TIME

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SHERLOCK HOLMES MAY BE THE greatest detective ever. But it turns out his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, was no slouch himself. In a gripping new book, Conan Doyle for the Defense, journalist Margalit Fox tells the maddening story of how a German-Jewis

The Atlantic

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The BBC show seems to have difficulty fitting female characters into its universe. But it isn’t Arthur Conan Doyle’s fault.

Writing Magazine

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How do you follow up one of the most fiendishly high-concept murder mystery novels ever written? If you are Stuart Turton, the author of prize-winning, bestselling, mindboggling debut The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, the answer is that you don’

Official PlayStation Magazine - UK Edition

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Looking like the guy who stalks 30 Seconds To Mars, Frogwares’ new Sherlock Holmes adventure is taking us back to where it all began, to the great detective’s early years padding around the family estate. Set before the events of previous adventures

TIME

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WHEN YOU’RE TRYING TO SELL A SCRIPT, THE NAME Sherlock Holmes evidently helps. Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jr., Ian McKellen and Jonny Lee Miller have all played versions of the character in the past decade, and last year’s Netflix hit Enola

Woman's Own

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Shown over four nights, new ITV drama series Flesh and Blood stars Francesca Annis as Vivien, a recently widowed mum and grandmother, who sends her family into a spin by revealing that she’s got a new man. ‘Vivien’s very interesting and contemporary,

Los Angeles Times

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In the rare moments when the mystery spoof "Holmes & Watson" clicks, the movie is like a cross between a raunchy '80s comedy and a Daffy Duck cartoon. As super-detective Sherlock Holmes, Will Ferrell is just like Daffy, the overconfident hero, bluste

Total Film

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SHERLOCK AT THIS! MORI-ARTFUL ARTH-DECENT SEE WATSON ELSEWHERE SIGN OF THE BORE MOVIE OF THE MONTH WHY MILLIE BOBBY BROWN’S ENOLA IS A TRUE DETECTIVE

PC Gamer

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Redirecting power to weapons Star Wars: Squadrons Finally justified buying that expensive flightstick. Crashing helicopters Squad Learned the true value of teamwork. Now he just needs to work out who’s on his team. Gacha questions Genshin Impact Br

BBC History Magazine

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“Arthur Conan Doyle hadn’t practised for ten years due to the suc- cess of his Sherlock Holmes books, but was so keen to get out to the Boer War that he signed up with a field hospital as a surgeon. The war was also an excuse for him to leave his per

History Revealed

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In the 1870s, postal workers in the Belgian city of Liege attempted to train 37 cats to deliver the mail (fastened around their necks in waterproof bags). The experiment was not a success: the cats just wandered off. In 1903, Sherlock Holmes creator

WHO

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In the raunchy period drama about King Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), Dormer was first to get the chop as Anne Boleyn. As Margaery Tyrell in the fantasy epic, she had Cersei (Lena Headey) on her toes for a while before meeting an explosive end

Fairlady

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Sherlock Holmes has had so many incarnations over the years that it’s hard to keep track. In BBC’s Sherlock, he’s a ‘high-functioning sociopath’. In Elementary, he’s an ex-addict living in New York, with Watson reimagined as his sober female companio

BBC Science Focus Magazine

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One of the most famous fictional detectives of all time is Sherlock Holmes. Holmes uses his extraordinary skills of observation to crack seemingly impossible cases. What you might not know is that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holme

New Philosopher

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Let’s play a game of Would You Rather. Would you rather speak 5 languages or speak to animals? Would you rather run fast or fly slow? Would you rather be rich or famous? Would you rather travel 100 years to the past or the future? I know, these are h

Stamp Collector

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Perhaps the most well known fictional detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes was created by physician-turned-author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. Since then, the character’s crime stories have been told countless times, in books, on stage, televisi

Nautilus

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The first time I saw the term, I was mystified. “Hey, Dr S! We’re getting a few KOLs together to give us some advice about how to develop our new compound,” began the friendly e-mail from a pharmaceutical liaison, her return address reflecting her th

The Guardian

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Jane Austen, who died 200 years ago last Tuesday, has been enjoying an impressively vigorous afterlife. First, as an icon of her gender, there has been her controversial debut on the new £10 note, an appearance that sent some indignant Jane-ites into

Sunday Tribune

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LET the headline not alarm you. I am a massive fan of Sherlock Holmes and particularly enjoyed the Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman iteration as the famed detective and his assistant. I watched as the role led to worldwide fame for the actors,

The Australian Women's Weekly

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This is the third novel from Sydneysider Tania Blanchard inspired by her German grandmother’s tales, and we start in Australia in 2019 with a letter from Berlin. It’s about a deceased estate and its recipient is the biological daughter of the letter

Writing Magazine

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If genre-busting experimental novelist David Mitchell were a musical genre, he’d be a psychedelic prog rock band. The Cloud Atlas author’s creative flights of fantasy, replete with repeating riffs and dizzying prose that twists the timespace continuu

Official PlayStation Magazine - UK Edition

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FORMAT PS5, PS4 / ETA 2021 / PUB FROGWARES DEV FROGWARES / PLAYERS TBC Young Sherlock is 21 and taking in the sun and sights of the Mediterranean-inspired island of Cordona. Not one to avoid tragedy, soon the great detective is embroiled in solving

World Coin News

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The Royal Mint will be commemorating 160 years since the birth of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with a coin dedicated to his most famous creation – the detective Sherlock Holmes. The sleuth’s profile, complete with pipe and deerstalker will appear on a 50p

Literary Hub

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In June of 1891, “A Scandal in Bohemia,” the first short story featuring everyone’s favorite consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, was published in The Strand Magazine. (A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, both novels, had already been print

Chat

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Adrian Dunbar, Vicky McClure and Martin Compston return as AC-12 regulars Superintendent Ted Hastings, DI Kate Fleming and DS Steve Arnott in the much-anticipated sixth series of the police corruption drama. The seven-parter also stars Trainspotting

SFX

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UK/US Netflix, streaming from 26 March ▶ Creator Tom Bidwell ▶ Cast Thaddea Graham, Darci Shaw, Jojo Macari, McKell David, Harrison Osterfield, Royce Pierreson EPISODES 1.01-1.08 “Sherlock Holmes is a wanker!” It’s not the sort of line you usually he

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Titan Comics Writer Lavie Tidhar Artist Paul McCaffrey ISSUES 1-3 Bringing to mind a “League Of Extraordinary Gentlewomen”, Adler’s cast of classic, mostly Victorian characters means it explores a well-worn furrow, but Lav

Country Life

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Planning a Dickens dinner party is an enjoyable mental game. John Jarndyce and Miss Betsey Trotwood would be excellent hosts. Could Mr Fezziwig lighten the heart of ‘the lone lorn creetur' Mrs Gummidge with his jollity? Sydney Carton would be a good

SFX

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Future Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki wrote and directed some of this mid–’80s anime series, which depicts Conan Doyle’s duo as anthropomorphic pooches, and features Jules Verneesque steampunk tech. A teenage Holmes and Watson take on a huma

Time Magazine International Edition

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WHEN YOU’RE TRYING TO SELL A SCRIPT, THE NAME Sherlock Holmes evidently helps. Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jr., Ian McKellen and Jonny Lee Miller have all played versions of the character in the past decade, and last year’s Netflix hit Enola