The handwritten final copy draft of "The Sign of Four" is expected to fetch close to $1.2 million, given its significance and ...

Sherlock Holmes debuted in 1887 in "A Study in Scarlet," and in a short time proved so popular that Conan Doyle felt compelled to "kill" him in "The Final Problem," published in 1893. Recognizing ...

Holmes and Watson, having made their debut in Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet in 1887, were famous enough by 1891 for Doyle’s friend JM Barrie to publish the first of several Sherlock skits.

In this extract, taken from Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet, the narrator Dr. Watson shares his impressions of Sherlock Holmes with the reader. What is the effect of the narrative ...

The main character in the novel is the private detective, Sherlock Holmes. He is presented through the viewpoint of his friend, Dr John Watson, the narrator of the story. Watson describes him as a ...

Please verify your email address. 1975 saw the rekease of a musical-comedy starring Gene Wilder entitled The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother. Although that film followed Sherlock's ...

A team of restoration experts are reviving film strips from a silent version of Sherlock Holmes. "Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases" has way more footage than a modern Hollywood movie.

When Holmes famously quips that the solution of a case is "elementary," he's not simply dismissing the detective work as easy. Rather, he's talking about elements, the essentials of a situation.

Sherlock Holmes fans are being promised a most authentic depiction of the fictional detective, with the restoration of a ...

in a huge twist that added a major new character to the original Sherlock Holmes canon, confounded fans who had been expecting to be introduced to a third Holmes brother, yet had nothing to do ...

Ruth Sherlock is an International Correspondent with National Public Radio. She's based in Beirut and reports on Syria and other countries around the Middle East. She was previously the United ...

EXCLUSIVE: Guy Ritchie‘s Young Sherlock series has cast the title character’s older brother. Max Irons (Condor) is set as a series regular on the Prime Video show, playing Mycroft Holmes ...