Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Sherlock Holmes by Kim H. The Golden Years by Kim H. In the end, this historically accurate chronicle sheds new light on greatest mystery of all, Sherlock Holmes himself. Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Sherlock Holmes , please sign up. What do you think Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson did after they retired in about ? Kim Krisco Holmes tried. Sherlock Holmes - The Golden Years is about is unsuccessful effort to retire.
The sequel, Irregular Lives, tells the story about how a mysterious photo exhibition that featured some of his "irregulars" drags him back into the solving mysteries. See 1 question about Sherlock Holmes…. Lists with This Book. Nov 17, Philip Jones rated it it was amazing. The description on the back of this book caused me to worry that I was in for a set of tales steeped in the supernatural, but all such fears were put to rest by the first story.
Eventually, all five proved to be based firmly in reality, with only a few nods at another orientation in the final tale. This collection of five novellas is one of the finest sets of Sherlockian fiction I have seen. The author has a good grasp of Nineteenth Century British politics and thought and each of the tales look The description on the back of this book caused me to worry that I was in for a set of tales steeped in the supernatural, but all such fears were put to rest by the first story.
The author has a good grasp of Nineteenth Century British politics and thought and each of the tales looks at seldom seen sides of that world. The author also plans to continue this set of tales in future. The narrative progresses, bringing in more of her family, as time goes on. This mystery begins with a request by G. Chesterton to investigate events that occurred following the birth of an illegitimate daughter to a former servant of his.
Among other things, it takes place mostly in Battle Creek, Michigan, for quite reasonable causes. Native magic is holding up completion of the Cape to Cairo railway and Holmes is needed to put it back on track before the coming War demands its use. Some events occur in this tale for which explanations are not provided. These five tales are rich in details.
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Many historical characters are portrayed, some with no more explanation than a name. Many of the characters will reward further studies. While these tales do not use Dr. Watson for specific reasons and in particular ways in all but six of the tales. Dec 16, crimethrillerhound.
They can be read as stand-alone tales but are better read in the chronologically order in which they appear. Retired Holmes and Watson are reunited to solve an initial mystery arising from myth and bones found on the Scottish hills.
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This case eventually leads to Irene Adler and her daughter, and a story thread that continues to the last tale. Holmes and Watson soon fall back to old habits and the interplay between them is natural. As you might expect, dark forces are at work. The main criminal mastermind is the Moriartyesque Ciaran Malastier, one of a dangerous group of influential people on both sides of the pond whose sights and practices are set on eugenics.
The chase for the murderous Malastier takes Holmes and Watson across seas as their new adventures see them meet an array of interesting characters, some new, some familiar. Having Houdini and Conan Doyle together makes sense, given their actual friendship and shared interests, but placing Holmes and his creator in the same scene was inspired. The crimes all seem to fit a historical context that rings true. Murder - and the serious threat of it - misdirection and mystery is afoot. Mar 24, Carson rated it liked it.
The idea of a "Golden Years" Holmes collection of stories gave me an expectation of an aging Holmes pulled into cases while grappling with diminishing capabilities. This was not that story. There are times, such as in the "Maestro of Mysteries" story where I was captivated. There were oth The idea of a "Golden Years" Holmes collection of stories gave me an expectation of an aging Holmes pulled into cases while grappling with diminishing capabilities. There were other times I felt the book could use an editor and felt it was a little more disjointed from the voice of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The way I judge Holmes fiction is how authentic it feels to the purely logical and traditional Holmes stories I read in my youth. At brief times, this one grabbed me and at far more others, it felt completely apart. In all, it was a worthwhile read. I felt Krisco's Watson felt like the old Watson; it's just that this "Golden Years" Holmes resembled less of what I love of Holmes while trying to breathe a new side into his persona. It was a worthy effort. Jul 19, Jayaprakash Satyamurthy rated it it was amazing.
An excellent addition to the apocrypha, this volume features Holmes and Watson retiring from retirement. Times have changed and Holmes often feels out of place in a world that is steadily hurtling towards the global conflicts that ripped apart the late-Victorian world that was his natural habitat. Old familiar characters are brought back in interesting, worthwhile ways and the indomitable duo extend their activities to USA and South Africa. Altogether a thrilling collection of tales, shot throug An excellent addition to the apocrypha, this volume features Holmes and Watson retiring from retirement.
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The world of Mary Russell, apprentice-turned-part… More. Shelve The Mary Russell Companion. Holmes does employ deductive reasoning as well. The detective's guiding principle, as he says in The Sign of the Four and other stories, is: Despite Holmes' remarkable reasoning abilities, Conan Doyle still paints him as fallible in this regard this being a central theme of " The Adventure of the Yellow Face ". Though Holmes is famed for his reasoning capabilities, his investigative technique relies heavily on the acquisition of hard evidence.
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Many of the techniques he employs in the stories were at the time in their infancy for example, Scotland Yard's fingerprint bureau opened in Because of the small scale of much of his evidence, the detective often uses a magnifying glass at the scene and an optical microscope at his Baker Street lodgings.
He uses analytical chemistry for blood residue analysis and toxicology to detect poisons; Holmes's home chemistry laboratory is mentioned in "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty". Ballistics feature in "The Adventure of the Empty House" when spent bullets are recovered and matched with a suspected murder weapon. Holmes displays a strong aptitude for acting and disguise. In the latter story, Watson says, "The stage lost a fine actor Holmes and Watson carry often pistols with them—in Watson's case, his old service weapon probably a Mark III Adams revolver , issued to British troops during the s.
As a gentleman, Holmes often carries a stick or cane. He is described by Watson as an expert at singlestick and uses his cane twice as a weapon. The detective is described or demonstrated as possessing above-average physical strength. Roylott demonstrates his strength by bending a fire poker in half. Watson describes Holmes as laughing, "'if he had remained I might have shown him that my grip was not much more feeble than his own. Holmes is an adept bare-knuckle fighter; "The Adventure of the Gloria Scott " mentions that Holmes trained as a boxer. In The Sign of the Four , he introduces himself to McMurdo, a prize fighter , as "the amateur who fought three rounds with you at Alison's rooms on the night of your benefit four years back.
You might have aimed high if you had joined the fancy. The detective occasionally engages in hand-to-hand combat with his adversaries in "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist" and " The Adventure of the Naval Treaty ". Although Holmes is not the original fictional detective, his name has become synonymous with the role. Sayers ' Lord Peter Wimsey became a successful character for a number of authors. The phrase "Elementary, my dear Watson" is never uttered by Holmes in the sixty stories written by Conan Doyle.
He often observes that his conclusions are "elementary", however, and occasionally calls Watson "my dear Watson". One of the nearest approximations of the phrase appears in "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" when Holmes explains a deduction: William Gillette is widely considered to have originated the phrase with the formulation, "Oh, this is elementary, my dear fellow", allegedly in his play Sherlock Holmes.
However, the script was revised numerous times over the course of some three decades of revivals and publications, and the phrase is present in some versions of the script, but not others. Wodehouse 's novel, Psmith in the City —10 , [65] and "Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary" in his novel Psmith, Journalist neither spoken by Holmes.
It also appears at the end of the film The Return of Sherlock Holmes , the first Holmes sound film. Conan Doyle's 56 short stories and four novels are known as the " canon " by Holmes aficionados. The Sherlockian game also known as the Holmesian game, the Great Game, or simply the Game attempts to resolve anomalies and clarify details about Holmes and Watson from the canon. The Game, which treats Holmes and Watson as real people and Conan Doyle as Watson's literary agent , combines history with aspects of the stories to construct biographies and other scholarly analyses of these aspects.
Ronald Knox is credited with inventing the Game. One detail analyzed in the Game is Holmes's birth date. The chronology of the stories is notoriously difficult, with many stories lacking dates and many others containing contradictory ones.
A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective contend that the detective was born on 6 January , the year being derived from the statement in "His Last Bow" that he was 60 years of age in , while the precise day is derived from broader, non-canonical speculation. King also speculated about Holmes's birth date.
She instead argues that details in "The Adventure of the Gloria Scott " a story with no precise internal date indicate that Holmes finished his second and final year of university in or If he began university at age 17, his birth year could be as late as Holmes's emotional and mental health have long been subjects of analysis in the Game. At their first meeting, in A Study in Scarlet , the detective warns Watson that he gets "in the dumps at times" and doesn't open his "mouth for days on end".
Klinger has suggested that Holmes exhibits signs of bipolar disorder , with intense enthusiasm followed by indolent self-absorption. John Radford speculated on Holmes's intelligence. Snyder examined Holmes's methods in the context of mid- to lateth-century criminology. Both are still active, although the Sherlock Holmes Society was dissolved in and revived in The London society is one of many worldwide who arrange visits to the scenes of Holmes adventures, such as the Reichenbach Falls in the Swiss Alps.
The two societies founded in were followed by many more, first in the U. There are at least societies worldwide, including Australia, Canada The Bootmakers of Toronto , India, and Japan whose society has 80, members. For the Festival of Britain , Holmes's living room was reconstructed as part of a Sherlock Holmes exhibition, with a collection of original material. After the festival, items were transferred to The Sherlock Holmes a London pub and the Conan Doyle collection housed in Lucens , Switzerland by the author's son, Adrian.
In , the Sherlock Holmes Museum opened on Baker Street in London, followed the next year by a museum in Meiringen near the Reichenbach Falls dedicated to the detective. The London Metropolitan Railway named one of its 20 electric locomotives deployed in the s for Sherlock Holmes. He was the only fictional character so honoured, along with eminent Britons such as Lord Byron , Benjamin Disraeli , and Florence Nightingale.
A number of London streets are associated with Holmes. In , the Royal Society of Chemistry bestowed an honorary fellowship on Holmes [89] for his use of forensic science and analytical chemistry in popular literature, making him as of the only fictional character thus honoured. The popularity of Sherlock Holmes has meant that many writers other than Arthur Conan Doyle have created tales of the detective in a wide variety of different media, with varying degrees of fidelity to the original characters, stories, and setting.
According to The Alternative Sherlock Holmes: A common pastiche approach is to create a new story fully detailing an otherwise-passing canonical reference such as an aside by Conan Doyle mentioning the " giant rat of Sumatra , a story for which the world is not yet prepared" in " The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire ". Other adaptations have seen the character taken in radically different directions or placed in different times or even universes.
For example, Holmes falls in love and marries in Laurie R. King 's Mary Russell series, is re-animated after his death to fight future crime in the animated series Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century , and is meshed with the setting of H. An especially influential pastiche was Nicholas Meyer 's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution , a New York Times bestselling novel in which Holmes's cocaine addiction has progressed to the point of endangering his career.
It was made into a film of the same name in and popularised the pastiche-writing trend of incorporating clearly identified and contemporaneous historical figures such as Oscar Wilde , Aleister Crowley , or Jack the Ripper into tales featuring Holmes, something Conan Doyle himself never did. In addition to the Holmes canon , Conan Doyle's " The Lost Special " features an unnamed "amateur reasoner" intended to be identified as Holmes by his readers. The author's explanation of a baffling disappearance argued in Holmesian style poked fun at his own creation.
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The author wrote other material, especially plays, featuring Holmes. Much of it appears in Sherlock Holmes: Milne , and P. Wodehouse have all written Sherlock Holmes pastiches. Some authors have written tales centred on characters from the canon other than Holmes. Trow has written a series of seventeen books using Inspector Lestrade as the central character, beginning with The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade in Holmes retelling that story from Adler's point of view.
Martin Davies has written three novels where Baker Street housekeeper Mrs. Hudson is the protagonist. Mycroft Holmes has been the subject of several efforts: Enter the Lion by Michael P. Hodel and Sean M. John Gardner , Michael Kurland , and Kim Newman , amongst many others, have all written tales in which Holmes's nemesis Professor Moriarty is the main character.
Anthologies edited by Michael Kurland and George Mann are entirely devoted to stories told from the perspective of characters other than Holmes and Watson. Her Holmes, semi-retired in Sussex, is stumbled upon by a teenaged American girl. Recognising a kindred spirit, he trains her as his apprentice and subsequently marries her. As of , the series includes fifteen novels and a novella tied into a book from King's Kate Martinelli series The Art of Detection. The Final Solution , a novella by Michael Chabon , concerns an unnamed but long-retired detective interested in beekeeping who tackles the case of a missing parrot belonging to a Jewish refugee boy.
Mitch Cullin 's novel A Slight Trick of the Mind takes place two years after the end of the Second World War , and explores an old and frail Sherlock Holmes now 93 as he comes to terms with a life spent in emotionless logic; this was also adapted into a film, 's Mr. There have been a host of scholarly works dealing with Sherlock Holmes, some working within the bounds of the Great Game, and some written with the understanding that Holmes is a fictional character. In particular, there have been three major annotated editions of the complete series.
This two-volume set was ordered to fit Baring-Gould's preferred chronology, and was written from a Great Game perspective. The second was 's The Oxford Sherlock Holmes general editor: Owen Dudley Edwards , a nine-volume set written in a straight scholarly manner. Guinness World Records has listed Holmes as the "most portrayed movie character", [2] with more than 70 actors playing the part in over films. His first screen appearance was in the Mutoscope film, Sherlock Holmes Baffled. In addition to its popularity, the play is significant because it, rather than the original stories, introduced one of the key visual qualities commonly associated with Holmes today: In his lifetime, Gillette performed as Holmes some 1, times.
In the early s, H. Saintsbury took over the role from Gillette for a tour of the play. While the Fox films were period pieces, the Universal films abandoned Victorian Britain and moved to a then-contemporary setting in which Holmes occasionally battled Nazis. The series was co-directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Between and , Soviet television produced a series of five television films, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Livanov was appointed an Honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire [98] for a performance ambassador Anthony Brenton described as "one of the best I've ever seen".
Jeremy Brett played the detective in seven series of Sherlock Holmes for Britain's Granada Television from to Watson was played by David Burke in the first three series and Edward Hardwicke in the remainder. A Game of Shadows. In May a release date of 25 December was set for the third film in the series. In the series, created by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat , the stories' original Victorian setting is replaced by present-day London. Cumberbatch's Holmes uses modern technology including texting and blogging to help solve crimes.
The film Mr. Holmes starred Ian McKellen as a retired Sherlock Holmes living in Sussex, in , who grapples with an unsolved case involving a beautiful woman.
Holmes has also appeared in video games, including the Sherlock Holmes series of eight main titles. According to the publisher, Frogwares , the series has sold over seven million copies. The copyright for Conan Doyle's works expired in the United Kingdom and Canada at the end of , was revived in and expired again at the end of The author's works are now in the public domain in those territories. On 14 February , Leslie S. Klinger lawyer and editor of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes filed a declaratory judgement suit against the Conan Doyle estate in the Northern District of Illinois asking the court to acknowledge that the characters of Holmes and Watson were public domain in the U.
Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case, letting the appeals court's ruling stand. This final step resulted in the characters from the Holmes stories, along with all but ten of the stories themselves those present in The Case-Book other than "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone" and "The Problem of Thor Bridge" , being in the public domain in the U.
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