric Porter in the Granada series, Jared Harris in <i>Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows</i>, Andrew Scott in <i>Sherlock </i>on BBC; bottom row: Natalie Dormer as Jamie Moriarty in <i>Elementary</i>, Randall Park in <i>Watson</i>, and Donal Finn in <i>Young Sherlock</i>.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br />
<h2 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">A Crowded Field</h2>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">The announcement lands in a moment of notable Sherlockian abundance on television. <em>Young Sherlock</em> on Prime Video recently earned a second-season renewal. The CW's <em>Sherlock and Daughter</em> is expected back for a second season. CBS's <em>Watson</em>, which put Morris Chestnut in the doctor's chair after Holmes's death, was cancelled earlier this year. This is, of course, after 154 episodes of Elementary from 2012–2019.</p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><br /></p><hr /><h3 style="text-align: center;">Related: </h3><h4 style="text-align: center;">"<a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2012/12/six-cases-which-i-have-added-to-my.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Sherlockian Analyzes Some of the Early Episodes of <i>Elementary</i></a>"</h4><hr />
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><br /></p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">As AV Club notes, all of those shows had their own Moriartys — but this will be the first time in the modern television era that the Professor himself gets top billing.</p>
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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">The Moriarty of the stories appears surprisingly sparingly in the original 60 stories. His most significant appearances are in "The Final Problem", where Holmes describes him at length to Watson and they face each other at Reichenbach; <em>The Valley of Fear</em>, a prequel in which Holmes explains Moriarty's criminal network to Inspector MacDonald; and the flashbacks in "The Empty House" and two others where he is discussed in retrospect. (Do you know which stories?)</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">The relative scarcity of canonical Moriarty — compared to his enormous cultural footprint — has always left room for imaginative expansion. A man of good birth and excellent education, compelled by a "criminal strain" in his blood that his extraordinary intelligence only amplifies, who builds the most sophisticated criminal organization in Europe while maintaining an aura of complete respectability: Doyle sketched him in broad, brilliant strokes and left the canvas largely blank.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Someone has finally taken him up on it.</p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">We at IHOSE Media have naturally taken up the topic over the years. Here are some worthy episodes and articles about Professor Moriarty worth exploring</h3><h4 style="text-align: left;">Articles:</h4><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2008/07/can-tell-moriarty-when-i-see-one-vall_6.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Moriarty</i>, John Gardiner's Last Book, Is Available</a></li><li><a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2022/07/moriarty-devils-game-now-available-on.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Moriarty: The Devil's Game</i> Is Now Available on Audible</a></li><li><a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/01/horowitzs-moriarty-is-ingenious-thriller.html?m=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Horowitz's <i>Moriarty</i> Is an Ingenious Thriller</a></li></ul><p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Episodes:</h4><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2022/07/episode-245-moriarty-devils-game.html#.YuX20HbMLb0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 245: Moriarty's Game</a> — an interview with show creator and writer Charles Kindinger</li><li><a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2023/05/episode-265-ken-ludwigs-moriarty.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 265: Ken Ludwig's <i>Moriarty</i></a> — an interview with the playwright and Ashely Polasek, executive director of the Ken Ludwig Company, on his latest play</li><li><a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/2020/01/episode-160-army-coaches.html" target="_blank"><i>Trifles </i>Episode 160 - Army Coaches</a></li><li><a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/2021/03/episode-219-moriartys-mathematics.html" target="_blank"><i>Trifles </i>Episode 219 - Moriarty's Mathematics</a></li><li><a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/2026/01/episode-472-professor-moriarty.html" target="_blank"><i>Trifles </i>Episode 472 - Professor Moriarty</a></li><li><a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/2026/03/episode-481-mr-moriarty.html" target="_blank"><i>Trifles</i> Episode 481 - Mr. Moriarty</a> </li></ul><p></p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><br /></p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><br /></p></div>

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Netflix Releases Enola Holmes 3 Trailer

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!” [COPP]</h4>
<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQmu2XOzsnes-q12EPzBNC4dMIYsSH1H41x1z_jk-gjwdS-5ZdL-aeUA_q7desqpeU9aiwqcQqmpdDcCEc6ppYWgEav7EvMxzdIDIwGY5GIW0c9MkiVLsEz5Gjqxgd6beo_b7HsZkbUeA5G2n-GDE5bylbq6J5m82jwI0pTZeELbMGJKyg9AOXXRHxSmp_/s1600/enola-holmes-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQmu2XOzsnes-q12EPzBNC4dMIYsSH1H41x1z_jk-gjwdS-5ZdL-aeUA_q7desqpeU9aiwqcQqmpdDcCEc6ppYWgEav7EvMxzdIDIwGY5GIW0c9MkiVLsEz5Gjqxgd6beo_b7HsZkbUeA5G2n-GDE5bylbq6J5m82jwI0pTZeELbMGJKyg9AOXXRHxSmp_/w640-h360/enola-holmes-3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />When a film's unexpected and runaway success leads to a franchise, it becomes difficult to disengage from the momentum. Arthur Conan Doyle found this out when <i>The Strand Magazine</i>, not to be robbed of more Sherlock Holmes stories following the success of <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>, bid $25,000 for six new Sherlock Holmes stories, or $30,000 for eight, or $45,000 for a set of thirteen and a promise of £100 per thousand words. (Source: <i><a href="https://affiliates.abebooks.com/c/2670720/77416/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3Dstashower%26cm_sp%3DSearchF-_-home-_-Results%26ref_%3Dsearch_f_hp%26sts%3Dt%26tn%3DConan%2520Doyle%2520Teller%2520of%2520Tales" target="_blank">Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle</a></i> by Daniel Stashower, 1999) <p></p><p>Buoyed by the success of the two previous entries in the Enola Holmes series, Netflix has announced that <em><strong>Enola Holmes 3</strong></em> arrives on <strong>July 1, 2026</strong>, providing an enticing trailer. </p>
<p>The official summary sets the stage with characteristic economy: "Adventure chases detective Enola Holmes to Malta, where personal and professional dreams collide on a case more tangled and treacherous than any she has faced before." Sun-soaked Mediterranean intrigue, then — though the franchise's signature charm has always been less about the geography of its cases and more about the particular geography of its protagonist's interior life.</p><p><br /></p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><strong>The Facts</strong></h2>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">“the essential facts of the case” [SILV]</h4><p>Millie Bobby Brown returns as Enola alongside Henry Cavill as Sherlock Holmes, Sam Claflin as Mycroft, and Helena Bonham Carter as their mother Eudoria. Himesh Patel, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, and Louis Partridge complete the principal cast. Partridge's Lord Tewkesbury figures rather prominently in the new chapter: wedding bells are ringing for Enola and Tewkesbury, as Netflix's first-look images confirm the engagement has progressed toward the altar.</p>
<p>The film is loosely based on Nancy Springer's young adult book series <em>The Enola Holmes Mysteries</em>. Philip Barantini takes the directing reins from Harry Bradbeer, who helmed the first two films. Jack Thorne returns to write the screenplay. The film runs 105 minutes and was produced by Legendary Pictures and PCMA Productions.</p>
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<p>Those expecting more of the breezy, fourth-wall-breaking energy of the first two films should prepare for a shift in tone. Barantini has compared the sequel to <em>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban</em> — that telling moment when a beloved franchise acknowledges that its audience has grown up and that the story must grow with them.</p>
<p>Brown herself described Enola as stepping into a version of herself that "feels much more defined but still evolving," noting that "she's built something for herself, which is amazing, but she's also questioning what she wants next." </p><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqu3ETIoPtSywcYvm05hYsQsTGP0vlwcAa8-fSDLNKlzi3JkYpgrC9djDDpw_vnYnLZoK6nXrnFf9UpORPG9RysbVrTyt2TuUSBAfYaeOXtyDNcO4Y1s2ArQRZ8kpGZCaAG__uNOkrG4dE_Tn9EwYC-Bi6nYabQotwJSLTAu5oABAg52n3qkQ0m6bjmAdd/s1200/enola-holmes-3-fire.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqu3ETIoPtSywcYvm05hYsQsTGP0vlwcAa8-fSDLNKlzi3JkYpgrC9djDDpw_vnYnLZoK6nXrnFf9UpORPG9RysbVrTyt2TuUSBAfYaeOXtyDNcO4Y1s2ArQRZ8kpGZCaAG__uNOkrG4dE_Tn9EwYC-Bi6nYabQotwJSLTAu5oABAg52n3qkQ0m6bjmAdd/w640-h426/enola-holmes-3-fire.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>
<p>The <em>Enola Holmes</em> franchise has, perhaps more than it is given credit for, done something quietly remarkable: it has taken one of literature's most celebrated figures of pure logic and reason and asked what it might mean if that same gift of observation were housed in someone for whom Victorian society had arranged a rather different set of expectations. Enola doesn't just solve cases. She insists, persistently and with considerable style, on embracing her unique talents and being seen. She <i>is</i> a Holmes, after all.</p>
<p>In "The Greek Interpreter," Holmes told Watson: </p><blockquote><p>"I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers."</p></blockquote><p>Enola Holmes, in three films now, has taken that dictum to heart — and then, characteristically, gone her own way with it.</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Watch the trailer:</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="347" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g1fq327snPU" width="606" youtube-src-id="g1fq327snPU"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p>
<p><em>Enola Holmes 3</em> premieres on Netflix, July 1, 2026.</p><p>Image credits: <i><a href="https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/enola-holmes-3-photos" target="_blank">John Wilson / Netflix</a></i></p><br /><br />

Netflix Releases Enola Holmes 3 Trailer

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Baker Street Elementary – Nonsensical

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“systematized common sense” [BLAN]<span> </span></h4><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3fDiq2g6nREr3I9dfKdpeevek69v4mCB_LWl9GLVFnYIKa7zFWnfcnQvE_AQOWCnspDIo3POnCDEOyUyJ2uadWa_k6ioy5KLcm36vdhFvtTdxGHhDcZe8-CKnT8sELcbc8nIUgrSvUeJKaSauhBaAcVS3IyBv0cJ-T9QBEuBa5PNXA3w4PlDf49BDodA/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20228.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3fDiq2g6nREr3I9dfKdpeevek69v4mCB_LWl9GLVFnYIKa7zFWnfcnQvE_AQOWCnspDIo3POnCDEOyUyJ2uadWa_k6ioy5KLcm36vdhFvtTdxGHhDcZe8-CKnT8sELcbc8nIUgrSvUeJKaSauhBaAcVS3IyBv0cJ-T9QBEuBa5PNXA3w4PlDf49BDodA/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20228.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div>In "The Blanched Soldier," we find a quote from Sherlock Holmes that makes it clear that his way of thinking — as impressive and strange as it is to the reader — is second nature to him:</div><div><blockquote>“By cunning questions and ejaculations of wonder he could elevate my simple art, <b>which is but systematized common sense</b>, into a prodigy.” </blockquote><div>Systematized common sense? Well, if one has taken the trouble to memorize data about crimes past and to observe what others don't, it might be systematized.</div><div><br /></div><div>More often than not, we see Scotland Yard inspectors calling their approach "common sense" when it is more like systematized ignorance.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>For example, in <i>The Valley of Fear</i>, Inspector MacDonald challenges Holmes's theory about an outside killer, declaring: </div><div><blockquote>“It's clean against common sense!” </blockquote></div><div>His argument was that no rational man would choose a noisy shotgun as the weapon for a murder he needed to commit quietly and escape cleanly.</div><div><br /></div><div>And in <i>The Sign of Four</i>, Inspector Athelney Jones (who famously called the detective "Mr. Sherlock Holmes the theorist") uses the phrase twice while trying to theorize about the crime at Pondicherry Lodge, first dismissing the steps on the window sill: </div><div><div></div><blockquote><div>“Well, well, if it was fastened the steps could have nothing to do with the matter. That’s <b>common sense</b>. Man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing. Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come upon me at times.—Just step outside, sergeant, and you, Mr. Sholto. Your friend can remain.—What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off with the treasure. How’s that?”</div><div>“On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside.”</div><div>“Hum! There’s a flaw there. Let us apply <b>common </b><b>sense</b> to the matter.”</div></blockquote><div></div></div><div>Oh, poor Athelney Jones...</div><div><br /></div><div>Let's see if they're teaching common sense at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyk8oP8QZUpbVc5Z1_O9sMAi5ZgJieVQBNkYQpuyRZNZQOpMzxFouzm8zQCQh97ws63AmLY9lqvzMrzHXA8pAqGuZB4vkAuVl5xPe74s07AolKkyZ6ELDPC63JW7nphtUnLKCCsFq19kO_kRYI54qNMEaKMMNfPrrWBqJixoY7gSjRllOA20URjm7W4No/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20228.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyk8oP8QZUpbVc5Z1_O9sMAi5ZgJieVQBNkYQpuyRZNZQOpMzxFouzm8zQCQh97ws63AmLY9lqvzMrzHXA8pAqGuZB4vkAuVl5xPe74s07AolKkyZ6ELDPC63JW7nphtUnLKCCsFq19kO_kRYI54qNMEaKMMNfPrrWBqJixoY7gSjRllOA20URjm7W4No/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20228.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Baker Street Elementary – Nonsensical

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Episode 335: Brettcon 2 – The Return

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“the affair which you have commemorated” [MUSG] </h4><h4 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyBmKJ8IZQ9plKhpfTwdd-MmpbgEBuCagk2w3PwERYvAuDcF7ZxXbcifBW6EnfFKEiabU3dLDv1mZ_56AQWncFRVj4NKQo-5DX2vx29bD6agu5tUTl1fcB4cst6NuvQbL-Ds6vAdZF0vEFpI892LphfPCsuO_3xDl_wJ0CumNdpQGusNXhMB8tJOdoroJC/s2250/ihearofsherlock335%20header.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2250" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyBmKJ8IZQ9plKhpfTwdd-MmpbgEBuCagk2w3PwERYvAuDcF7ZxXbcifBW6EnfFKEiabU3dLDv1mZ_56AQWncFRVj4NKQo-5DX2vx29bD6agu5tUTl1fcB4cst6NuvQbL-Ds6vAdZF0vEFpI892LphfPCsuO_3xDl_wJ0CumNdpQGusNXhMB8tJOdoroJC/w640-h426/ihearofsherlock335%20header.jpg" width="640" /></a></h4><div><div>We welcome back Gus and Luke Holwerda, hosts of <i><a href="http://sherlockpodcast.com/" target="_blank">The Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Podcast</a></i>, along with their producer, David Youell, to discuss <b>Brettcon 2: The Return</b>. Scheduled for September 19, 2026, at the Dancehouse Theatre in Manchester, this second conference in the series continues to celebrate the 40th anniversary of legendary Granada Television series and the incomparable Jeremy Brett. </div><div><br /></div><div>Following the success of their first conference in 2025, they reflect on the extraordinary sense of community the event inspired, bringing together fans from around the world with actors and crew members who shared memories of Jeremy Brett — a brilliant actor, and an admired and generous human being whose presence still resonates.</div><div><br /></div><div>We discuss Brettcon 2’s star-studded lineup, which includes actor Michael Siberry, BAFTA-winning costume designer Esther Dean, actor and stuntman Kiran Shah, and an exclusive for IHOSE of a very special pair of guests. From screenings of classic episodes to displays of original, unseen costumes, it’s a salute to the artistry and community that defined the Granada era. </div><div><br /></div><div>Beyond the main event, Gus, Luke and David also discuss the weekend extravaganza that takes fans into the heart of the show's production history, including a Friday meal at the former Granada Studios back lot, the original site of Baker Street. And they highlight the charitable mission at the heart of Brettcon, with all proceeds benefiting the mental health charity MindUK, in honor of Jeremy’s own journey.</div><div><br /></div><div>And you'll want to make sure you listen to additional bonus material as our conversation continued.</div><div><br /></div><div>Our “Learned Societies” segment kicks off with Sherlockian society activities coming up in the second half of July. Then, it’s a new edition of “Examining the Pictures,” with the film critic, journalist, and author Christian Monggaard, BSI, as he reviews a cult classic from the 1970s. Finally, the Canonical Couplet quiz will test your Sherlock Holmes knowledge, with a copy of something from the vaults for the winner. Send your answer to comment @ihearofsherlock.com by June 14, 2026 at 11:59 a.m. EDT. All listeners are eligible to play.</div></div><div><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;">As a reminder, our <a href="https://ihose.co/ihosepatron" target="_blank">supporters</a> can listen to the show ad-free and have access to occasional bonus material. Join us on the platform of your choice (<a href="https://patreon.com/ihearofsherlock" target="_blank">Patreon</a> | <a href="https://ihearofsherlock.substack.com" target="_blank">Substack</a>).</p><p style="text-align: center;">And if you need some show swag or gift ideas, or if you want to show off your good taste to other Sherlockians, check out our <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/merchandise" target="_blank">Merch Store</a>, with mugs, notepads and more.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Merriweather; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://traffic.libsyn.com/ihearofsherlock/ihearofsherlock335.mp3" style="color: #013fd3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Download</a> [Save As] | File size: 102 MB, 1:26:36</h3><p><iframe title="Embed Player" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/41480115/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/414851/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" height="192" width="100%" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" style="border-width: medium; 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Episode 335: Brettcon 2 – The Return

“the affair which you have commemorated” [MUSG] We welcome back Gus and Luke Holwerda, hosts of The Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Podcast , ...

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When Google Gave Sir Arthur Conan Doyle a Birthday Gift

<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><div class="image2-inset"><h3 style="text-align: center;">Today marks 20 years since its first appearance</h3><h4 style="text-align: center;"><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ufo-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90be187a-5860-47ba-a14d-a6be5d70a954_960x539.jpeg" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><img alt="File:ConanDoyle1.jpg" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/90be187a-5860-47ba-a14d-a6be5d70a954_960x539.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":539,"width":960,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"File:ConanDoyle1.jpg","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false,"align":null,"offset":false}" height="359" sizes="100vw" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ufo-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90be187a-5860-47ba-a14d-a6be5d70a954_960x539.jpeg" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ufo-!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90be187a-5860-47ba-a14d-a6be5d70a954_960x539.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ufo-!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90be187a-5860-47ba-a14d-a6be5d70a954_960x539.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ufo-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90be187a-5860-47ba-a14d-a6be5d70a954_960x539.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ufo-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90be187a-5860-47ba-a14d-a6be5d70a954_960x539.jpeg 1456w" title="File:ConanDoyle1.jpg" width="640" /></a></h4></div><div class="image2-inset"><div></div></div></figure></div><div class="image2-inset"><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>“a man of good birth and excellent education” [FINA] </strong></h4><div>On May 22, 1859, Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born. And it is still celebrated by Sherlockians and Doyleans around the world, who, at the very least, pause to honor the man who created Sherlock Holmes.</div></div><p><br />Hopping on that trend on May 22, 2006 — <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2006/05/fine-figure-of-man-tall-lithe-and-agile_22.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>20 years ago today</strong></a> — Google presented one of its famous “<a href="https://doodles.google/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Google Doodles</strong></a>” to honor his Conan Doyle and his famous creation. (Technically it was launched the evening before, but it was up all day on the 22nd). </p><p>This was before the Google Doodle became a near-daily thing.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XmrC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F056120a8-4735-4067-becb-169f94ab3cba_640x231.jpeg" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source sizes="100vw" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XmrC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F056120a8-4735-4067-becb-169f94ab3cba_640x231.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XmrC!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F056120a8-4735-4067-becb-169f94ab3cba_640x231.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XmrC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F056120a8-4735-4067-becb-169f94ab3cba_640x231.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XmrC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F056120a8-4735-4067-becb-169f94ab3cba_640x231.jpeg 1456w" type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/056120a8-4735-4067-becb-169f94ab3cba_640x231.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":231,"width":640,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false,"align":null,"offset":false}" height="231" sizes="100vw" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XmrC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F056120a8-4735-4067-becb-169f94ab3cba_640x231.jpeg" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XmrC!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F056120a8-4735-4067-becb-169f94ab3cba_640x231.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XmrC!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F056120a8-4735-4067-becb-169f94ab3cba_640x231.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XmrC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F056120a8-4735-4067-becb-169f94ab3cba_640x231.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XmrC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F056120a8-4735-4067-becb-169f94ab3cba_640x231.jpeg 1456w" title="" width="640" /></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><br />There are scores of reasons to honor Sir Arthur every day, since his name is still associated not only with the immortal Sherlock Holmes, but the likes of Brigadier Gerard, Professor Challenger, poetry, politics, speeches, divorce law reform, <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose149" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>the defense of the wrongly-accused</strong></a>, <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2006/09/you-have-eliminated-impossible-sign_10.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>his friendship with Harry Houdini</strong></a>, his <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose218" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>avid love of many sports</strong></a>, <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2007/11/episode-13-arthur-conan-doyle-life-in.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>spiritualism</strong></a>, and much more.</p><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><pre class="text">  </pre></div><p>Happy birthday, Sir Arthur! Thank you for the eternal gift of Sherlock Holmes.</p><p></p><br /><p></p>

When Google Gave Sir Arthur Conan Doyle a Birthday Gift

Today marks 20 years since its first appearance “a man of good birth and excellent education” [FINA] On May 22, 1859, Arthur Ignatius Conan...

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Baker Street Elementary – Prodigious Playing

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“I shall try over the Hoffman ‘Barcarole’ upon my violin” [MAZA]<span> </span></h4><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrWMq7kFwpC1NjVyFSskFK7MD2XW5jFNg7-vL2KlRirARbeh5Jf6yAZXnHQF4XJyOwVhFgvVKaiFdppoQifRaQJRwrN32mA42R9ZXQXbIMdB2SvaxL_9VbnZV5Y7xHiS0FW66o1S9Qal9aN30SkW_nJ6Jub5Lz-vzURhWOqW1M1hFygAAvMuIqWnUvFQI/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20227.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrWMq7kFwpC1NjVyFSskFK7MD2XW5jFNg7-vL2KlRirARbeh5Jf6yAZXnHQF4XJyOwVhFgvVKaiFdppoQifRaQJRwrN32mA42R9ZXQXbIMdB2SvaxL_9VbnZV5Y7xHiS0FW66o1S9Qal9aN30SkW_nJ6Jub5Lz-vzURhWOqW1M1hFygAAvMuIqWnUvFQI/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20227.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div>Sherlock Holmes's ability with the violin was introduced in the very first story Dr. Watson brought before the public. In <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>, as each man is listing his peculiarities to the other, Holmes offers this question to his would-be roommate:</div><div><blockquote><div>“Do you include violin-playing in your category of rows?” </div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>Watson tells us Holmes asked “anxiously”. But why anxiously?</div></div><div><br /></div><div>It could be that Holmes was a mere amateur and was self-conscious about his playing. Or that he practiced frequently, in order to improve his skill, and in doing so, he might not sound the best. To a perfectionist like Holmes, that may have been a vulnerability. His response indicates some sensitivity there:</div><div><div></div></div><blockquote><div><div>“It depends on the player,” I answered. “A well played violin is a treat for the gods—a badly-played one—”</div></div><div><div>“Oh, that’s all right,” he cried, with a merry laugh. “I think we may consider the thing as settled—that is, if the rooms are agreeable to you.”</div></div></blockquote><div>When Watson wrote up his famous list, he gave Holmes positive marks for his musical talents:</div><blockquote><div>10. Plays the violin well.</div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>It is our supposition that Holmes as a virtuoso and not at all an unskilled, practicing amateur. Later in the story, Watson observes Holmes leaning back in his chair, where </div><div><blockquote>“he would close his eyes and scrape carelessly at the fiddle which was thrown across his knee.”</blockquote></div><div>That, ladies and gentlemen, is not the behavior of a new violin student or someone who is anxiously attempting to master a craft. No, that is the action of someone extremely familiar with the instrument and quite confident in his own level of performance.</div><div><br /></div><div>Could it be because Holmes got his start at music lessons at Baker Street Elementary?</div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Related:</h3><div>Listen to <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles40" target="_blank"><i>Trifles</i> Episode 40</a>, where we discussed a true virtuoso whom Holmes admired: Sarasate.</div><div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="5075" data-dashlane-rid="111f8ce6f6c5ddff" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5806614/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/3a4e59/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: initial; border-style: none; 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“I shall try over the Hoffman ‘Barcarole’ upon my violin” [MAZA] Sherlock Holmes's ability with the violin was introduced in the very ...

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Episode 334: Remembering David Burke

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“I fear that it is at a cost which will give pain to my friends” [FINA] </h4><h4 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKNY05gKMVo-Z6g_jIX-OaGxwa-kjtwfTYoY9ncfol8hrWuQLq9iv8d2KqiP_PnWfgTlSIVIJcMU9qEdO0vE-zGhCPYeOS4qF_LGgvATmj29v46eh21V5H66nmzNr55JOWDFpzVH4NCbKtq8yzgrJ-7POUIF0z5pGn8l9ASvOT5tURYYBxZbvhiJiPeG-d/s1442/ihearofsherlock334-header.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1442" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKNY05gKMVo-Z6g_jIX-OaGxwa-kjtwfTYoY9ncfol8hrWuQLq9iv8d2KqiP_PnWfgTlSIVIJcMU9qEdO0vE-zGhCPYeOS4qF_LGgvATmj29v46eh21V5H66nmzNr55JOWDFpzVH4NCbKtq8yzgrJ-7POUIF0z5pGn8l9ASvOT5tURYYBxZbvhiJiPeG-d/w640-h480/ihearofsherlock334-header.png" width="640" /></a></h4><div><div>This special emergency episode of <i>I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</i> serves as a tribute to actor David Burke, the first performer to play Dr. Watson in the Granada television series, who passed away a few days ago at the age of 91.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Burt is away, but Scott is joined by Gus and Luke Holwerda, co-hosts and creators of <b><i>The Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Podcast</i></b>. Ironically, we had recorded a regular episode with Gus and Luke earlier this week, but upon the news of David's passing, we pre-empted that show.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Gus and Luke share their personal reminiscences about David, stemming from their visit to David's home, revealing how nervous he was at that meeting. We analyze Burke's unique portrayal, highlighting the many deeply human qualities he brought to the role in the 13 episodes in which he starred with Jeremy Brett, laying the groundwork for a well-rounded, three-dimensional Watson</div><div><br /></div><div>And we share and comment on a number of clips from those episodes. Listen to hear if a favorite scene of yours comes up and if you name the episodes from which they're drawn before we do.</div></div><div><br /></div><p>As a reminder, our <a href="https://ihose.co/ihosepatron" target="_blank">supporters</a> can listen to the show ad-free and have access to occasional bonus material. 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Episode 334: Remembering David Burke

“I fear that it is at a cost which will give pain to my friends” [FINA] This special emergency episode of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere se...

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David Burke, the First Watson of the Granada Era, Passes at 91

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask” [3GAR] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_NAAXhc5uEhctm7SQKwCJ-Qp_Vz5rSToma0b-UV1Psu0oglIOwNwk9cbXm8j4VrzI25k6SL9bhH0SZeFf6fEpjn1n8L_dbEpDa2sgKhFD70uJJ0BwWM-VRolzgvX8YAuIqsl_53gr254RJ9XOtNiadngXGeyuIT2TRMcH1IUDLgUzDcIFYxVRe-3u7PvE/s620/jeremy-brett-david-burke.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="620" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_NAAXhc5uEhctm7SQKwCJ-Qp_Vz5rSToma0b-UV1Psu0oglIOwNwk9cbXm8j4VrzI25k6SL9bhH0SZeFf6fEpjn1n8L_dbEpDa2sgKhFD70uJJ0BwWM-VRolzgvX8YAuIqsl_53gr254RJ9XOtNiadngXGeyuIT2TRMcH1IUDLgUzDcIFYxVRe-3u7PvE/w640-h480/jeremy-brett-david-burke.jpg" width="640"></a></div><br><div><br></div>There are actors who play Dr. Watson, and there are actors who <em>understand</em> him. David Burke — who originated the role of John H. Watson opposite Jeremy Brett in Granada Television’s <em>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</em> — was one of the rarest of the latter. We have learned that he passed away in recent days, as confirmed by his family.<div><br></div><div>In the 13 episodes he gave us between 1984 and 1985, he did not so much inhabit the good doctor as quietly rescue him from forty years of cinematic condescension. For a generation of viewers raised on Nigel Bruce’s harrumphing, hand-wringing Watson — lovable, certainly, but irredeemably the butt of the joke and <i>Boobus Britannicus</i> in the flesh — Burke’s arrival was nothing short of a corrective. <p>Here, at last, was the Watson Conan Doyle had actually written: an Army surgeon who had seen Maiwand, a man of action who carried his service revolver and knew how to use it, a physician of professional competence, and — perhaps most importantly — an intelligent, observant, fully grown human being whom Sherlock Holmes would actually have chosen as his friend.</p><p><br></p><span></span></div>

David Burke, the First Watson of the Granada Era, Passes at 91

“the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask” [3GAR] There are actors who play Dr. Watson, and there are actors who under...

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Remembering Michael Pennington

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“give my little impersonations your kindly praise” [MAZA] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2eJ439WQ6refZb8O8A_Ug_9vjTUPHWDpZ5mSFiZuYlxay1BIpBwbK6WRqxjJHvuANfzkGWuf6Rf7Cn4LFHG9b-rc738xKdp-GmqmSFu8_h210Fg_tjq0px26L7iKyFkpp3aRGcMbI2pLRoGxLiVC7KlEI1K9QiJ4DwZilsax0J1VQFmcITeXy37JqU79p/s982/Michael%20Pennington%20-%201987%20Return.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="982" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2eJ439WQ6refZb8O8A_Ug_9vjTUPHWDpZ5mSFiZuYlxay1BIpBwbK6WRqxjJHvuANfzkGWuf6Rf7Cn4LFHG9b-rc738xKdp-GmqmSFu8_h210Fg_tjq0px26L7iKyFkpp3aRGcMbI2pLRoGxLiVC7KlEI1K9QiJ4DwZilsax0J1VQFmcITeXy37JqU79p/w640-h478/Michael%20Pennington%20-%201987%20Return.png" width="640"></a></div><br><div>Even though Sherlock Holmes holds the record as the literary figure most portrayed on film, it is shocking when we lose an actor who has played the role. The death of Michael Pennington (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0672190/?ref_=mv_close" target="_blank">IMDb</a>) at the age of 82, announced this weekend, takes one such impersonator from us. </div><div><br></div><div>His <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2026/05/10/michael-pennington-english-shakespeare-company-old-vic/" target="_blank">obituary in <i>The Telegraph</i></a> notes he was “acclaimed for its intelligence and flawless diction”, which one would hope from the founder (with Michael Bogdanov) of the English Shakespeare Company, the author of ten books on his craft, and over a half-century of stage work that any actor would envy. </div><div><br></div><div>But Sherlockians recall Pennington for a more particular distinction. In the span of six years, he played both halves of the most legendary archrivalry in literature: Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty. Few actors have stood on both sides of the abyss at Reichenbach. Fewer still have done so with his pedigree.</div><div><br></div><h2>The 80s Sherlock Holmes Renaissance</h2><h4>“and in 1887” [TWIS]</h4><div>To understand how Pennington landed in Baker Street at all, you have to understand the strange weather of the 1980s. Sherlock Holmes had never quite gone away (he never does), but the decade brought an extraordinary convergence. The Holmes stories had passed into the public domain in Britain in 1980, fifty years after Conan Doyle’s death, and a pair of producers, Sy Weintraub and Otto Plaschkes, seized on the opportunity, signing <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2007/02/much-shocked-by-death-houn_9.html" target="_blank">Ian Richardson</a> for a planned six-film series. Only two were filmed before Granada’s rival production scared the rest off the field — <i style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://amzn.to/4ppUrus" rel="nofollow" style="color: #013fd3; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Sign of Four</a></i><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"> and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://amzn.to/48hJF3b" rel="nofollow" style="color: #484848; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">The Hound of the Baskervilles</a></i>, both in 1983 — but Richardson’s urbane, mischievous Holmes set a high bar for the decade.</div><div><br></div><div>That rival was, of course, the production at Granada Television in Manchester, where <b>Jeremy Brett</b> began in 1984 what would become the most exhaustive and, for many of us, the definitive screen treatment of the Canon. Brett’s Holmes was a force of nature — sharp, mercurial, and pitched at a key the role had never quite been pitched at before. By 1986, the Granada series was hitting its stride with its own <i>The Return of Sherlock Holmes</i> season, the very title resonating with the centenary that loomed.</div><div><br></div><div>For 1887 was the year Sherlock Holmes first appeared print, in <i>Beeton’s Christmas Annual</i>, in a story called <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>. The hundredth anniversary did not pass unnoticed: scion societies held celebrations, publishers commissioned new editions, the BBC and broadcasters worldwide commemorated, and producers on both sides of the Atlantic angled for a piece of the moment. It was into this fizzing centenary year that an American TV movie called <i>The Return of Sherlock Holmes</i> (with a sly nod toward both the centenary and the Granada series) arrived on CBS, on January 10, 1987.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><h2>A Holmes Out of Time</h2><h4>“The date being—?” [CREE]</h4><div>The premise was the stuff that gives more traditional Sherlockians hives. A Boston private investigator, Jane Watson (played by <b>Margaret Colin</b>), great-granddaughter of the good doctor, discovers in her ancestral estate a cryogenic capsule containing one Sherlock Holmes — placed there in suspended animation after an attempt on his life by a previously unsuspected brother of Professor Moriarty, who had infected him with bubonic plague. Thawed, cured, and dragged into the late twentieth century, Holmes is hauled off to America to help Jane with a case that draws (loosely) on <i>The Sign of Four</i>: a man named Small, a woman named Morstan, and a long line of grudges.</div><div><br></div><div>It is, frankly, a weak premise. It was also a backdoor pilot for a series that never came. The script is uneven, the science is silly, and the second-act tour of suburban America with Holmes marveling at copy machines is exactly what you fear it might be. </div><div><br></div><div>And yet Pennington plays Holmes straight: alert, courtly, baffled but never broken, allowing the comedy to come from the world’s strangeness rather than from any softening of the man. His Holmes is tall, ascetic, slightly melancholy, and uncannily watchful. He looks, in fact, the way Holmes is supposed to look. </div><div><br></div><div>Reviews at the time were mixed (the <i>New York Times</i> harrumphed about a “felonious assault on the memory of Arthur Conan Doyle’s great detective”), but the IMDb reviews speak for themselves: more than one of them notes regret that the proposed series was never picked up. The chemistry with Colin worked, and the picture has a small but real cult following.</div><div><br></div><div>For those who haven’t seen it, or who’d like to revisit:</div><div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="451" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gfCotr7KQts" width="542" youtube-src-id="gfCotr7KQts"></iframe></div><br><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div><br></div><h2>From Holmes to the Napoleon of Crime</h2><div><h4>“I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made” [SIGN]</h4></div><div>The TV movie wasn’t Pennington’s only contribution to the Sherlockian entertainment world, though. In November 1992, BBC Radio 4 broadcast its long-running, faithful, story-by-story dramatization of the Canon with <b>Clive Merrison</b> as Holmes and <b>Michael Williams</b> as Watson, an ensemble that would in time produce the first complete radio adaptation of all sixty stories in the Canon.</div><div><br></div><div>The story that month was “The Final Problem,” and for the role of <b>Professor James Moriarty</b>, the producers cast Michael Pennington. He returned to the part for “The Adventure of the Empty House,” broadcast in February 1993.</div><div><br></div><h3><span></span></h3>

Remembering Michael Pennington

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The Great Hiatus Reimagined: A New Sherlock Holmes Series Coming in 2027

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“Three years had certainly not smoothed the asperities of his temper” [EMPT]</h4><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4Bt3Jfx1Ppw-9idaSl1xyXfTUzzTIuRG_VbgEwJlhTPBuLDlo7o8zKwTko1J_6Dwn7sz3f-fbCWOMVp6iiIeUiYMLyajsmko1MMnYkTe6H15U3TC1No6dfT2bDOsMsh_LrUW4Rj3SxiV7DOatj5ByIHq7Aab1n5p5ZTEyWqYwwDT5r0r8n5ku9gR7vrpE" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1620" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4Bt3Jfx1Ppw-9idaSl1xyXfTUzzTIuRG_VbgEwJlhTPBuLDlo7o8zKwTko1J_6Dwn7sz3f-fbCWOMVp6iiIeUiYMLyajsmko1MMnYkTe6H15U3TC1No6dfT2bDOsMsh_LrUW4Rj3SxiV7DOatj5ByIHq7Aab1n5p5ZTEyWqYwwDT5r0r8n5ku9gR7vrpE=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rafe Spall and Deleila Piasko (Sky)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Of all the periods in the Canon that have tantalized Sherlockians, there are two that consistently are intriguing, the first of which is Sherlock Holmes's formative years. The now-classic film <i>Young Sherlock Holmes</i> and the more recent series <i>Young Sherlock</i> have taken on this period with gusto.</div><div><br /></div><div>The other period is the Great Hiatus — those mysterious years between Holmes's plunge over the Reichenbach Falls on May 4, 1891, and his startling reappearance in Watson's consulting room in the spring of 1894. Conan Doyle gave us only the briefest sketch of Holmes's wanderings to Tibet, Persia, Mecca, and Khartoum. The rest has been left to our imaginations — and has proven to be fertile ground for scholars, pasticheurs, and screenwriters alike.</div>
<p>The latest entry in this venerable tradition comes from a Swiss-German-Belgian co-production titled <em><strong>The Death of Sherlock Holmes</strong></em> (working title), which began filming this spring and is slated for a 2027 premiere.</p><p><br /></p>
<h2>A Cast and Crew of Note</h2>
<h4><span style="text-align: center;">“</span>extends over many nations<span style="text-align: center;">”</span> [SIGN]</h4>
<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1245863/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_Rafe%20Spall" target="_blank">Rafe Spall</a> (<em>Under Salt Marsh</em>, <em>Trying</em>) takes up the deerstalker — or whatever passes for one in his amnesiac state — alongside <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1760420/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_5_nm_1_in_0_q_Deleila%20Piasko" target="_blank">Deleila Piasko</a> (<em>The Exposure</em>, <em>Transatlantic</em>). </p><p>The series is the brainchild of <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3388080/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_0_nm_1_in_0_q_Claudia%20Bluemhuber" target="_blank">Claudia Bluemhuber</a> (<em>Fallen, Robin and the Hoods</em>), <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1825205/?ref_=fn_t_1" target="_blank">André Küttel</a> (<em>Needle Park Baby, </em><i>Die Beschatter</i>), and <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1301190/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_3_nm_5_in_0_q_Pierre%20Monnard">Pierre Monnard</a> (<em>Needle Park Baby, </em><em>Winter Palace</em>), with Küttel and <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22875000/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_t_3" target="_blank">Simone Schmid</a> (<em>Die Beschatter</em>) handling the scripts. Monnard and Bluemhuber share directing duties.</p>
<p>Producer Silver Reel, fresh off a 2025 International Emmy win for the YA series <em>Fallen</em>, is steering the project alongside Sky Switzerland, SRF, ARD Degeto, and Umedia. Sphere Abacus is handling international distribution, while Sky has acquired exclusive U.K. and Ireland broadcast rights.</p><p><a href="https://www.srf.ch/kultur/film-serien/drehstart-in-kuerze-srf-koproduziert-eine-neue-sherlock-holmes-serie" target="_blank">According to SRF</a>, filming will take place in Switzerland, South Tyrol, and Bavaria.</p><p><br /></p>
<h2>What Happened After Reichenbach?</h2>
<h4><span style="text-align: center;">“</span>It was, indeed, a fearful place<span style="text-align: center;">”</span> [FINA]</h4>
<p>Here is where the premise gets interesting for those of us who have spent considerable time pondering the Hiatus. Set against what the producers describe as the "majestic and merciless" Swiss Alps, the story opens with an Englishman pulled barely alive from an icy mountain stream by a local woman named Alma and her young son Franz. When the village doctor turns up murdered, suspicion falls on the boy — leaving the amnesiac stranger as his only ally.</p>
<p>The man remembers nothing of his past. But flashes of razor-sharp deduction begin to surface, betraying a hidden history. As fragments of memory return, he must reckon with a question that no Sherlockian will find suspenseful in the slightest, but which our hero apparently must work out for himself: who is he, really? </p><p>What begins as an isolated Alpine mystery widens into a far-reaching conspiracy, inching him toward the legendary name he may once have borne. It is, in essence, the Great Hiatus told as a memory-loss thriller, with the Holmes compelled to deduce his own identity.</p><p><br /></p>
<h2>A Crowded Field and a Welcome Addition</h2>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">“So many have said so, and yet here I am” [THOR]</h4>
<p>SRF notes that there are more than 250 Sherlock Holmes screen productions — making him <a href="https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2012/5/sherlock-holmes-awarded-title-for-most-portrayed-literary-human-character-in-film-tv-41743" target="_blank">the most-portrayed literary character in cinema history</a>. Adding another television series to that already groaning shelf might seem redundant, particularly at this time, but the Hiatus has always been fertile ground precisely because Conan Doyle left it so sparsely filled in. </p><p>From Nicholas Meyer's <em>The Seven-Per-Cent Solution</em> to Caleb Carr's <em>The Italian Secretary</em> and Anthony Horowitz's <em>The House of Silk</em>, writers have repeatedly returned to the question of where Holmes went and what he did.</p>
<p>What sets this production apart is its geography. Filming in the very Alps where Conan Doyle dispatched his hero — and where Sherlockians have made annual pilgrimages to Meiringen and the Reichenbach Falls for decades (the most recent by the <a href="https://pod.link/ihearofsherlock/episode/NmU4ZjQ1MjktMTNlZS00N2Y2LThmMzYtMmU5MDMwN2FmZjdm" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes Society of London having just concluded</a>) — promises an authenticity of setting that no soundstage can replicate. </p><p>Whether the storytelling rises to the level of the locations, we shall have to wait until 2027 to discover.</p>
<p>For now, we will be following with great interest. As Holmes himself observed upon his return:</p>
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<p>“<strong style="font-style: italic;">My dear Watson, I owe you a thousand apologies. I had no idea that you would be so affected.</strong>”</p><p> </p>
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<p>We trust you will be affected by this latest addition to the canon of the Sherlockian screen.</p>
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The Great Hiatus Reimagined: A New Sherlock Holmes Series Coming in 2027

“Three years had certainly not smoothed the asperities of his temper” [EMPT] Rafe Spall and Deleila Piasko (Sky) Of all the periods in the C...

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What May 4 Means for Sherlock Holmes Fans

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> <strong style="text-align: center;">“It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen” [FINA]</strong></h4><h4 style="text-align: center;"><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fK_C!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21126d7d-1ecc-42be-bd3c-88e217c74c42_500x327.jpeg" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset" style="display: inline !important;"><picture><img alt="May the 4th be with you (Victorian style)" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/21126d7d-1ecc-42be-bd3c-88e217c74c42_500x327.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":327,"width":500,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"May the 4th be with you (Victorian style)","title":"May 4, 1891","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false,"align":null,"offset":false}" height="327" sizes="100vw" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fK_C!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21126d7d-1ecc-42be-bd3c-88e217c74c42_500x327.jpeg" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fK_C!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21126d7d-1ecc-42be-bd3c-88e217c74c42_500x327.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fK_C!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21126d7d-1ecc-42be-bd3c-88e217c74c42_500x327.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fK_C!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21126d7d-1ecc-42be-bd3c-88e217c74c42_500x327.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fK_C!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21126d7d-1ecc-42be-bd3c-88e217c74c42_500x327.jpeg 1456w" title="May 4, 1891" width="500" /></picture></div></a></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fK_C!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21126d7d-1ecc-42be-bd3c-88e217c74c42_500x327.jpeg" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Find yourself anywhere online today and you’ll come across the phrase or hashtag “May the Fourth be with you.” But it’s not a date recognized only by fans of Star Wars.</p><p>For anyone who has read “The Final Problem,” the date of May 4 is less celebratory than melancholy, as that’s the short story in which Sherlock Holmes confronts his archenemy <strong>Professor Moriarty</strong> (who we’ve inexplicably never heard of up until this point in the Canon) and both of them tumble off the cliff into the Reichenbach Falls. </p><p><br /></p><h1 data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Sherlockian Road Trip</h1><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><strong><em>“come away with me for a week to the Continent.”</em></strong></h4></div><p>As you may recall, after Holmes appeared in Watson’s consulting-room and recounted his interaction with Moriarty, the two fled to the Continent, eventually landing in Switzerland:</p><blockquote><strong style="text-align: center;"><em>“</em></strong><strong><em>It was upon the 3rd of May that we reached the little village of detour, where we put up at the Englischer Hof, then kept by Peter Steiler the elder. Our landlord was an intelligent man, and spoke excellent English, having served for three years as waiter at the Grosvenor Hotel in London. At his advice, upon the afternoon of the 4th we set off together with the intention of crossing the hills and spending the night at the hamlet of Rosenlaui. We had strict injunctions, however, on no account to pass the falls of Reichenbach, which are about half-way up the hill, without making a small detour to see them.</em></strong><b><i>”</i></b></blockquote><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><pre class="text"> </pre></div><p>It was here that Conan Doyle chose the final resting place for Sherlock Holmes - a rest that was intended to be eternal but that we now know lasted nearly a decade. The description of the Reichenbach Falls is a fitting one for the epic struggle of good versus evil that took place later in the story:</p><blockquote><strong style="text-align: center;"><em>“</em></strong><strong><em>It is, indeed, a fearful place. The torrent, swollen by the melting snow, plunges into a tremendous abyss, from which the spray rolls up like the smoke from a burning house. The shaft into which the river hurls itself is an immense chasm, lined by glistening, coal-black rock, and narrowing into a creaming, boiling pit of incalculable depth, which brims over and shoots the stream onward over its jagged lip. The long sweep of green water roaring forever down, and the thick flickering curtain of spray hissing forever upwards, turn a man giddy with their constant whirl and clamour. We stood near the edge peering down at the gleam of the breaking water far below us against the black rocks, and listening to the half-human shout which came booming up with the spray out of the abyss.</em></strong><strong style="text-align: center;"><em>”</em></strong></blockquote><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><pre class="text"> </pre></div><h1>Watson Gets Fooled</h1><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><strong><em>“In a tingle of fear I was already running down the village street”</em></strong></h4></div><p>And after Watson was lured back to the Englischer Hof with the story of a patient in need (good old Watson!), he returned to the falls to find a note from Sherlock Holmes along with his alpenstock and silver cigarette case. He was led to conclude that that inevitable happened:</p><blockquote><strong style="text-align: center;"><em>“</em></strong><strong><em>An examination by experts leaves little doubt that a personal contest between the two men ended, as it could hardly fail to end in such a situation, in their reeling over, locked in each other’s arms. Any attempt at recovering the bodies was absolutely hopeless, and there, deep down in that dreadful cauldron of swirling water and seething foam, will lie for all time the most dangerous criminal and the foremost champion of the law of their generation.</em></strong><strong style="text-align: center;"><em>”</em></strong></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c38e659d-d652-420d-8b55-af06b7ad01ad_437x640.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":640,"width":437,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false,"align":null,"offset":false}" height="640" sizes="100vw" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sVj5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc38e659d-d652-420d-8b55-af06b7ad01ad_437x640.jpeg" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sVj5!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc38e659d-d652-420d-8b55-af06b7ad01ad_437x640.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sVj5!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc38e659d-d652-420d-8b55-af06b7ad01ad_437x640.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sVj5!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc38e659d-d652-420d-8b55-af06b7ad01ad_437x640.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sVj5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc38e659d-d652-420d-8b55-af06b7ad01ad_437x640.jpeg 1456w" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="437" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: left;">Sidney Paget’s frontispiece for the story in the </span><em style="text-align: left;">Strand</em><span style="text-align: left;">, which is a major spoiler</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="image2-inset" style="text-align: center;"><picture><source sizes="100vw" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sVj5!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc38e659d-d652-420d-8b55-af06b7ad01ad_437x640.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sVj5!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc38e659d-d652-420d-8b55-af06b7ad01ad_437x640.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sVj5!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc38e659d-d652-420d-8b55-af06b7ad01ad_437x640.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sVj5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc38e659d-d652-420d-8b55-af06b7ad01ad_437x640.jpeg 1456w" type="image/webp"></source></picture><div></div></div><figcaption class="image-caption"><br /></figcaption></figure></div><p>But aside from the colorful descriptions of both the setting and the action, this story above many others shows Watson’s emotional side. Over the course of two short years, readers had gotten to know Holmes and Watson through 12 stories that made up <strong><em>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</em></strong> and 11 stories that comprised <strong><em>The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes</em></strong> (as well as the previously published <strong><em>A Study in Scarlet</em></strong><em> </em>and <strong><em>The Sign of Four</em></strong>). That’s less than half of what would eventually become the entire Canon of 60 stories — stories that would be published over the course of the following 35 or so years.</p><p>For Watson as well as for the readers, that’s an intense run of stories — tales that fill us with wonder as we’ve been learning about the habits, eccentricities, limits and capabilities of the most intriguing detective that the world has ever known. </p><p>Is it any wonder then that his sudden and tragic loss affected us so deeply?<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GaMt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79b21ec4-015b-4ea7-a6ca-bd15e8ae12ae_400x291.png" target="_blank"></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Watson realizing what happened to Holmes" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/79b21ec4-015b-4ea7-a6ca-bd15e8ae12ae_400x291.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":291,"width":400,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"Watson realizing what happened to Holmes","title":"Dr. Watson, realizing the outcome at the Reichenbach Falls","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false,"align":null,"offset":false}" height="291" sizes="100vw" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GaMt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79b21ec4-015b-4ea7-a6ca-bd15e8ae12ae_400x291.png" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GaMt!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79b21ec4-015b-4ea7-a6ca-bd15e8ae12ae_400x291.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GaMt!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79b21ec4-015b-4ea7-a6ca-bd15e8ae12ae_400x291.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GaMt!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79b21ec4-015b-4ea7-a6ca-bd15e8ae12ae_400x291.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GaMt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79b21ec4-015b-4ea7-a6ca-bd15e8ae12ae_400x291.png 1456w" title="Dr. Watson, realizing the outcome at the Reichenbach Falls" width="400" /></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GaMt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79b21ec4-015b-4ea7-a6ca-bd15e8ae12ae_400x291.png" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"%%share_url%%","text":"Share","action":null,"class":null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><br /></p><h1>Spoiler Alert </h1><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><strong><em>“It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished.”</em></strong></h4></div><p>When a story opens with that kind of line, the reader has a sense of what they’re in for. We’ll never forget reading that line for the first time and feeling a little stab in the gut. The modern equivalent would be exclaiming, “Wait — <strong><em>what</em></strong>?”</p><p>Imagine Watson’s realization that this would be the case. He describes is first reaction: </p><blockquote><p><strong><em>“It was the sight of that alpenstock which turned me cold and sick...I stood for a minute or two to collect myself, for I was dazed with the horror of the thing.”</em></strong></p></blockquote><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><pre class="text"> </pre></div><p>Even Holmes understood how his untimely departure would affect his friend, writing in his farewell note,</p><p><strong></strong></p><blockquote><strong><em>“I fear that it is at a cost which will give pain to my friends, and especially, my dear Watson, to you.”</em></strong></blockquote><p></p><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><pre class="text"> </pre></div><h1>The Public Reaction</h1><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><strong><em>“in the interests of the public”</em></strong></h4></div><p>The pain was palpable to readers at the time. There is an apocryphal legend that grown men in London wore black armbands in a demonstration of mourning. We have yet to see any definitive evidence of this occurrence (and the <a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><strong><em>Baker Street Journal</em></strong></a><strong><em> </em></strong>once offered a bounty for anyone who could prove it). </p><p>But it rings true to the spirit of what happened at the time, which was an outpouring of grief over the loss of a literary character. Letters flowed to <em>The Strand Magazine </em>and to Arthur Conan Doyle himself, one even beginning <strong><em>“You brute!”</em></strong></p><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><pre class="text"><strong><em> </em></strong></pre></div><p>At least modern readers don’t have to wait eight years for Holmes to reappear in <em>The Hound of the Baskervilles </em>or ten years for the first of the stories that would make up <em>The Return of Sherlock Holmes</em>. Can you imagine what it must have been like to have to put Holmes to rest in one’s mind and to blindly wait to see if he would ever reappear?</p><p>We’re fortunate that the public outcry (and, let’s face it, a hefty payday) convinced Conan Doyle to take up his pen once more to provide us with such rich and wonderful stories to fill our desires, fuel our imagination and enrich our friendships. While May 4 may seem one for us to mourn, we’re fortunate that, as Watson observed upon Holmes’s return in “The Empty House,”</p><blockquote><p><strong><em>“once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex life of London so plentifully presents.”</em></strong></p></blockquote><p> </p><br /><hr /><h1>May the Fourth Be With You</h1><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><strong><em>“no braver man in the regiment” [BLAN]</em></strong></h4></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D8j3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a5c390e-084a-4efb-9f0a-298c1889a742_683x512.jpeg" target="_blank"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Sherlock Holmes meets Star Wars" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6a5c390e-084a-4efb-9f0a-298c1889a742_683x512.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":512,"width":683,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"Sherlock Holmes meets Star Wars","title":"Sherlockian stormtrooper","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false,"align":null,"offset":false}" height="512" sizes="100vw" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D8j3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a5c390e-084a-4efb-9f0a-298c1889a742_683x512.jpeg" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D8j3!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a5c390e-084a-4efb-9f0a-298c1889a742_683x512.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D8j3!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a5c390e-084a-4efb-9f0a-298c1889a742_683x512.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D8j3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a5c390e-084a-4efb-9f0a-298c1889a742_683x512.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D8j3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a5c390e-084a-4efb-9f0a-298c1889a742_683x512.jpeg 1456w" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Sherlockian stormtrooper" width="683" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em style="text-align: left;">Image credit: </em><a href="https://flic.kr/p/MUMbU" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><strong><em>bonniegrrl (Flickr)</em></strong></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source sizes="100vw" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D8j3!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a5c390e-084a-4efb-9f0a-298c1889a742_683x512.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D8j3!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a5c390e-084a-4efb-9f0a-298c1889a742_683x512.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D8j3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a5c390e-084a-4efb-9f0a-298c1889a742_683x512.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!D8j3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a5c390e-084a-4efb-9f0a-298c1889a742_683x512.jpeg 1456w" type="image/webp"></source></picture><div></div></div></a><br /></figure></div><p>One of the things that we enjoy about the Sherlock Holmes stories and those devotees who follow it, is the ability to weave in so many of life’s other interests. If you’ve got another hobby or passion, odds are you’ll find a way to incorporate it into your love of Sherlock Holmes.</p><p>Over the years, we’ve met Sherlockians who are also interested in horse racing, railroads, P.G. Wodehouse, pin collecting, the <em>Titanic</em>, antiques, handwriting analysis, coin and stamp collecting, woodworking, needlepoint, jewelry making, wine, pipe collecting, music, period firearms, Victorian attire — the list goes on and on. </p><p>Really, there’s no limit to the connections we can make between our interests, if we’re passionate enough about them.</p><p>So it was with little surprise — but with great amusement — that we looked at the above photo sent by <a href="http://www.cc-chapman.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>a colleague</strong></a> of the individual who is a Holmes Trooper.<br /><br />We couldn’t help but think:</p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>“May the force be with you, old chap.”</em></strong></h3><div class="preformatted-block" data-component-name="PreformattedTextBlockToDOM"><pre class="text"> </pre></div><h1>The Star Wars / Sherlock Holmes Connection(s)</h1><p>Star Wars<em> </em>and Sherlock Holmes. Hmm. There are seemingly endless possibilities</p><p>Well, if you consider that <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=Peter%20Cushing%20Sherlock&tag=scottmonty-20&index=dvd&amp;amp;linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Peter Cushing</strong></a><strong> </strong>and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=Christopher%20Lee%20Sherlock&tag=scottmonty-20&index=dvd&amp;amp;linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Christopher Lee</strong></a> appeared in the George Lucas series — albeit Cushing never made it past the first film (in carbon form, at least) and Lee managed to do damage in the final trilogy — and are actors who have portrayed Sherlock Holmes, there’s your connection.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ss2u!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7640aecb-5969-4816-a295-a93ff0b9d6c0_768x482.jpeg" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source sizes="100vw" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ss2u!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7640aecb-5969-4816-a295-a93ff0b9d6c0_768x482.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ss2u!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7640aecb-5969-4816-a295-a93ff0b9d6c0_768x482.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ss2u!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7640aecb-5969-4816-a295-a93ff0b9d6c0_768x482.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ss2u!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7640aecb-5969-4816-a295-a93ff0b9d6c0_768x482.jpeg 1456w" type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7640aecb-5969-4816-a295-a93ff0b9d6c0_768x482.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":482,"width":768,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false,"align":null,"offset":false}" height="482" sizes="100vw" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ss2u!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7640aecb-5969-4816-a295-a93ff0b9d6c0_768x482.jpeg" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ss2u!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7640aecb-5969-4816-a295-a93ff0b9d6c0_768x482.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ss2u!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7640aecb-5969-4816-a295-a93ff0b9d6c0_768x482.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ss2u!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7640aecb-5969-4816-a295-a93ff0b9d6c0_768x482.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ss2u!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7640aecb-5969-4816-a295-a93ff0b9d6c0_768x482.jpeg 1456w" width="768" /></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Of course, the more astute among you will remember that Lee also portrayed Sir Henry Baskerville in Hammer’s 1959 version of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000062XEY?ie=UTF8&tag=scottmonty-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000062XEY" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><strong><em>The Hound of the Baskervilles</em></strong></a>. And he holds the distinction of being the only actor to portray Holmes <em>and </em>his stately brother Mycroft, whom he played in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JKHF?ie=UTF8&tag=scottmonty-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00005JKHF" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><strong><em>The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes</em></strong></a>.<br /></p><h1><br /></h1><h1>Challenge</h1><p>Here’s an interesting challenge: can you go through the Star Wars universe and find connections between that cast and the Sherlock Holmes universe?</p><p>Drop a comment below.</p><p><br /></p><p>The game's afoot!</p><p> </p>

What May 4 Means for Sherlock Holmes Fans

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by Scott Monty