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Canon Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock the BBC series and everything in-between. Facts, quotes, videos and more. Have a question? Feel free to ask.

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Hiatus...

To all my wonderful followers and non-followers, Due to some events, I am taking a hiatus. I will be back. My ask box is open and I will check my tumblr. Tea

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The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger Illustrator: Frederic Dorr Steele Courtesy of: U.M. library

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The Boscombe Valley Mystery

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The Adventure of the Norwood Builder Mrs. Lexington. Illustrator: Frederic Dorr Steele Collier's Magazine, October 1903

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Behind the Scenes

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Sherlock Holmes Playing Cards By popular demand: All other characters in deck. Produced in 1989 by The Gemaco Playing Card Company. Illustrations by: F. Vacante Rest of the deck: here and here. (Click for larger images) Images used with direct permission from: Albinas Borisevicius (please do not copy).

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The Adventure of the Illustrious Client 1924

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Behind the Scenes Jeremy Brett and David Burke discuss a scene during 'hair and makeup'.

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The first Sherlock Holmes game.

 Created by Parker Brothers in  1904. 

For three to eight players. 

The entire deck is dealt.  Each player  turns up the top card from their stack at the same time.  If a player sees that another  has turned up a card matching their  own they take that card.  A “Sherlock Holmes” card allows the player to take all “captured” cards of any one player.

When a player has run out of cards in their stack three times,  the number of captured  cards that say “Thief,” “Robber” and  “Burglar”are counted. The player with the most cards wins.

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Sherlock Holmes Playing Cards Produced in 1989 by The Gemaco Playing Card Company. Illustrations by: F. Vacante (Click for larger images) Images used with permission from: Albinas Borisevicius (please do not copy)

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Canon Sherlock Holmes Comic Books Dan Day created a unique form of Comic Books: Printing selected text from the canon stories and illustrating the rest to convey the story. No text "bubbles" were ever used. Twenty comic books were published in total. Each issue had a full color cover while the interior illustrations were in black and white. Another notable aspect: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and nearly every other character was portrayed by those who started in Holmes films and radio series. Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce were used most often as Holmes and Watson. The original run of fiftteen was published bi-monthly in 1988 by Renegade Press. The remaining five issues were published by Northstar.

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Detective Comics 50th Anniversary Detective Comics Vol 1 #572 published March, 1987. Synopisis of Comic: Batman, Robin, Slam Bradley and Elongated Man all become involved in the same case, arriving through various different angles. The great-grandnephew of Holmes' infamous opponent Professor Moriarty has chosen to revisit, and vastly improve upon, his relative's greatest failure. He will assassinate the Queen of England 100 years to the day since the first Moriarty failed to get rid of Queen Victoria. Aided by Dr. Watson's granddaughter, the detectives rescue Queen Elizabeth from an exploding replica of the Domesday book. They are also given a surprise assist by Sherlock Holmes himself, who was remained alive thanks to an excellent diet and the pure air of the Tibetan mountains. Holmes gives his blessing to his friend's granddaughter, and to her fiancé, another descendant of Moriarty, but one who has not inherited the strain of evil. The flashback to 1886 is an "untold tale" of Sherlock Holmes entitled "The Adventure of the Red Leech." Cover Artist: Mike Kaluta Writers: Mike W. Barr Pencilers: Alan Davis, Terry Beatty, Carmine Infantino, E.R. Cruz, Dick Sprang Inkers: Alan Davis, Dick Giordano, Al Vey, E.R. Cruz, Dick Sprang Colourists: Adrienne Roy, Carl Gafford Letterers: John Workman, Romeo Francisco, Todd Klein

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Behind the Scenes Scene rehearsal.

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Behind the Scenes

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Danish First Editions of Sherlock Holmes Left to right: Study In Scarlet, The Hound of the Baskervilles, A Scandal in Bohemia, and At Work Again aka as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Published: Forlaget Nyttebøger, 1944 Translated by: by Verner Seemann. Illustrated by: V. Setoft.

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Sherlock BBC & Canon Parallels A Study in Pink & The Sign of Four

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Basil Rathbone

Aged two or three.

Photographer unknown.

For photos of Rathbone and his siblings click here.