![]() If that's the sort of thing you'll likely enjoy for years, especially when it's contained in a single well-bound volume that will add a literary elegance to your favorite coffee table. And what of all those homages that have been created by others, the myriad expansions of the original mythos via books and movies and TV shows and plays and video games? Would you like an exploration of those as well? Sterling. And you'd also like a consideration of the late-Victorian times in which the tales are set, and a guide to the fictional and real-life detectives that preceded Holmes – and the underpinnings of the methods they practiced? Splendid. How about a story-by-story explication, complete with informative tangential sidebars, of the entire canon? Indeed. And now here's the latest in this series of "Big Ideas Simply Explained," concerning the popular Sherlock and his author and the adventures of both of them – real and imagined.įancy a rich parcel of biographical background on Doyle? Done. ![]() Of late, the esteemed house of DK has been releasing books that are more textual than pictorial (although no less beautifully designed and containing a wealth of images): The Business Book, The Religions Book, The Shakespeare Book, and so on. You want to make things easier to see? To encourage, through visual clarity, practical observation? Then the graphic design long practiced in books published by Dorling Kindersley will be among your best gambits. John Watson in the very first Holmes short story by Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Scandal in Bohemia," published in The Strand Magazine in 1891. The great consulting detective Sherlock Holmes tells this to his companion Dr. The Sherlock Holmes Book DK Books, 352 pp., $25 We've been waiting ages for this, fellow Sherlockians, and these last few days may be the hardest of all to wait, so the Chronicle has assembled some recent releases about our favorite detective to help you pass the time. (See "Sherlock on the Big Screen.") This one-off titled The Abominable Bride will give us not only our first look at Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes since February of 2014, but our first look at him as the Victorian version of the character. (Those in Central Texas also had the chance to see the detective onstage in Penfold Theatre's The Hound of the Baskervilles.) And for many, the most significant thing about the start of 2016 is a new installment of the BBC series Sherlock, premiering New Year's Day on PBS, followed by cinema showings Jan. Holmes, with Ian McKellen as an aged Sherlock keeping bees in Sussex a third season of CBS TV's Elementary, starring Jonny Lee Miller as a modern-day Holmes in New York City and even some coloring books. In 2015 alone, fans have been treated to dozens of new novels and stories starring Sherlock or characters from the original tales (Sherlock's brother Mycroft, evil Professor Moriarty, Irene Adler) the film Mr. Now, more than 125 years since Holmes' debut, hundreds if not thousands of adventures with the detective have been added to Doyle's canon. By the time Doyle bid Sherlock farewell for good, the sleuth was regularly engaged in cases concocted by others, in print, onstage, and on film. And each year, more writers joined the game. Indeed, the fascination with Holmes was so great that even before Doyle himself resurrected the character, the Great Detective was given new life by other writers, mostly in brief pieces that parodied the character but also a few pastiches that aped the style of the original stories. Its clamor for more Sherlock led the writer to return to 221-B Baker Street in 1901 and add another 32 stories and two novels to the two dozen tales and two novels he'd already penned. Doyle may have grown weary of Holmes, but the public hadn't. Though Arthur Conan Doyle wrote his last Sherlock Holmes story in 1927, it did nothing to stem the tide of tales about the detective, any more than when the author shoved his creation off Reichenbach Falls in an effort to exterminate him 34 years before.
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