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Jan 27 2020/

The FINANCIAL -- It has been countless decades since the pale inhabitant of 221B Baker Street with his charcoal hair, infamous hat and unrivalled deductive skills, used to reign supreme and defend the title of the brightest detective, inspiring youth all around the world and being run as one of the most successful fictional franchises ever since.

Jan 16 2020/

NO; MEMBERS OF your local Sherlock Holmes society do not wear deerstalker caps and smoke pipes when they meet. Not usually, anyway. They’re into mysteries, Victorian-era history, storytelling — and sure, sometimes dressing up. More than anything, The Sound...

Nov 21 2019/

Where is Sherlock season 5, eh? Come January 2020, it will have been three years since we last saw Benedict Cumberbatch as narcissistic genius Sherlock Holmes on our screens. The BBC series first kicked off back in 2010 and ran for four seasons  ...

Oct 30 2019/

Charles Veley and Anna Elliot collaborate on the Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mysteries (The Storyteller's Cottage) On Sunday, November 4, from 3:00-4:30pm, the Storyteller's Cottage will host a double feature Author Salon with father-daughter author duo ...

Oct 17 2019/

The author and director instead sat down to talk to the crowd about something more important — the underlying basis for his new book and why he returned to the Sherlock Holmes fantasy after 26 years away from the subject. "How do you take on Donald Trump, ...

Oct 10 2019/

Meyer’s fourth and latest outing in his Sherlock Holmes series is “The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols” (Minotaur Books), which sets the most famous detective in literary history on a very real historical mystery: Who forged the notorious anti-Semitic screed ...

Oct 03 2019/

A SHERLOCK Holmes 50p coin has sold on eBay for £500 - 100 times what it's worth at face value. The coin features the profile of the fictional detective, who's wearing his iconic deerstalker hat and smoking pipe. Behind him are tiny inscriptions of the ...

Sep 30 2019/

Abdul-Jabbar’s latest book, “Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s record of 38,387 career NBA points has stood for 20 years. According to his manager, Deborah Morales, Abdul-Jabbar — author of 16 books, only six about basketball — has written more words than he scored points during his 21-year ...

Sep 27 2019/

Sherlock Holmes developer says its publisher is pulling its games from stores against the studio’s wishes

A few Sherlock Holmes games have started disappearing off the PlayStation and Xbox stores, and according to developer Frogwares, the reason isn’t too complicated. Frogwares released a statement on Twitter on Thursday morning claiming that publisher ...

Jan 27 2020/

Sian Brooke plays the sweet mother of the antichrist Diedre Young in the Good Omens series. But she is used to playing much more complex characters, notably Eurus Holmes. Eurus was the secret sister of Sherlock Holmes (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) in the ...

Dec 09 2019/

How would Sherlock Holmes have solved the Brexit mystery? “When you have eliminated the impossible,” Britain’s most loved fictional detective famously said, “whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” After another week of ...

Nov 18 2019/

EBAY can be a great platform to find brilliant bargains, rare finds, and random artifacts, but when a ‘rare’ commemorative Sherlock Holmes coin is being listed for a staggering £20,000 coin enthusiasts should be aware of this one thing, experts warn.

Oct 18 2019/

One hundred and 32 years after Sherlock Holmes made his debut in an English detective novel, mystery entertainment is a bigger business than ever and does not appear to be slowing down soon. Nancy Drew, the beloved redheaded sleuth who’s been delighting ...

Oct 12 2019/

Liverpool has been transformed by film crews once again to provide the backdrop for a new Sherlock Holmes series. Camera crews were spotted in the city centre and at the palm house in Sefton Park on two filming dates in September, as period drama props were ...

Oct 07 2019/

After seven seasons, Elementary is drawing to a close. You can watch the last-ever episodes of the modern-day US take on Sherlock Holmes on Sky Witness over the coming weeks – plus, the series is available from start to finish, too. There’s also plenty ...

Oct 01 2019/

Theater spotlight: First Folio, Arranmore Arts salute Sherlock Holmes with new shows

Describing First Folio Theatre's season-opening production "Sherlock's Last Case," director Janice L. Blixt called it a "love letter to 221B Baker Street and to individuals who cherish Sherlock Holmes." Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's characters, Charles ...

Sep 28 2019/

Nicholas Meyer returns with another Sherlock Holmes book

In 1974, Nicholas Meyer published The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, a novel about Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. The book was a bestseller and became a hit film. Meyer, who is also a movie and television director (HBO’s Vendetta), has recently published his fourth novel about Holmes, The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols. ...

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