American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

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The appearance of the line "Elementary, my dear Potson" in a Sherlock Holmes parody from 1901 has led some authors to speculate that, rather than this being an incidental formulation, the parodist drew upon an already well-established occurrences of "Elementary, my dear Watson. In 1931 Raymond Massey played Sherlock Holmes in his screen debut, The Speckled Band, [26] while Arthur Wontner played Holmes in five British films from 1931 to 1937. He was the only fictional character so honoured, along with eminent Britons such as Lord Byron, Benjamin Disraeli, and Florence Nightingale. The way his round rimless glasses fit extra-snuggly around his temples—a requirement for a chemist who spent much of his time leaning over a microscope.

American Sherlock: Murder, forensics, and the birth of crime

In " The Adventure of the Empty House", Holmes tells Watson that he used a Japanese martial art known as baritsu to fling Moriarty to his death in the Reichenbach Falls. The Sherlock Holmes Society was dissolved later in the 1930s, but was succeeded by a society with a slightly different name, the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, which was founded in 1951 and remains active. The chronology of the stories is notoriously difficult, with many stories lacking dates and many others containing contradictory ones. Short stories featuring sage-detective Zavant Konniger and his halfling manservant Vido, written by fantasy authors Gordon Rennie and Josh Reynolds for the Warhammer Fantasy universe, were published by Black Library from 2002 to 2018, including "How Vido Learned the Trick" (" How Watson Learned the Trick") and "The Problem of Three-Toll Bridge" (" The Problem of Thor Bridge"). Studios published a four-part series entitled Muppet Sherlock Holmes which featured Gonzo as Holmes, [16] Fozzie Bear as Dr.For example, in "A Scandal in Bohemia", Holmes infers that Watson had got wet lately and had "a most clumsy and careless servant girl. He is known only in select professional circles at the beginning of the first story, but is already collaborating with Scotland Yard. In this context, a client is offering to double his fee, and it is implied that wealthy clients habitually pay Holmes more than his standard rate.

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The second was 1993's The Oxford Sherlock Holmes (general editor: Owen Dudley Edwards), a nine-volume set written in a straight scholarly manner.

John Watson, respectively, in the film Sherlock Holmes, directed by Guy Ritchie and released in 2009, and its sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, released in 2011. The series were split into eleven episodes and starred Vasily Livanov as Holmes and Vitaly Solomin as Watson. William Gillette is widely considered to have originated the phrase with the formulation, "Oh, this is elementary, my dear fellow", allegedly in his 1899 play Sherlock Holmes.

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Local police forces were underfunded, poorly instructed, and mostly using investigative techniques that hadn’t been updated since the Victorian era. Other actors who played Holmes in those films were Otto Lagoni, Einar Zangenberg, Lauritz Olsen, and Alwin Neuss. As Conan Doyle wrote to Joseph Bell, "Holmes is as inhuman as a Babbage's Calculating Machine and just about as likely to fall in love.

She wrote for the 1930–1936 radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, both adapting Doyle's classic tales and writing new adventures in the Holmesian style. Though the address 221B Baker Street did not exist when the stories were first published, letters began arriving to the large Abbey National building which first encompassed that address almost as soon as it was built in 1932. Oscar Heinrich, ‘The American Sherlock Holmes’ is the most famous criminalist you’ve likely never heard of. The 1899 play Sherlock Holmes, by Conan Doyle and William Gillette, was a synthesis of several Conan Doyle stories. After walks, has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their colour and consistence in what part of London he had received them.