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->''"Here dwell together still two men of note\\
Who never lived and so can never die:\\
How very near they seem, yet how remote\\
That age before the world went all awry.\\
But still, the game's afoot for those with ears\\
Attuned to catch the distant view-halloo:\\
England is England yet, for all our fears—\\
Only those things the heart '''believes''' are true.\\\
A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane\\
As night descends upon this fabled street:\\
A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,\\
The ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.\\
Here, though the world explode, these two survive,\\
And it is always eighteen ninety-five."''
-->-- '''Vincent Starrett''', "221B"
'''[[TropeCodifier The]]''' GreatDetective. As {{Dracula}} is to vampires and Franchise/{{Superman}} is to superheroes, so Sherlock Holmes is to detectives.
Created by Creator/SirArthurConanDoyle, Sherlock Holmes is a fictional PrivateDetective (or, Consulting Detective, [[InsistentTerminology the term he preferred]]), an analytical genius with generally unrivaled deductive powers (and a [[NoSocialSkills certain disregard of social norms]] [[note]]Though various adaptations tend to overplay this; in the stories, he can occasionally be TheSocialExpert[[/note]]). The original version lived in VictorianLondon, at 221B Baker Street.
Holmes was assisted by his trusty {{sidekick}}, [[TheWatson Doctor John Watson]], an ex-army surgeon with an injured limb. Watson also served as CharacterNarrator: the majority of Holmes's adventures were told via the FramingDevice of Watson's journals, with only four exceptions: ''His Last Bow'' and ''The Mazarin Stone'' are both told in the third person, whilst ''The Blanched Soldier'' and ''The Lion's Mane'' are both narrated by Holmes himself, and don't feature Watson at all.
Holmes had a number of well-known {{catch phrase}}s: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth", "The game's afoot" (itself a quote from Creator/{{Shakespeare}}'s ''Theatre/HenryV''), "ThePlotThickens", and, most famously, "Elementary, my dear Watson" (which Holmes [[BeamMeUpScotty never actually said]] in any of Doyle's stories).
Doyle admitted that he [[OlderThanTheyThink based the character of Holmes]] on Dr. Joseph Bell, one of his professors from University, and Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's Literature/CAugusteDupin. This is lampshaded in a rather blunt statement made by Holmes within the story in which he is originally introduced ("Literature/AStudyInScarlet"), "Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine." (In later stories, Holmes isn't above performing this precise feat on Watson, to show that he's perfectly capable of doing it; he just considers it flashy, rather than genuinely useful.)
Throughout the stories, only one person ever refers to Holmes as "Sherlock", and that's his brother. Nearly everyone else, even Watson, calls him "Holmes" or "''Mister'' Holmes". This is normal for Victorian and Edwardian England; at the time, men would only use a first name to address family members, romantic partners (and you had to be all-but-engaged), junior servants, or children[[note]]women ''might'' use first names alone for each other, but only if they were the closest of friends -- e.g. [[Literature/PrideAndPrejudice Elizabeth Bennet and Charlotte Lucas]][[/note]]. One minor character in "The Sign of Four" refers to him as "Mister Sherlock", which, in context, implied that he'd known Holmes since boyhood. Additionally, this is updated and [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] in the 2011 Ritchie sequel, where Mycroft calls his brother "[[GenderBlenderName Sherly]]" on a number of occasions.
'''Other recurring characters in the Holmes stories were:'''
* Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard. Initially, he was mildly antagonistic as he disapproved of Holmes's interference in police matters, but he later came to respect and rely on the detective. Holmes would usually allow -- or insist -- that Lestrade take full credit for cases that Holmes had solved. (While Holmes worked with other Scotland Yard detectives, several of whom are even recurring characters, Lestrade is the best known.)
* Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's AloofBigBrother. Mycroft's role varied from time to time, but he was generally AlwaysSomeoneBetter to Holmes. Even Sherlock acknowledged that Mycroft's mind was sharper than his own, but his skills were largely wasted due to his [[BrilliantButLazy exceptional sloth]]: almost nothing piqued Mycroft's interest enough to lure him out of the familiar surroundings of his favorite private club. Mycroft was some sort of government functionary, whose official duties were limited, but "In certain cases, Mycroft ''is'' the British Government."
* [[MirrorCharacter Professor James Moriarty]], Holmes's personal EvilCounterpart; a mathematician and criminal mastermind whom Holmes described as "the Napoleon of Crime". Moriarty was killed (as, apparently, was Holmes, though he turned out to be NotQuiteDead) in "The Final Problem", his introductory story, though Conan Doyle went on to reuse Moriarty in ''The Valley of Fear'', a novel whose action takes place before that of "The Final Problem." Moriarty's henchman, Colonel Sebastian Moran, is the villain of "The Adventure of the Empty House", and has been used in many post-Doyle Holmes stories.
* Irene Adler. Though her only appearance in the Doyle canon was "A Scandal in Bohemia", it was a memorable one as she managed to outwit Holmes himself and earn his respect as a WorthyOpponent. Add in the fact that she's also one of the few notable women in the stories, and the result is that she's an extremely popular character to include in adaptations.
* Mrs. Hudson, Holmes's long-suffering landlady.
* Mary Watson (née Morstan), Watson's fiancée and later wife.
* The Baker Street Irregulars, a gang of street children who gather information for Holmes.
A final note: as one of the oldest continuous franchises in existence (there have been over 230 versions of Holmes in film, television, stage, radio, and even video games; not to mention the seemingly endless literary pastiches by numerous other authors), it stands to reason that it also has a ''very'' extensive fandom, and there's a very compelling argument that, even more so than ''Franchise/StarTrek'', Holmes and the works about him laid the groundwork for what a high-interest, high-engagement fandom of a [[LongRunner long-running]] media franchise would be in the 20th century and beyond (for good and ill). For many {{Fanfic Trope|s}} and Audience Reaction examples, it happened in the Sherlock Holmes fandom first. Following the entry into the public domain of the final anthology in 2023, this number will only increase further.
----
!! Sherlock Holmes canon by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle:
[[caption-width-right:310:[[CharacterCatchphrase "The game's afoot!"]]]]
->''"Here dwell together still two men of note\\
Who never lived and so can never die:\\
How very near they seem, yet how remote\\
That age before the world went all awry.\\
But still, the game's afoot for those with ears\\
Attuned to catch the distant view-halloo:\\
England is England yet, for all our fears—\\
Only those things the heart '''believes''' are true.\\\
A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane\\
As night descends upon this fabled street:\\
A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,\\
The ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.\\
Here, though the world explode, these two survive,\\
And it is always eighteen ninety-five."''
-->-- '''Vincent Starrett''', "221B"
'''[[TropeCodifier The]]''' GreatDetective. As {{Dracula}} is to vampires and Franchise/{{Superman}} is to superheroes, so Sherlock Holmes is to detectives.
Created by Creator/SirArthurConanDoyle, Sherlock Holmes is a fictional PrivateDetective (or, Consulting Detective, [[InsistentTerminology the term he preferred]]), an analytical genius with generally unrivaled deductive powers (and a [[NoSocialSkills certain disregard of social norms]] [[note]]Though various adaptations tend to overplay this; in the stories, he can occasionally be TheSocialExpert[[/note]]). The original version lived in VictorianLondon, at 221B Baker Street.
Holmes was assisted by his trusty {{sidekick}}, [[TheWatson Doctor John Watson]], an ex-army surgeon with an injured limb. Watson also served as CharacterNarrator: the majority of Holmes's adventures were told via the FramingDevice of Watson's journals, with only four exceptions: ''His Last Bow'' and ''The Mazarin Stone'' are both told in the third person, whilst ''The Blanched Soldier'' and ''The Lion's Mane'' are both narrated by Holmes himself, and don't feature Watson at all.
Holmes had a number of well-known {{catch phrase}}s: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth", "The game's afoot" (itself a quote from Creator/{{Shakespeare}}'s ''Theatre/HenryV''), "ThePlotThickens", and, most famously, "Elementary, my dear Watson" (which Holmes [[BeamMeUpScotty never actually said]] in any of Doyle's stories).
Doyle admitted that he [[OlderThanTheyThink based the character of Holmes]] on Dr. Joseph Bell, one of his professors from University, and Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's Literature/CAugusteDupin. This is lampshaded in a rather blunt statement made by Holmes within the story in which he is originally introduced ("Literature/AStudyInScarlet"), "Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine." (In later stories, Holmes isn't above performing this precise feat on Watson, to show that he's perfectly capable of doing it; he just considers it flashy, rather than genuinely useful.)
Throughout the stories, only one person ever refers to Holmes as "Sherlock", and that's his brother. Nearly everyone else, even Watson, calls him "Holmes" or "''Mister'' Holmes". This is normal for Victorian and Edwardian England; at the time, men would only use a first name to address family members, romantic partners (and you had to be all-but-engaged), junior servants, or children[[note]]women ''might'' use first names alone for each other, but only if they were the closest of friends -- e.g. [[Literature/PrideAndPrejudice Elizabeth Bennet and Charlotte Lucas]][[/note]]. One minor character in "The Sign of Four" refers to him as "Mister Sherlock", which, in context, implied that he'd known Holmes since boyhood. Additionally, this is updated and [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] in the 2011 Ritchie sequel, where Mycroft calls his brother "[[GenderBlenderName Sherly]]" on a number of occasions.
'''Other recurring characters in the Holmes stories were:'''
* Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard. Initially, he was mildly antagonistic as he disapproved of Holmes's interference in police matters, but he later came to respect and rely on the detective. Holmes would usually allow -- or insist -- that Lestrade take full credit for cases that Holmes had solved. (While Holmes worked with other Scotland Yard detectives, several of whom are even recurring characters, Lestrade is the best known.)
* Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's AloofBigBrother. Mycroft's role varied from time to time, but he was generally AlwaysSomeoneBetter to Holmes. Even Sherlock acknowledged that Mycroft's mind was sharper than his own, but his skills were largely wasted due to his [[BrilliantButLazy exceptional sloth]]: almost nothing piqued Mycroft's interest enough to lure him out of the familiar surroundings of his favorite private club. Mycroft was some sort of government functionary, whose official duties were limited, but "In certain cases, Mycroft ''is'' the British Government."
* [[MirrorCharacter Professor James Moriarty]], Holmes's personal EvilCounterpart; a mathematician and criminal mastermind whom Holmes described as "the Napoleon of Crime". Moriarty was killed (as, apparently, was Holmes, though he turned out to be NotQuiteDead) in "The Final Problem", his introductory story, though Conan Doyle went on to reuse Moriarty in ''The Valley of Fear'', a novel whose action takes place before that of "The Final Problem." Moriarty's henchman, Colonel Sebastian Moran, is the villain of "The Adventure of the Empty House", and has been used in many post-Doyle Holmes stories.
* Irene Adler. Though her only appearance in the Doyle canon was "A Scandal in Bohemia", it was a memorable one as she managed to outwit Holmes himself and earn his respect as a WorthyOpponent. Add in the fact that she's also one of the few notable women in the stories, and the result is that she's an extremely popular character to include in adaptations.
* Mrs. Hudson, Holmes's long-suffering landlady.
* Mary Watson (née Morstan), Watson's fiancée and later wife.
* The Baker Street Irregulars, a gang of street children who gather information for Holmes.
A final note: as one of the oldest continuous franchises in existence (there have been over 230 versions of Holmes in film, television, stage, radio, and even video games; not to mention the seemingly endless literary pastiches by numerous other authors), it stands to reason that it also has a ''very'' extensive fandom, and there's a very compelling argument that, even more so than ''Franchise/StarTrek'', Holmes and the works about him laid the groundwork for what a high-interest, high-engagement fandom of a [[LongRunner long-running]] media franchise would be in the 20th century and beyond (for good and ill). For many {{Fanfic Trope|s}} and Audience Reaction examples, it happened in the Sherlock Holmes fandom first. Following the entry into the public domain of the final anthology in 2023, this number will only increase further.
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to:
[[caption-width-right:310:[[CharacterCatchphrase "The game's afoot!"]]]]
->''"Here dwell together still two men of note\\
Who never lived and so can never die:\\
How very near they seem, yet how remote\\
That age before the world went all awry.\\
But still, the game's afoot for those with ears\\
Attuned to catch the distant view-halloo:\\
England is England yet, for all our fears—\\
Only those things the heart '''believes''' are true.\\\
A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane\\
As night descends upon this fabled street:\\
A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,\\
The ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.\\
Here, though the world explode, these two survive,\\
And it is always eighteen ninety-five."''
-->-- '''Vincent Starrett''', "221B"
'''[[TropeCodifier The]]''' GreatDetective. As {{Dracula}} is to vampires and Franchise/{{Superman}} is to superheroes, so Sherlock Holmes is to detectives.
Created by Creator/SirArthurConanDoyle, Sherlock Holmes is a fictional PrivateDetective (or, Consulting Detective, [[InsistentTerminology the term he preferred]]), an analytical genius with generally unrivaled deductive powers (and a [[NoSocialSkills certain disregard of social norms]] [[note]]Though various adaptations tend to overplay this; in the stories, he can occasionally be TheSocialExpert[[/note]]). The original version lived in VictorianLondon, at 221B Baker Street.
Holmes was assisted by his trusty {{sidekick}}, [[TheWatson Doctor John Watson]], an ex-army surgeon with an injured limb. Watson also served as CharacterNarrator: the majority of Holmes's adventures were told via the FramingDevice of Watson's journals, with only four exceptions: ''His Last Bow'' and ''The Mazarin Stone'' are both told in the third person, whilst ''The Blanched Soldier'' and ''The Lion's Mane'' are both narrated by Holmes himself, and don't feature Watson at all.
Holmes had a number of well-known {{catch phrase}}s: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth", "The game's afoot" (itself a quote from Creator/{{Shakespeare}}'s ''Theatre/HenryV''), "ThePlotThickens", and, most famously, "Elementary, my dear Watson" (which Holmes [[BeamMeUpScotty never actually said]] in any of Doyle's stories).
Doyle admitted that he [[OlderThanTheyThink based the character of Holmes]] on Dr. Joseph Bell, one of his professors from University, and Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's Literature/CAugusteDupin. This is lampshaded in a rather blunt statement made by Holmes within the story in which he is originally introduced ("Literature/AStudyInScarlet"), "Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine." (In later stories, Holmes isn't above performing this precise feat on Watson, to show that he's perfectly capable of doing it; he just considers it flashy, rather than genuinely useful.)
Throughout the stories, only one person ever refers to Holmes as "Sherlock", and that's his brother. Nearly everyone else, even Watson, calls him "Holmes" or "''Mister'' Holmes". This is normal for Victorian and Edwardian England; at the time, men would only use a first name to address family members, romantic partners (and you had to be all-but-engaged), junior servants, or children[[note]]women ''might'' use first names alone for each other, but only if they were the closest of friends -- e.g. [[Literature/PrideAndPrejudice Elizabeth Bennet and Charlotte Lucas]][[/note]]. One minor character in "The Sign of Four" refers to him as "Mister Sherlock", which, in context, implied that he'd known Holmes since boyhood. Additionally, this is updated and [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] in the 2011 Ritchie sequel, where Mycroft calls his brother "[[GenderBlenderName Sherly]]" on a number of occasions.
'''Other recurring characters in the Holmes stories were:'''
* Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard. Initially, he was mildly antagonistic as he disapproved of Holmes's interference in police matters, but he later came to respect and rely on the detective. Holmes would usually allow -- or insist -- that Lestrade take full credit for cases that Holmes had solved. (While Holmes worked with other Scotland Yard detectives, several of whom are even recurring characters, Lestrade is the best known.)
* Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's AloofBigBrother. Mycroft's role varied from time to time, but he was generally AlwaysSomeoneBetter to Holmes. Even Sherlock acknowledged that Mycroft's mind was sharper than his own, but his skills were largely wasted due to his [[BrilliantButLazy exceptional sloth]]: almost nothing piqued Mycroft's interest enough to lure him out of the familiar surroundings of his favorite private club. Mycroft was some sort of government functionary, whose official duties were limited, but "In certain cases, Mycroft ''is'' the British Government."
* [[MirrorCharacter Professor James Moriarty]], Holmes's personal EvilCounterpart; a mathematician and criminal mastermind whom Holmes described as "the Napoleon of Crime". Moriarty was killed (as, apparently, was Holmes, though he turned out to be NotQuiteDead) in "The Final Problem", his introductory story, though Conan Doyle went on to reuse Moriarty in ''The Valley of Fear'', a novel whose action takes place before that of "The Final Problem." Moriarty's henchman, Colonel Sebastian Moran, is the villain of "The Adventure of the Empty House", and has been used in many post-Doyle Holmes stories.
* Irene Adler. Though her only appearance in the Doyle canon was "A Scandal in Bohemia", it was a memorable one as she managed to outwit Holmes himself and earn his respect as a WorthyOpponent. Add in the fact that she's also one of the few notable women in the stories, and the result is that she's an extremely popular character to include in adaptations.
* Mrs. Hudson, Holmes's long-suffering landlady.
* Mary Watson (née Morstan), Watson's fiancée and later wife.
* The Baker Street Irregulars, a gang of street children who gather information for Holmes.
A final note: as one of the oldest continuous franchises in existence (there have been over 230 versions of Holmes in film, television, stage, radio, and even video games; not to mention the seemingly endless literary pastiches by numerous other authors), it stands to reason that it also has a ''very'' extensive fandom, and there's a very compelling argument that, even more so than ''Franchise/StarTrek'', Holmes and the works about him laid the groundwork for what a high-interest, high-engagement fandom of a [[LongRunner long-running]] media franchise would be in the 20th century and beyond (for good and ill). For many {{Fanfic Trope|s}} and Audience Reaction examples, it happened in the Sherlock Holmes fandom first. Following the entry into the public domain of the final anthology in 2023, this number will only increase further.
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* '''''Literature/SherlockHolmes''''': The original book series and its associated tropes.
[[AC:Novels]]
* ''Literature/AStudyInScarlet'' (1887)
* ''Literature/TheSignOfTheFour'' (1890)
* ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' (1902)
* ''Literature/TheValleyOfFear'' (1915)
[[AC:Anthologies]]
* ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' (1892)
* ''The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'' (1894)
* ''The Return of Sherlock Holmes'' (1905)
* ''His Last Bow'' (1917)
* ''The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes'' (1927)
[[/index]]
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!! Sherlock Holmes media:
[[index]]
[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Anime/SherlockHound'', an {{anime}} adaptation that recast the characters as {{Funny Animal}}s and aired in 1984 and 1985.
* ''Anime/CaseFileNoTwoTwoOneKabukicho'' is a modernized version set in Shinjuku, Japan. This version of Holmes is a fan of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakugo rakugo]] and explains his findings on the case in this manner.
* ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'' focuses on Holmes' archnemesis, James Moriarty, who is actually composed of three brothers sharing the same name. This version of Moriarty wants to destroy the British noble class.
* ''Anime/VampireHolmes'': An anime where Holmes is a vampire, as opposed to a detective.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/BakerStreet''
* Franchise/{{Batman}} meets Sherlock Holmes in ''Detective Comics'' #572, the 50th anniversary. In it, Batman travels to London to foil a plot by a descendant of Moriarty based on a previously untold adventure of Holmes. At the end of the adventure, the Dark Knight, and his allies encounter the ancient (but still very much alive) Sherlock.
* ''Franchise/XMen'':
** ''Deadpool Killustrated'', a sequel to ''Comicbook/DeadpoolKillsTheMarvelUniverse'', has Sherlock Holmes confronting Deadpool, who is killing every famous literary character in the Ideaverse. He even forms his own Avengers team consisting of his partner Dr. Watson, Hua Mulan, Beowulf and Natty Bumppo.
** In the Marvel Universe itself, it was frequently implied -- and later ''ComicBook/ImmortalXMen'' explicitly confirmed the connection -- that Destiny, whose real name is "Irene Adler", was in fact ''the'' Irene Adler and that [[SamusIsAGirl her lover Mystique was herself Holmes]].
* ''ComicBook/KidSherlock''
* In ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', Sherlock Holmes only appears once in a flashback where he had his confrontation with Moriarty in Reichenbach Falls. He is also possibly a former member of the League where [[https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4342143033_46867d3f10_b.jpg the League's symbol is found on his silver cigar case]]. Like in the original canon, Sherlock fakes his death and retires to Sussex where he is a beekeeper. In 1904, Mina Murray finds him and asks him to be the League's adviser but Sherlock rejects the offer. However, his older brother, Mycroft Holmes, was the director of the League called "M". The same goes with [[spoiler:Moriarty]] who was Mycroft's predecessor and has a descendent in the 1950's.
* ''ComicBook/{{Moriarty}}''
* ''ComicBook/SherlockHolmesAndTheHorrorOfFrankenstein''
* ''ComicBook/WatsonAndHolmes''
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fan Fiction]]
A common urban legend is that Sherlock Holmes fanfics were so common as to make the writers of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' believe that the character, as well as his nemesis Professor Moriarty, were in the public domain when they made the episode "Elementary, My Dear Data", only to receive an angry letter from the Doyle estate. This is, unfortunately, not supported by the facts, but it makes a good story -- students of urban legends will, of course, recognize some slight resemblance between this and the Neiman-Marcus Red Velvet Cake legend.
Sherlock Holmes was arguably one of the first franchises in the modern era to become almost as famous for its fanfiction as for its fiction. Holmes captured the imagination of many writers and spawned a considerable amount of unauthorized sequels or guest appearances -- especially across the Atlantic, as the state of international copyright enforcement was largely nonexistent at the time. According to Victorian literature expert Jess Nevins, it was fairly common for penny-dreadful writers to write stories in which Sherlock Holmes is immediately murdered and a plucky young protagonist has to figure out who did it. Also, stories of the French character Literature/ArseneLupin began as a Holmes copycat, but subsequently featured a renamed (by order of Conan Doyle's lawyers) version of Holmes himself.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''. Creator/{{Disney}}'s adaptation of ''Literature/BasilOfBakerStreet''. The mice world of England has its own Sherlock Holmes, Basil that is, who lives inside the wall of Sherlock's own house in Baker Street.
* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockGnomes''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryMeetSherlockHolmes''. And not only do the famed cat and mouse, but so do Droopy, Spike, Tyke, and Butch, in grand over-the-top style.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
[[AC:Crime/Mystery Films]]
* ''Film/SherlockHolmes1922'', a.k.a ''Moriarty'', adapted from the play, ''Theatre/SherlockHolmes''.
* ''Film/TheSleepingCardinal'' (1931)
* ''Film/SherlockHolmes1932''
* ''Film/TheSignOfFourSherlockHolmesGreatestCase'' (1932)
* ''Film/AStudyInScarlet'' (1933)
* ''Film/MurderAtTheBaskervilles'' (1937)
* 20th Century Fox films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce:
** ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' (1939)
** ''Film/{{The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes|1939}}'' (1939)
* Universal movies starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce:
** ''Film/TheBakerStreetDozen'' (1942-1946)
* ''Film/SherlockHolmesAndTheDeadlyNecklace'' (1962)
* ''Film/AStudyInTerror'' (1965)
* ''Film/ThePrivateLifeOfSherlockHolmes'' (1970)
* ''Film/SherlockHolmesInNewYork'' (1976)
* ''Film/MurderByDecree'' (1979)
* ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles1983''
* ''Film/YoungSherlockHolmes'' (1985)
* ''Film/NineteenNinetyFourBakerStreetSherlockHolmesReturns'' (1993)
* ''Film/SherlockCaseOfEvil'' (2002)
* ''Film/SherlockHolmesAndTheCaseOfTheSilkStocking'' (2004)
* Warner Bros. films starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law:
** ''Film/{{Sherlock Holmes|2009}}'' (2009)
** ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'' (2011)
* ''Film/SirArthurConanDoylesSherlockHolmes'' (2010): TheMockbuster from Creator/TheAsylum.
* ''Film/MrHolmes'' (2015)
* ''Film/TheReturnOfSherlockHolmes'' (2016)
* ''Film/EnolaHolmes'' (2020)
** ''Film/EnolaHolmes2'' (2022)
[[AC:Comedy/Parody Films]]
* ''Film/{{They Might Be Giants|1971}}'' (1971)
* ''Film/TheAdventureOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother'' (1975)
* ''Film/WithoutAClue'' (1988)
* ''Film/HolmesAndWatson'' (2018)
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Literature (post-Conan Doyle)]]
* ''Literature/TheAngelOfTheCrows''
* ''Literature/AriaTheScarletAmmo'' features one of the protagonists, Aria H. Kanzaki, as the great-granddaughter of Sherlock Holmes. Then in Volume 5, [[spoiler:Sherlock himself made his appearance as one of the antagonists]].
* ''Literature/BasilOfBakerStreet''
* ''Literature/TheCaseOfDeathAndHoney''
* ''Literature/DrJekyllAndMrHolmes''
* ''Literature/TheEmpireOfCorpses'' has Watson as the main character and still a medical student. In this story, he is tasked by the British government to retrieve Victor Frankenstein's notes which are the key to obtaining the souls of the dead.
* ''Literature/EnolaHolmes''
* ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheDurbervilles''
* ''Literature/TheHouseOfSilk''
* ''Literature/TheInfernalDevice'' and sequel books focused on Professor Moriarty by Creator/MichaelKurland.
* ''Literature/TheItalianSecretary''
* ''Literature/LockAndMori''
* The fanfiction and published pastiches of Creator/MarciaWilson.
* ''Literature/MaryRussell''
* ''Literature/{{Moriarty}}''
* ''Literature/ProfessorMoriartySeries''
* ''Literature/TheSevenPercentSolution''
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmesAndDoctorWasNot'' - An anthology of {{Elseworlds}} stories where Holmes is paired with a doctor other than Watson.
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmesOfBakerStreet''
* ''Literature/TheSherlockHolmesStoriesOfEdwardDHoch''
* ''Sherlock Holmes: The Game's Afoot'' - A compilation of short stories written by multiple authors
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmesVsDracula''
* ''Literature/TheSherlockian''
* ''Literature/SherlockInLove''
* ''Literature/SolarPons''
* ''Literature/AStudyInEmerald''
* ''Literature/AStudyInCharlotte''
* ''Literature/UndeadGirlMurderFarce'': Alongside other VictorianLondon characters, Holmes and Watson appear and play a major role in the second arc. Moriarty serves as the novels' overarching BigBad.
* ''Literature/YoungSherlockHolmes''
* ''Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota'' series places Sherlock and Watson in Minnesota, working with [[RailroadBaron James J. Hill]] to solve crimes. Many historic characters such as [[UsefulNotes/JohnWilkesBooth Boston Corbett]] and incidents are included.
[[/index]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* Holmes first appeared on television in 1937.
* ''Sherlock Holmes'' (1951), the first regular TV series based on Holmes' exploits, airing on the BBC with Alan Wheatley as Holmes and Raymond Francis as Watson.
* ''Sherlock Holmes'' (1954), a syndicated TV series filmed in France and starring Ronald Howard and Howard Marion-Crawford as Holmes and Watson.
* ''Sherlock Holmes'' (1964), a series of adaptations in 1964-65 and 1968 starring Douglas Wilmer and later Creator/PeterCushing as Holmes and Creator/NigelStock as Watson.
* ''Series/TheRivalsOfSherlockHolmes'' (1971, 1973) mentions Holmes by name in the title but is actually an anthology of ''other'' fictional detectives of the same period.
* ''The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It'' (1977), a comedic TV special starring Creator/JohnCleese as Holmes' grandson Arthur Sherlock Holmes. Creator/ArthurLowe played Dr. William Watson, the original doctor's grandson.
* ''Series/FantasyIsland'' had at least one story in which a guest wanted to be/meet the World's Greatest Detective.
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* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmesAndDoctorWatson'' (1979-1983). A [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet]] series in Russian language notable for ''not'' [[{{Flanderization}} flanderizing]] Watson into an idiot, being a generally faithful AdaptationDistillation and for the fact that the actor playing Holmes got an Order of the British Empire for his portrayal (surprisingly for a Soviet citizen). It's also provided fodder for a lot of [[RussianHumor Russian jokes]] (but then again, what doesn't?).
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* ''Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson'' (1979-1980), a 24-part series with Geoffrey Whitehead and Donald Pickering as Holmes and Watson. The series' producer, Sheldon Reynolds, also produced the Ronald Howard version.
* ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (BBC, 1982), with Creator/TomBaker starred as the Great Detective. He claimed that the BBC apologised for both the production and his performance.
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* ''Series/SherlockHolmes'' (1984-1994), produced by Granada Television (ITV), starring Creator/JeremyBrett, David Burke, and Edward Hardwicke. Generally considered to be most faithful to Conan Doyle's original vision of the character. Series one and two ran under then name ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'', three and four ''The Return of Sherlock Holmes'', five ''The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes'', and six ''The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes''. Five feature-length episodes were made and released between series, two based on the novels ''The Sign of Four'' and ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'', three based on short stories turned into AdaptationExpansion.
* ''Sherlock Holmes: The Golden Years'' was a duology of miniseries featuring Creator/ChristopherLee as the fifty-six-year-old Holmes and Creator/PatrickMacnee as the fifty-eight-year-old Watson. The two miniseries included ''Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady'' and ''Incident at Victoria Falls'' and featured appearances by historical domain characters such as Sigmund Freud, Elliot Ness, Lillie Langtry, Theodore Roosevelt and, an appearance by A. J. Raffles, the famed creation of Doyle's brother-in-law E. W. Hornung.
* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfShirleyHolmes'' (1997-2000) was a Canadian series about the great-grandniece of Sherlock Holmes solving crimes.
* ''[[Series/MurderRooms Murder Rooms: The Dark Origins of Sherlock Holmes]]'' is a 2000 BBC series which featured not Holmes and Watson, but instead had the young Arthur Conan Doyle himself in the [[TheWatson Watson role]] and expounded on the theory that the character of Holmes was a thinly-veiled stand-in for one of Doyle's medical school teachers, Professor Joseph Bell.
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' (2010-2017), a BBC series. Created by Creator/StevenMoffat and Creator/MarkGatiss, the series stars Creator/BenedictCumberbatch as Sherlock and Creator/MartinFreeman as Watson in a 21st-century SettingUpdate of the original stories. The show has been a critical and commercial smash hit both in the UK and abroad and cleaned up at the 2011 UsefulNotes/{{BAFTA}}s, including wins for Best Supporting Actor (Freeman) and Best Drama Series.
* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' (2012-2017), Creator/{{CBS}} series starring Creator/JonnyLeeMiller as Holmes and Creator/LucyLiu as [[GenderFlip Joan Watson]]. Sherlock goes to UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity after [[TraumaCongaLine becoming a heroin addict after a serious trauma]] while in London and meets Joan Watson, a sober companion hired by his father to help him in the post-rehab life. The main focus of the show is the growing relationship between Holmes and Watson as they solve cases together and works as a deconstruction of TheWatson and the {{Sidekick}} tropes. Joan Watson is one of the protagonists, an aspiring consultant detective (ex-sober companion and ex-surgeon) and her insights are crucial to the story arc.
* ''Series/MissSherlock'' (2018), a GenderFlip version set in modern Japan produced by HBO Asia. Watson is depicted as "Wato Tachibana," a surgeon returning from a volunteer mission in Syria. Unlike most versions, Wato and Miss Sherlock take an immediate dislike to each other for their opposing personalities and the two only become roommates at the prompting of Sherlock's brother and Wato only joins Sherlock's cases to try and [[DefrostingIceQueen curb Sherlock's more unpleasant character traits.]]
* ''Sherlock in Russia'' (also known as ''Sherlock: The Russian Chronicles''), a 2020 Russian series, has Holmes going to St. Petersburg, Russia to capture UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.
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* ''Series/TheIrregulars'', a 2021 Netflix-original series set in the Victorian era, follows [[BakerStreetRegular a group of street urchins]] who are hired by Holmes and Watson to solve supernatural cases.
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* An episode of ''The Father Dowling Mysteries'' had the good Father doubting his detecting skills when the police arrest the wrong man on his advice. This causes him to conjure up an image of his hero Holmes as a consulting detective to help him solve the case.
* The 1985 television PilotMovie ''The Return of Sherlock Holmes'' had Michael Pennington as the great detective, thawed out in modern times by a female descendant of Watson.
* ''Sherlock Holmes'', a 2013 Russian 8-part TV series created by Andrey Kavun and starring Igor Petrenko as Sherlock Holmes and Andrey Panin as Watson. Subvert the original stories by forcing Watson to over-romanticise actual events that happen in the series because Watson's editor finds real life boring.
* And a large number of made-for-TV-movies, starring such actors as Creator/TomBaker, Creator/LarryHagman, Creator/RogerMoore, Creator/RichardRoxburgh, Creator/RupertEverett, and Creator/MattFrewer.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' featured one of the franchise's characters, Professor James Moriarty, as an antagonist for two episodes. Due to some [[PhlebotinumBreakdown unexpected glitch in the Holodeck]], one of the characters becomes self-aware, realizing that he is a hologram trapped in a simulation. By his second appearance, he states that he is no longer the Moriarty of the books, however, having grown from that starting point due to his experiences on the ''Enterprise''.
* ''Sherlock: Untold Stories,'' a [[Main/JapaneseMedia Japanese]] series [[Main/SettingUpdate set in 2019]] UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}}, following the adventures of Shishio Homare (a freelance crime consultant) and Junichi Wakamiya (a psychiatrist) as they partner up to solve crimes.
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[[folder:Radio and Audio]]
* ''Radio/SherlockHolmesBBCRadio'' (1989 to 1998) starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson. This production is notable for adapting every novel and short story with the same pair of actors playing Holmes and Watson. Merrison's performance has some marked similarities to Brett's. It was so popular that a series of pastiches called ''The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' was commissioned which ran for four seasons. Merrison reprised his role as Holmes, but since Michael Willimas had passed away, Andrew Sachs (of Series/FawltyTowers fame) replaced him as Watson.
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* William Gillette, famous for playing Holmes on stage also played in two separate radio plays. The first was an adaptation of "The Speckled Band" and the second was an adaption of his famous play for ''Radio/LuxRadioTheatre''. Sadly both performances have been lost to time.
* Creator/OrsonWelles played Holmes in adaptation of Gillette's melodrama in an episode of his famous ''Radio/TheMercuryTheatreOnTheAir''.
* After the success of ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' and ''Film/{{The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes|1939}}'', Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce reprised their famous film roles for ''Radio/TheNewAdventuresOfSherlockHolmes'', which despite the title was a mix of adaptations of Conan Doyle's stories and new pastiches. Several are available here [[http://www.archive.org/details/HQSherlockRathboneTCS]])
* [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Radio]] has done numerous Holmes dramas over the years. Amongst the most famous are:
** ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' (1954-55), a 16 episode series starring Sir Creator/JohnGielgud as Holmes and Sir Creator/RalphRichardson as Watson. The show was co-produced with ABC Radio which meant that Creator/OrsonWelles guest-starred as Professor Moriarty.
** Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley played Holmes and Watson in over 80 different dramas from 1952 to 1969.
* Blackstone Audio's The Hollywood Theatre of the Ear did a boxset called ''Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Theater'' which featured Creator/MartinJarvis as Holmes and Kristoffer Tabori as Watson. It featured two classic stage adaptions of Holmes: William Gillette's ''Sherlock Holmes'', which also featured Creator/TonyJay as Professor Moriarty, Doyle's own adaption of ''The Speckled Band'', and an original parody by Yuri Rasovsky entitled ''Ghastly Double Murder in Famed Detective's Flat''.
* Creator/BigFinish, most famous for their extensive range of ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audio plays]], have been producing a series of Sherlock Holmes dramas. Besides the regular series, set between canon stories, one is set during Holmes' elderly years after the passing of Dr. Watson, one is a metafictional tale in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Professor Moriarty conspire against Holmes, and another pits Holmes against UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. The Great Detective is played by Roger Llewellyn (in his old age) and Creator/NicholasBriggs (in the regular episodes). Briggs' Holmes has also met the Creator/BigFinish version of [[AudioPlay/TheConfessionsOfDorianGray Dorian Gray]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresAllConsumingFire the Doctor himself]].
* A very abridged 2017 adaptation of ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' from indie Canadian audio production company Bleak December, with Creator/DerekJacobi as Holmes.
* {{Creator/Amazon}}'s audiobook service Audible, has produced several Holmes-based audio plays in recent years:
** ''Sherlock Holmes: The Voice of Treason'' (2020), an original tale by Creator/GeorgeMann and Cavan Scott, with Nicholas Boulton as Holmes and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as Watson.
** A 2021 adaptation of ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' also by Mann and Scott. Stars Creator/ColinSalmon as Holmes, Creator/StephenFry as Watson and Creator/MeeraSyal as CanonForeigner Mother Greep.
** ''[[Radio/TheDevilsGame Moriarty: The Devil's Game]]'' (2022). A 10-episode scripted podcast by Charles Kindinger depicting Moriarty as an innocent mathematics professor, who becomes a fugitive after being falsely accused of murder. The production stars Creator/DominicMonaghan as Moriarty, Creator/BillyBoyd as Colonel Sebastian Moran and Creator/PhilLamarr as Sherlock Holmes, with Creator/AdamGodley as Dr. Watson, Creator/CurtisArmstrong as Inspector Gregson, Josh Robert Thompson as Inspector Lestrade, and Creator/RebeccaMader as Mary Watson.
** ''The Baker Street Four'' (2023). An adaptation of the graphic novel series by Olivier Legrand, J.B. Djian, and David Etien. Starring Creator/PatersonJoseph as Holmes and Creator/BillNighy as Watson the cat.
* ''Sherlock & Co.,'' released in 2023 by Goalhanger Productions, provides a SettingUpdate to the modern day and reimagines Watson as a true crime podcaster.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
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* ''TabletopGame/SherlockHolmesConsultingDetective''
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/TheSecretOfSherlockHolmes''
* ''Theatre/SherlockHolmes'', 1899 play written by and starring William Gillette. It featured an original plot. Years later, Creator/OrsonWelles would adapt the play for ''The Mercury Radio Theater'' with the explanation that, "It is not enough to say that William Gillette looks like Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes looks ''exactly'' like William Gillette." It was Gillette, and not Doyle, who popularized most of the visual tropes associated with the character to this day such as the deerstalker cap, the distinctive pipe and riding cloak. His iconic attire was originally depicted by Sidney Paget, who illustrated the stories for their initial publication in ''Strand Magazine'', but he only put Holmes in them in appropriate situations: when the story took him out of London, and into the countryside.
* ''Theatre/TheSpeckledBand'' - adapted by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself.
* ''Theatre/TheCruciferOfBlood'' - An adaptation by Paul Giovanni which was based on ''The Sign of Four''. It was made into a TV movie in 1991 featuring Creator/CharltonHeston as Sherlock Holmes (he had played the role previously in an LA production of the play, and Creator/JeremyBrett was his Watson).
* Starting in 1988, Creator/JeremyBrett and his second Watson, Edward Hardwicke, starred in a stage production titled ''Theatre/TheSecretOfSherlockHolmes''. It was written by Jeremy Paul, who scripted many episodes of [[Series/SherlockHolmes the Granada Television series.]]
* Charles Marowitz's black comedy ''Sherlock's Last Case,'' in which Watson has been so DrivenToMadness by Holmes' nastiness that he tries to murder him. [[spoiler: That goes so badly that poor Watson is DrivenToSuicide instead.]]
* There have been several Holmes musicals over the years, including:
** ''Baker Street'' (1965, music by Marian Grudeff, Raymond Jessel and Jerry Bock, lyrics by Grudeff, Jessel and Sheldon Harnick, book by Jerome Coopersmith)
** ''Sherlock Holmes: The Musical'' aka ''The Revenge of Sherlock Holmes'' (1988, music and lyrics by Creator/LeslieBricusse)
** ''Sherlock: The Musical'' (2022, music and lyrics by Denning Burton, book by Burton and Stefan van de Graaff)
** ''Sherlock Holmes and the Poisonwood'' (2024, music by Ben Glasstone, book by P Burton-Morgan, lyrics by Burton-Morgan and Glasstone)
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* Three Sherlock Holmes games were released on the Famicom, but none of them outside Japan:
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesHakushakuReijouYuukaiJiken'' (1986) ("The Case of the Kidnapped Countess"), an action-adventure game which wasn't received well.
** ''VideoGame/MeitanteiHolmesKiriNoLondonSatsujinJiken'' (1988) ("The Great Detective Holmes: The Murder Case in Foggy London") an adventure game.
** ''MeitanteiHolmesMKaraNoChousenjou'' (1989) ("The Great Detective Holmes: M's Challenge"), an adventure game.
* ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesConsultingDetective'' was released for PC, [=TurboDuo=], CTDV and Sega CD in the early '90s, as part of the FullMotionVideo craze that gripped gaming after the introduction of the CD-ROM format.
* ''VideoGame/{{Sherlock|1984}}'' (1984): An InteractiveFiction game.
* ''VideoGame/SherlockTheRiddleOfTheCrownJewels'' (1988): One of the last InteractiveFiction games produced by Creator/{{Infocom}}, in which the player takes the role of Watson.
* ''VideoGame/TheLostFilesOfSherlockHolmes'', published by Creator/ElectronicArts, sadly limited to two adventures (''The Case of the Serrated Scalpel'' and ''The Case of the Rose Tattoo'') were released in the 1990s to portray two Holmes cases [[{{Kayfabe}} considered "too hot to show"]].
* Since 2002, the company Frogwares has been developing a series of Sherlock Holmes puzzle/adventure games based on the original books as well as including various crossovers with other series. As of 2021, the main titles in the series are:
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesTheMysteryOfTheMummy''
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesSecretOfTheSilverEarring''
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesTheAwakened'' -- a crossover with the Franchise/CthulhuMythos
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesVersusArseneLupin'' -- a crossover with Maurice Leblanc's Arsène Lupin stories, themselves a parody of Sherlock Holmes mysteries
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesVersusJackTheRipper''
** ''VideoGame/TheTestamentOfSherlockHolmes''
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesCrimesAndPunishments''
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesTheDevilsDaughter''
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesChapterOne'' -- Holmes' origin story prior to meeting Watson
* ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'' [[note]]Applies only to the Japanese version. The Western version [[WritingAroundTrademarks altered the names of all the Holmes-related elements]] due to not being a PublicDomainCharacter in all countries.[[/note]]
* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' is an unusual example - while he's not ''the'' focus character, Holmes is introduced as a major character in the game's sixth story chapter and joins the main cast, regardless of the player's status in obtaining him as a playable Ruler-class "Servant" party member, in the course of the ''Epic of Remnant'' expansion and the Cosmos in the Lostbelt arc. [[spoiler:James Moriarty makes a similar debut in the first ''[=EoR=]'' chapter as an Archer-class Servant and makes further appearances later on.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Crimesight}}'' (2022): An online co-op mystery simulation game by Creator/{{Konami}} where four players get to play as an A.I. based on Sherlock, Watson, Irene and Moriarty.
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* While the actual storyline itself never came to fruition, Erin confirms that Sherlock Holmes is part of the ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow'' canon: Watson had wrote a book about a time when he and Sherlock crossed paths with [[Manga/PetShopOfHorrors Count D]], but he shelved it because he knew no one would believe it due to the more supernatural elements and he wanted to be taken seriously as an author. However, the manuscript survived in some fashion, as Integra had been told it as a bedtime story.
* ''Webcomic/SignsOfThree'', a webcomic adaptation updating the stories to contemporary times, adding more diversity and LGBT themes whilst simultaneously putting a modern twist on things. Currently on one finished book, ''A Study of Scarlett'' (''Literature/AStudyInScarlet''), with the second, ''Fangs of Sussex'' (''The Sussex Vampire'') having just begun.
* ''Webcomic/WhateverRemains'' is a webcomic adaptation set in the 1920s.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'', a 1999 AnimatedAdaptation of Holmes RecycledINSPACE!
* "[[Recap/BraveStarrS1E53SherlockHolmesInThe23rdCenturyPart1 Sherlock Holmes]] [[Recap/BraveStarrS1E54SherlockHolmesInThe23rdCenturyPart2 in the 23rd Century]]", a two-part episode of the 1987 series ''WesternAnimation/BraveStarr''
* Holmes and Watson appeared in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''. During their time, Jason Blood tried (and failed) to bring Batman to that time but Holmes completed the spell. Holmes was soon able to deduce Batman must have been born to some doctor or at least a wealthy man.
* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockYack'' is another AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation.
* Sherlock, Watson and Lestrade appeared in few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/OrsonAndOlivia''.
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A number of films were made (Holmes has appeared in more films than any other single fictional character), some of which took a number of liberties with the story:
* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_Baffled Sherlock Holmes Baffled]]'', a 1900 silent film which lasts 30 seconds. Considered the earliest known detective movie due to Holmes's presence, even though the film was probably named so just for sake of using a famous name, and the character in the short has little to do with Holmes and doesn't do any detective work.
* The 1916 silent film ''Sherlock Holmes'', starring William Gillette in the title role.
* Creator/BasilRathbone and Nigel Bruce starred as Holmes and Watson in a popular series of film adaptations in the 1930s and 1940s. The first two ("The Hound of the Baskervilles" and "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes") were produced by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox and were based on, respectively, the Doyle novel and the William Gillette play; both were set in the Victorian era. The others, produced by Creator/{{Universal}}, moved the setting to the 1940s. Initially, Holmes and Watson fought ThoseWackyNazis, but they later went up against more conventional crooks. Bruce's portrayal of Watson as a bumbling incompetent rather than the original ladykilling man of action helped begin a long chain of similar adaptations.
* The 1932 Czech comedy Lelíček ve službách Sherlocka Holmese (Lelíček in the service of Sherlock Homes) combines Sherlock Holmes with Literature/ThePrisonerOfZenda. Holmes is hired by the Prime Minister of Portorico to find a double for their weak and cowardly king Fernando XXIII. Holmes finds Lelíček, a streetwise dept-plagued man from Prague (played by Czech comedy legend Vlasta Burian). Then, while Holmes dismatles a conspiracy against the king, Lelíček manages to survive several attempts at "king's" live and falls in love with the queen.
* In the 1937 German comedy adventure ''Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war'' (The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes), two unsuccessful private detectives (Hans Albers and Heinz Rühmann) decide to drum up interest by dressing up as Holmes and Watson. They are met with great deference everywhere, solve the theft of valuable stamps, but are put on trial for impersonation, where they insist that they told everybody that they ''weren't'' Holmes and Watson. Conan Doyle is shown laughing his head off in the courtroom audience and mentioning that Holmes and Watson are fictional characters he invented, which means the movie must be set before 1930.
* Film/HammerHorror adapted ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' in 1959 starring Creator/PeterCushing as Holmes, André Morell as Watson and Creator/ChristopherLee as Sir Henry Baskerville. It was supposed to be the first in a series of films, but disappointing box office returns dashed those hopes.
* The 1970 film ''Film/ThePrivateLifeOfSherlockHolmes'', directed by Creator/BillyWilder.
* ''Film/TheAdventureOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother'', released in 1975, was Creator/GeneWilder's directorial debut. It follows Sherlock's (self-proclaimed) smarter younger brother Siegerson, who attempts to thwart Moriarty on his own.
* A deleted scene in the Creator/NeilSimon Detective Movie parody ''Film/MurderByDeath'' features Holmes and Watson showing up late for the gathering. [[EditedForSyndication Edited For Television]] versions of the film generally restore the cameo.
* 1978's ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' starring Creator/DudleyMoore and Creator/PeterCook is one of the ''worst films ever made''. Available to watch on Netflix Watch Instantly, it is a stunningly bad comedy with the entire soundtrack consisting of Moore idly noodling on a piano.
* 1979, ''Film/MurderByDecree'' starring Creator/ChristopherPlummer as Holmes and Creator/JamesMason as (a Non-Flanderized) Watson on UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper case. The basis for the plot was the book ''Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution'' by Stephen Knight, the same book that would be the basis for Creator/AlanMoore's ''Comicbook/FromHell'' some years later. It was seen by some as a DarkerAndEdgier Sherlock Holmes movie but, given the subject matter, it's understandable. This was the second time Holmes and the Ripper met; the first time was in the 1966 movie ''A Study in Terror''.
* In the 1985 Levinson/Spielberg/Columbus movie ''Film/YoungSherlockHolmes'', a teenaged Holmes and Watson meet at a boarding school decades prior to their adult companionship. (Unusual in that it began with a disclaimer explaining that it was a "WhatIf" story.)
* In the 1988 movie ''Film/WithoutAClue'' the Holmes/Watson roles are reversed, with Watson (Creator/BenKingsley) as the real detective and Holmes (Creator/MichaelCaine) as an alcoholic actor hired by Watson as his public front.
* In perhaps the most unusual adaptation, there is the 1971 movie ''Film/{{They Might Be Giants|1971}}'' (from which [[Music/TheyMightBeGiants the band]] took its name), which starred Creator/GeorgeCScott as a man who thought he was Sherlock Holmes, and Joanne Woodward as his psychiatrist, whose name was Watson. The film itself took its name from a line in Don Quixote.
* A 1986 Soviet comedy called ''Film/MyDearlyBelovedDetective''. Not quite an adaptation, since Holmes and Watson are stated to be fictional in-story. However, [[DistaffCounterpart two ladies with the last names of Holmes and Watson decide to enter the business]]...
* The 1998 film ''Film/ZeroEffect'' is a modern-dress US adaptation of "A Scandal in Bohemia", with the Holmes and Watson figures renamed Daryl Zero (Creator/BillPullman) and Steve Arlo (Creator/BenStiller). Despite the name changes, the plot and characters are instantly recognizable.
* 2002 saw an adaptation of ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' which played up Holmes's addiction. It featured Creator/RichardRoxburgh (then best known as the Duke in ''Film/MoulinRouge'') as Holmes and Creator/IanHart (Professor Quirrell in ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone''; he would later reprise the role in ''Silk Stocking'') as Watson, and introduced several changes to the story: Dr. Mortimer was much OlderAndWiser than in the book, his wife is a believer in the supernatural and holds a party that is ''very'' important to the plot, Selden becomes an AscendedExtra, and [[spoiler: Beryl Stapleton is murdered by her husband Roger aka the BigBad.]]
* ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'', a movie directed by Creator/GuyRitchie with Creator/RobertDowneyJr. as Holmes and Creator/JudeLaw as Watson released on Christmas Day. Response to the trailer, [[NeverTrustATrailer which basically strung the comedic moments together]] to make it look more like a spoof than an actual Holmes story, was... controversial... in fandom. The movie received mostly positive reviews, and critics praised Downey Jr's portrayal as the detective (for which he won a Golden Globe) and the chemistry between him and Law. And it was a box-office hit. A sequel to this film, titled ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'', came to theaters in December 2011 with Jared Harris as Professor Moriarty and Creator/StephenFry as Mycroft Holmes.
* Creator/TheAsylum released ''Film/SirArthurConanDoylesSherlockHolmes'' directly to DVD in 2010 to piggyback on the Ritchie film. Starring Ben Syder as Holmes and Gareth David-Lloyd as Watson. It's {{Steampunk}} and involves dinosaurs.
* ''Film/MrHolmes'', a 2015 film based on the novel ''A Slight Trick of the Mind'', follows a 93-year-old Holmes who becomes determined to solve the decades-old mystery that drove him into retirement before his slowly deteriorating mind fails him completely. Creator/IanMcKellen plays Holmes.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Adrian Conan Doyle (son of Arthur Conan Doyle) and Creator/JohnDicksonCarr (Doyle's biographer and friend) wrote a series of short stories called ''The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes'', supposedly the accounts of the cases that Watson mentioned but never made it to the original 56 short stories. Some consider it canon, for being written by Arthur Conan Doyle's son, and treat it as the tenth volume of Sherlock Holmes canon, but many more don't for the obvious fact that it wasn't written or approved by Arthur Conan Doyle (it was written and published after his death) and it was co-written by an unrelated author. Sequels were expected but never produced, mainly because the authors got in a dispute over who wrote what.
* Nicholas Meyer's novel (later adapted to film), ''Literature/TheSevenPercentSolution'' proposed that the Moriarty stories were complete fictions invented by Watson to cover for Holmes's recovery from cocaine addiction. (This was to explain the canon's apparent contradiction of Moriarty dying in the story that ''introduced'' him, yet figuring in other prequel stories.) In the story, Moriarty is revealed as Holmes's childhood maths tutor, whom Holmes had cast as a criminal in his drug-induced delirium. The story ends with a departing Holmes suggesting that Watson explain his absence to the readers by telling them he'd been murdered by his math tutor.
* Laurie R. King's ''Literature/MaryRussell'' series takes place in the 1910s-20s. The title character, a young woman who comes to live on the Sussex Downs after being orphaned in a car accident, meets the retired Holmes there and becomes first his protege and later his wife.
* Robert L. Fish's ridiculously pun-packed Schlock Homes stories...where to begin...
** Some titles of stories: "The Adventure of the Printer's Inc.", "The Adventure of the Spectacled Band" (there is a Holmes adventure of the ''speckled'' band), "The Adventure of the Snared Drummer", "The Adventure of the Perforated Ulster", "The Adventure of the Dog in the Knight", "The Adventure of the Artist's Mottle"
** Watney's first paragraph of "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarters":
--> "My notes for the early part of the year '65 contain several instances of more than passing interest for those who follow the adventures of my friend Mr. Schlock Homes. There was, for example, his brilliant solution to the mysterious gunning down of a retired boilermaker, a case which I find listed as ''The Adventure of the Shot and the Bier''; and there is also reference to the intriguing business of the hitchhiking young actress, noted in my journal as ''The Adventure of the Ingenue's Thumb''." (There's a Holmes adventure of the ''engineer's'' thumb.)
* The ''Literature/EnolaHolmes'' series by Nancy Springer, which depicts the adventures of the much younger sister of Sherlock. On top of each mystery, the overall plot arc is the eventual reconciliation of the Holmes siblings as Enola finds that she is a match for her brother in every way for her age and Sherlock learns to admire his brilliant sister as a professional colleague. It has [[Film/EnolaHolmes a film adaptation]] released on Netflix in 2020, starring Creator/MillieBobbyBrown as the titular main character and Creator/HenryCavill as the great detective himself.
* Creator/MichaelChabon's 2004 novella ''Literature/TheFinalSolution'', in which Holmes (never named directly, but it is clearly him), a 90ish old man living in country retirement as a beekeeper, tries to locate a German Jewish boy's stolen parrot.
* Andrew Lane's ''Literature/YoungSherlockHolmes'' series (not to be confused with the movie of the same name), chronicling a [[TeenGenius teenage Sherlock's]] adventures. These stand to be the only teen novels endorsed by the Doyle Estate.
** As Andy Lane, he'd earlier written ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresAllConsumingFire All-Consuming Fire]]'', a Literature/{{Doctor Who New Adventure|s}} crossing Holmes over with the Doctor, Ace and Benny. It was later adapted by Creator/BigFinish, who also made it a ''de facto'' crossover with their own regular Sherlock Holmes series, mentioned below.
* ''Literature/BasilOfBakerStreet'', later adapted by Creator/{{Disney}} as ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''. A FunnyAnimal version of the mythos, and many a child's first exposure to Sherlock Holmes. Basil's name is an obvious ShoutOut to Creator/BasilRathbone. In the film, Rathbone himself even has a vocal cameo (albeit one well after his death) as Holmes himself.
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmesOfBakerStreet'', a popular tongue-in-cheek "biography" of Sherlock Holmes written in 1962 by W.S. Baring-Gould, has been the source of many interesting theories about Holmes, some of which are often assumed to be canon (even in this very entry). These include the idea that the King of Bohemia was Edward [=VII=]; that Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler became lovers in Montenegro during the time Holmes was hiding from Moran, and that Irene returned to New Jersey to bear his child, a boy later known as Literature/NeroWolfe [[note]]This was actually suggested to him by Creator/RexStout, the writer of the Nero Wolfe novels, but given that Stout once wrote a paper suggesting that Watson was a woman...[[/note]]; that Holmes in his twenties was a stage actor in a company that toured America; that he worked on the UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper case; that Watson had three wives; that Holmes's bee-keeping in later years was intended as a way of producing royal jelly, then thought of as a "fountain of youth"; and that Holmes died in the 1950s after spending the war years - when he would have been roughly 90 years old - fighting Nazis. In ''Film/TheAdventureOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother'', the title character, Siegerson, is named for Baring-Gould's Holmes ''pere''. As a way of freeing up Sherlock and Mycroft for their various occupations while still ensuring they were members of the "right" class, Baring-Gould invented Sherringford, the eldest--and smartest--brother, who stayed home in Yorkshire to take care of the responsibilities of a country squire. Sherringford was Holmes's original name in Doyle's first draft of ''A Study in Scarlet''.
* ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheDurbervilles'' by Creator/KimNewman focuses on Professor Moriarty and his subordinate, Sebastian Moran, as they share a series of adventures that oddly echo Holmes's famous cases and have them meeting [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover numerous other characters from Victorian and Edwardian fiction]]. The last story in the collection, "The Problem of the Final Adventure", retells "The Final Problem" from Moran's point of view.
** Titan Books, Newman's publisher, has an ongoing series of Holmes pastiches.
* ''Trouble in Bugland: A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries'' is Sherlock Holmes in "Bugland," where everyone is an insect. Holmes is Inspector Mantis, a praying mantis, and Watson is Doctor Hopper.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/TimePatrol'', the Victorian era office would like to hire a contemporary detective, but the only one clever enough is probably clever enough to figure out the Time Patrol. Other clues make it clear who this unnamed detective is.
* ''Literature/TheHouseOfSilk'', by Creator/AnthonyHorowitz, follows two crimes that end up closely linked, one where a family is being hounded by an American gang boss and another where Holmes searches for the elusive House of Silk. Notable in that it's the first novel that the Conan Doyle Estate has endorsed.
** Horowitz has since published a follow-up, ''Literature/{{Moriarty}}'', which begins immediately after the encounter at Reichenbach Falls.
* ''The Holmes/Dracula Files'' by Fred Saberhagen, a {{Crossover}} novel that's pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin; Sherlock Holmes meets {{Dracula}}. Also used to explain [[NoodleIncident The Giant Rat of Sumatra]].
* Brazilian TV personality Jô Soares (a veteran TV comedian, now known for his Creator/DavidLetterman-style talk show) wrote a book titled "O Xangô de Baker Street". In that book, Holmes was described as knowing the Portuguese language, which helped him since he went to Brazil to try to figure out the identity of a serial killer. His portrayal in that book had him misinterpret clues. He [[spoiler:failed, which was attributed to his lack of knowledge of how musical notes were known in Brazil. The culprit, whose identity was revealed to the readers, moved to England and was implied to be UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper]].
* ''[[Literature/DustAndShadow Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson]]'', by Lyndsay Faye. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* ''Bert Coules'', the writer who set out to dramatize the entire canon for BBC radio, also wrote 15 dramatizations of his own, available from the BBC as ''The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes''.
* Contained in Creator/StephenKing's short-fiction collection ''Literature/NightmaresAndDreamscapes'' is the Sherlock Holmes pastiche "The Doctor's Case." A shipping magnate has been murdered in what Lestrade describes as "the perfect locked-room mystery"; Holmes and Watson investigate, and the solution takes an unusual and surprising turn.
* Denis O. Smith's ''The Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes'' is twelve new cases from Holmes' early years, in a fair imitation of Doyle's style.
* Creator/MichaelKurland's Moriarty novels, beginning with ''Literature/TheInfernalDevice'', are a PerspectiveFlip in which Moriarty is the protagonist.
* Donald Thomas has published multiple short stories and novella pastiches featuring Holmes and Watson, most recently ''The Execution of Sherlock Holmes and Other New Adventures of the Great Detective.''
* Loren D. Estleman has published crossover novels featuring Holmes meeting up with Literature/{{Dracula}} and [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Jekyll and Hyde.]]
* In the early 2000s, David Pirie wrote three novels featuring Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph Bell as the detectives. Although the novels are self-enclosed, the larger plot arc remains [[OrphanedSeries unfinished.]]
* Michael Dibdin's take on Sherlock Holmes and UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, ''The Last Sherlock Holmes Story.'' [[spoiler: Holmes ''is'' Jack. He's also Moriarty.]]
* Creator/ManlyWadeWellman wrote one short story in which a by-then elderly Holmes and Watson stop a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi agent]] from setting up an invasion of England in 1940. He also wrote a novel in which Sherlock, Watson, and Sherlock's cousin Literature/ProfessorChallenger help to stop [[AlienInvasion the War of the Worlds]]. Rather disliked by some fans for setting up a romance between Holmes and Mrs. Hudson.
* Robert Ryan has three novels and a forthcoming collection of short stories in which the primary detective is Watson, not Holmes. They're set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
* Creator/NeilGaiman's 2003 story ''Literature/AStudyInEmerald'' puts Sherlock Holmes characters in a Franchise/CthulhuMythos setting, where the Earth is ruled by the Great Old Ones.
** Gaiman's other short story ''Literature/TheCaseOfDeathAndHoney'' ties together Sherlock's post-retirement bee-keeping and the canon GenreShift story ''The Adventure Of the Creeping Man'', portraying an elderly Sherlock trying to find a source of eternal youth.
* Bob Garcia's novels (for some reason they don't appear to be translated into English as of 2016, although they are available in a few other languages). A fair deal more horror than canon.
* G. S. Denning's ''Warlock Holmes'' series is an AffectionateParody of the canon, in which Holmes is a CloudCuckooLander wizard [[Really700YearsOld over two centuries old]] whose mind is [[DemonicPossession filled with demons]], Watson is the actual brains of the outfit and (usually) OnlySaneMan, and Lestrade is a vampire.
* The ''Inspector Lestrade'' series by M. J. Trow, portraying him as a skilled detective who is very irritated that John Watson chose to make him look like an idiot to make Holmes look good. The end of the third volume reveals [[spoiler: that during a rest cure in the Swiss Alps, Holmes murdered a certain professor of mathematics under the impression the man was ''Watson''.]]
* ''Two Hundred and Twenty One Baker Streets'' is an anthology of stories re-imagining Holmes in many different times and places, from 17th century Scotland and 1970s New York to contemporary South Africa and a robot-populated far future.
* Keisuke Matsuoka's ''Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Japan'' has Holmes going to Japan after defeating Moriarty in Reichenbach Falls and investigating a scandal that would ruin the fragile relations between the Meiji-era Japan and the Tsarist Russia. He also teams up with Hirobumi Ito, the first Prime Minister of Japan.
* James Lovegrove's ''The Cthulhu Casebooks'' trilogy which is a crossover between Holmes and the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
* Former NBA legend, Creator/KareemAbdulJabbar, wrote a book series about Sherlock's older brother, Mycroft Holmes.
* Michael Hardwick (who had previously adapted one Holmes story for radio and two for television, and written the novelization of the film ''The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'') wrote two Holmes novels, ''The Prisoner of the Devil'' (1979, in which Holmes is called in to investigate the Dreyfuss Affair) and ''The Revenge of the Hound'' (1987, in which Holmes investigates a supposed return of the Hound of the Baskervilles). He later wrote ''The Private Life of Dr. Watson'', Watson's memoirs of his life before meeting Holmes, and Holmes' own memoirs, ''Sherlock Holmes: My Life and Crimes''.
* Leonard Goldberg is writing the ''Daughter of Sherlock Holmes'' series, about the adventures of Joanne Blalock - the illegitimate daughter of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler (the result of an unintended drug-induced one night stand rather than any sort of romance) - and John Watson, Jr in 1914 London.
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[[folder:Notable audiobook readers]]
There have numerous audiobook recordings of both the original canon, and various pastiches. Here is a list of some of the most prolific, notable, or more highly regarded performers:
* Creator/BasilRathbone (Recorded 5 selected Doyle stories for Caedmon Records in the 1960s, subsequently re-released by {{HarperColins}} Audio in 2008)
* Creator/PeterCushing (Recorded ''The Return of Sherlock Holmes'' for the Royal National Institute for the Blind in 1971. Was widely commercially released in 2011 by Cosmic Hobo Productions.)
* Douglas Wilmer (Narrated selected Doyle stories for Penguin Audio in 1997)
* Creator/BenedictCumberbatch (Narrated John Taylor's ''Sherlock Holmes' Rediscovered Railway Mysteries & other stories'' for {{AudioGo}}/BBC Audio)
* {{Creator/Ian McKellen}} (Narrated ''Literature/TheValleyOfFear'' for BBC Audio)
* Creator/ChristopherLee (Narrated ''The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes'' for Harper Audio in the 1990s; re-released in the 2000s)
* Creator/DerekJacobi (Narrated the Doyle canon for {{AudioGo}}, and Creator/AnthonyHorowitz's ''Literature/TheHouseOfSilk'')
* Edward Hardwicke (Narrated selected Doyle stories for CSA Telltapes Ltd./The Audio Partners Publishing Corp; subsequently re-released by {{AudioGo}} and BBC Audio over the years)
* Creator/StephenFry (Narrated the entire Doyle canon for Audible, also wrote and read introductions for each story)
* Creator/TimCurry (Narrated Creator/StephenKing's ''The Doctor's Case'')
* Simon Vance (Narrated the Doyle canon, and numerous pastiches including Lyndsay Faye's ''Literature/DustAndShadow'')
* David Timson (Narrated the complete Doyle canon for Naxos Audio)
* John Telfer (Narrated Donald Thomas's pastiches)
* Simon Prebble
* Walter Covell
* Jenny Sterlin (Narrated Laurie R. King's Literature/MaryRussell series)
* Katherine Kellgren (Narrated Nancy Springer's Literature/EnolaHolmes series)
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[[AC:Novels]]
* ''Literature/AStudyInScarlet'' (1887)
* ''Literature/TheSignOfTheFour'' (1890)
* ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' (1902)
* ''Literature/TheValleyOfFear'' (1915)
[[AC:Anthologies]]
* ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' (1892)
* ''The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'' (1894)
* ''The Return of Sherlock Holmes'' (1905)
* ''His Last Bow'' (1917)
* ''The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes'' (1927)
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!! Sherlock Holmes media:
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Anime/SherlockHound'', an {{anime}} adaptation that recast the characters as {{Funny Animal}}s and aired in 1984 and 1985.
* ''Anime/CaseFileNoTwoTwoOneKabukicho'' is a modernized version set in Shinjuku, Japan. This version of Holmes is a fan of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakugo rakugo]] and explains his findings on the case in this manner.
* ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'' focuses on Holmes' archnemesis, James Moriarty, who is actually composed of three brothers sharing the same name. This version of Moriarty wants to destroy the British noble class.
* ''Anime/VampireHolmes'': An anime where Holmes is a vampire, as opposed to a detective.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/BakerStreet''
* Franchise/{{Batman}} meets Sherlock Holmes in ''Detective Comics'' #572, the 50th anniversary. In it, Batman travels to London to foil a plot by a descendant of Moriarty based on a previously untold adventure of Holmes. At the end of the adventure, the Dark Knight, and his allies encounter the ancient (but still very much alive) Sherlock.
* ''Franchise/XMen'':
** ''Deadpool Killustrated'', a sequel to ''Comicbook/DeadpoolKillsTheMarvelUniverse'', has Sherlock Holmes confronting Deadpool, who is killing every famous literary character in the Ideaverse. He even forms his own Avengers team consisting of his partner Dr. Watson, Hua Mulan, Beowulf and Natty Bumppo.
** In the Marvel Universe itself, it was frequently implied -- and later ''ComicBook/ImmortalXMen'' explicitly confirmed the connection -- that Destiny, whose real name is "Irene Adler", was in fact ''the'' Irene Adler and that [[SamusIsAGirl her lover Mystique was herself Holmes]].
* ''ComicBook/KidSherlock''
* In ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', Sherlock Holmes only appears once in a flashback where he had his confrontation with Moriarty in Reichenbach Falls. He is also possibly a former member of the League where [[https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4342143033_46867d3f10_b.jpg the League's symbol is found on his silver cigar case]]. Like in the original canon, Sherlock fakes his death and retires to Sussex where he is a beekeeper. In 1904, Mina Murray finds him and asks him to be the League's adviser but Sherlock rejects the offer. However, his older brother, Mycroft Holmes, was the director of the League called "M". The same goes with [[spoiler:Moriarty]] who was Mycroft's predecessor and has a descendent in the 1950's.
* ''ComicBook/{{Moriarty}}''
* ''ComicBook/SherlockHolmesAndTheHorrorOfFrankenstein''
* ''ComicBook/WatsonAndHolmes''
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[[folder:Fan Fiction]]
A common urban legend is that Sherlock Holmes fanfics were so common as to make the writers of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' believe that the character, as well as his nemesis Professor Moriarty, were in the public domain when they made the episode "Elementary, My Dear Data", only to receive an angry letter from the Doyle estate. This is, unfortunately, not supported by the facts, but it makes a good story -- students of urban legends will, of course, recognize some slight resemblance between this and the Neiman-Marcus Red Velvet Cake legend.
Sherlock Holmes was arguably one of the first franchises in the modern era to become almost as famous for its fanfiction as for its fiction. Holmes captured the imagination of many writers and spawned a considerable amount of unauthorized sequels or guest appearances -- especially across the Atlantic, as the state of international copyright enforcement was largely nonexistent at the time. According to Victorian literature expert Jess Nevins, it was fairly common for penny-dreadful writers to write stories in which Sherlock Holmes is immediately murdered and a plucky young protagonist has to figure out who did it. Also, stories of the French character Literature/ArseneLupin began as a Holmes copycat, but subsequently featured a renamed (by order of Conan Doyle's lawyers) version of Holmes himself.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''. Creator/{{Disney}}'s adaptation of ''Literature/BasilOfBakerStreet''. The mice world of England has its own Sherlock Holmes, Basil that is, who lives inside the wall of Sherlock's own house in Baker Street.
* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockGnomes''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryMeetSherlockHolmes''. And not only do the famed cat and mouse, but so do Droopy, Spike, Tyke, and Butch, in grand over-the-top style.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
[[AC:Crime/Mystery Films]]
* ''Film/SherlockHolmes1922'', a.k.a ''Moriarty'', adapted from the play, ''Theatre/SherlockHolmes''.
* ''Film/TheSleepingCardinal'' (1931)
* ''Film/SherlockHolmes1932''
* ''Film/TheSignOfFourSherlockHolmesGreatestCase'' (1932)
* ''Film/AStudyInScarlet'' (1933)
* ''Film/MurderAtTheBaskervilles'' (1937)
* 20th Century Fox films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce:
** ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' (1939)
** ''Film/{{The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes|1939}}'' (1939)
* Universal movies starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce:
** ''Film/TheBakerStreetDozen'' (1942-1946)
* ''Film/SherlockHolmesAndTheDeadlyNecklace'' (1962)
* ''Film/AStudyInTerror'' (1965)
* ''Film/ThePrivateLifeOfSherlockHolmes'' (1970)
* ''Film/SherlockHolmesInNewYork'' (1976)
* ''Film/MurderByDecree'' (1979)
* ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles1983''
* ''Film/YoungSherlockHolmes'' (1985)
* ''Film/NineteenNinetyFourBakerStreetSherlockHolmesReturns'' (1993)
* ''Film/SherlockCaseOfEvil'' (2002)
* ''Film/SherlockHolmesAndTheCaseOfTheSilkStocking'' (2004)
* Warner Bros. films starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law:
** ''Film/{{Sherlock Holmes|2009}}'' (2009)
** ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'' (2011)
* ''Film/SirArthurConanDoylesSherlockHolmes'' (2010): TheMockbuster from Creator/TheAsylum.
* ''Film/MrHolmes'' (2015)
* ''Film/TheReturnOfSherlockHolmes'' (2016)
* ''Film/EnolaHolmes'' (2020)
** ''Film/EnolaHolmes2'' (2022)
[[AC:Comedy/Parody Films]]
* ''Film/{{They Might Be Giants|1971}}'' (1971)
* ''Film/TheAdventureOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother'' (1975)
* ''Film/WithoutAClue'' (1988)
* ''Film/HolmesAndWatson'' (2018)
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[[folder:Literature (post-Conan Doyle)]]
* ''Literature/TheAngelOfTheCrows''
* ''Literature/AriaTheScarletAmmo'' features one of the protagonists, Aria H. Kanzaki, as the great-granddaughter of Sherlock Holmes. Then in Volume 5, [[spoiler:Sherlock himself made his appearance as one of the antagonists]].
* ''Literature/BasilOfBakerStreet''
* ''Literature/TheCaseOfDeathAndHoney''
* ''Literature/DrJekyllAndMrHolmes''
* ''Literature/TheEmpireOfCorpses'' has Watson as the main character and still a medical student. In this story, he is tasked by the British government to retrieve Victor Frankenstein's notes which are the key to obtaining the souls of the dead.
* ''Literature/EnolaHolmes''
* ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheDurbervilles''
* ''Literature/TheHouseOfSilk''
* ''Literature/TheInfernalDevice'' and sequel books focused on Professor Moriarty by Creator/MichaelKurland.
* ''Literature/TheItalianSecretary''
* ''Literature/LockAndMori''
* The fanfiction and published pastiches of Creator/MarciaWilson.
* ''Literature/MaryRussell''
* ''Literature/{{Moriarty}}''
* ''Literature/ProfessorMoriartySeries''
* ''Literature/TheSevenPercentSolution''
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmesAndDoctorWasNot'' - An anthology of {{Elseworlds}} stories where Holmes is paired with a doctor other than Watson.
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmesOfBakerStreet''
* ''Literature/TheSherlockHolmesStoriesOfEdwardDHoch''
* ''Sherlock Holmes: The Game's Afoot'' - A compilation of short stories written by multiple authors
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmesVsDracula''
* ''Literature/TheSherlockian''
* ''Literature/SherlockInLove''
* ''Literature/SolarPons''
* ''Literature/AStudyInEmerald''
* ''Literature/AStudyInCharlotte''
* ''Literature/UndeadGirlMurderFarce'': Alongside other VictorianLondon characters, Holmes and Watson appear and play a major role in the second arc. Moriarty serves as the novels' overarching BigBad.
* ''Literature/YoungSherlockHolmes''
* ''Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota'' series places Sherlock and Watson in Minnesota, working with [[RailroadBaron James J. Hill]] to solve crimes. Many historic characters such as [[UsefulNotes/JohnWilkesBooth Boston Corbett]] and incidents are included.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* Holmes first appeared on television in 1937.
* ''Sherlock Holmes'' (1951), the first regular TV series based on Holmes' exploits, airing on the BBC with Alan Wheatley as Holmes and Raymond Francis as Watson.
* ''Sherlock Holmes'' (1954), a syndicated TV series filmed in France and starring Ronald Howard and Howard Marion-Crawford as Holmes and Watson.
* ''Sherlock Holmes'' (1964), a series of adaptations in 1964-65 and 1968 starring Douglas Wilmer and later Creator/PeterCushing as Holmes and Creator/NigelStock as Watson.
* ''Series/TheRivalsOfSherlockHolmes'' (1971, 1973) mentions Holmes by name in the title but is actually an anthology of ''other'' fictional detectives of the same period.
* ''The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It'' (1977), a comedic TV special starring Creator/JohnCleese as Holmes' grandson Arthur Sherlock Holmes. Creator/ArthurLowe played Dr. William Watson, the original doctor's grandson.
* ''Series/FantasyIsland'' had at least one story in which a guest wanted to be/meet the World's Greatest Detective.
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* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmesAndDoctorWatson'' (1979-1983). A [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet]] series in Russian language notable for ''not'' [[{{Flanderization}} flanderizing]] Watson into an idiot, being a generally faithful AdaptationDistillation and for the fact that the actor playing Holmes got an Order of the British Empire for his portrayal (surprisingly for a Soviet citizen). It's also provided fodder for a lot of [[RussianHumor Russian jokes]] (but then again, what doesn't?).
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* ''Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson'' (1979-1980), a 24-part series with Geoffrey Whitehead and Donald Pickering as Holmes and Watson. The series' producer, Sheldon Reynolds, also produced the Ronald Howard version.
* ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (BBC, 1982), with Creator/TomBaker starred as the Great Detective. He claimed that the BBC apologised for both the production and his performance.
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* ''Series/SherlockHolmes'' (1984-1994), produced by Granada Television (ITV), starring Creator/JeremyBrett, David Burke, and Edward Hardwicke. Generally considered to be most faithful to Conan Doyle's original vision of the character. Series one and two ran under then name ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'', three and four ''The Return of Sherlock Holmes'', five ''The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes'', and six ''The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes''. Five feature-length episodes were made and released between series, two based on the novels ''The Sign of Four'' and ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'', three based on short stories turned into AdaptationExpansion.
* ''Sherlock Holmes: The Golden Years'' was a duology of miniseries featuring Creator/ChristopherLee as the fifty-six-year-old Holmes and Creator/PatrickMacnee as the fifty-eight-year-old Watson. The two miniseries included ''Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady'' and ''Incident at Victoria Falls'' and featured appearances by historical domain characters such as Sigmund Freud, Elliot Ness, Lillie Langtry, Theodore Roosevelt and, an appearance by A. J. Raffles, the famed creation of Doyle's brother-in-law E. W. Hornung.
* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfShirleyHolmes'' (1997-2000) was a Canadian series about the great-grandniece of Sherlock Holmes solving crimes.
* ''[[Series/MurderRooms Murder Rooms: The Dark Origins of Sherlock Holmes]]'' is a 2000 BBC series which featured not Holmes and Watson, but instead had the young Arthur Conan Doyle himself in the [[TheWatson Watson role]] and expounded on the theory that the character of Holmes was a thinly-veiled stand-in for one of Doyle's medical school teachers, Professor Joseph Bell.
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' (2010-2017), a BBC series. Created by Creator/StevenMoffat and Creator/MarkGatiss, the series stars Creator/BenedictCumberbatch as Sherlock and Creator/MartinFreeman as Watson in a 21st-century SettingUpdate of the original stories. The show has been a critical and commercial smash hit both in the UK and abroad and cleaned up at the 2011 UsefulNotes/{{BAFTA}}s, including wins for Best Supporting Actor (Freeman) and Best Drama Series.
* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' (2012-2017), Creator/{{CBS}} series starring Creator/JonnyLeeMiller as Holmes and Creator/LucyLiu as [[GenderFlip Joan Watson]]. Sherlock goes to UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity after [[TraumaCongaLine becoming a heroin addict after a serious trauma]] while in London and meets Joan Watson, a sober companion hired by his father to help him in the post-rehab life. The main focus of the show is the growing relationship between Holmes and Watson as they solve cases together and works as a deconstruction of TheWatson and the {{Sidekick}} tropes. Joan Watson is one of the protagonists, an aspiring consultant detective (ex-sober companion and ex-surgeon) and her insights are crucial to the story arc.
* ''Series/MissSherlock'' (2018), a GenderFlip version set in modern Japan produced by HBO Asia. Watson is depicted as "Wato Tachibana," a surgeon returning from a volunteer mission in Syria. Unlike most versions, Wato and Miss Sherlock take an immediate dislike to each other for their opposing personalities and the two only become roommates at the prompting of Sherlock's brother and Wato only joins Sherlock's cases to try and [[DefrostingIceQueen curb Sherlock's more unpleasant character traits.]]
* ''Sherlock in Russia'' (also known as ''Sherlock: The Russian Chronicles''), a 2020 Russian series, has Holmes going to St. Petersburg, Russia to capture UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.
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* ''Series/TheIrregulars'', a 2021 Netflix-original series set in the Victorian era, follows [[BakerStreetRegular a group of street urchins]] who are hired by Holmes and Watson to solve supernatural cases.
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* An episode of ''The Father Dowling Mysteries'' had the good Father doubting his detecting skills when the police arrest the wrong man on his advice. This causes him to conjure up an image of his hero Holmes as a consulting detective to help him solve the case.
* The 1985 television PilotMovie ''The Return of Sherlock Holmes'' had Michael Pennington as the great detective, thawed out in modern times by a female descendant of Watson.
* ''Sherlock Holmes'', a 2013 Russian 8-part TV series created by Andrey Kavun and starring Igor Petrenko as Sherlock Holmes and Andrey Panin as Watson. Subvert the original stories by forcing Watson to over-romanticise actual events that happen in the series because Watson's editor finds real life boring.
* And a large number of made-for-TV-movies, starring such actors as Creator/TomBaker, Creator/LarryHagman, Creator/RogerMoore, Creator/RichardRoxburgh, Creator/RupertEverett, and Creator/MattFrewer.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' featured one of the franchise's characters, Professor James Moriarty, as an antagonist for two episodes. Due to some [[PhlebotinumBreakdown unexpected glitch in the Holodeck]], one of the characters becomes self-aware, realizing that he is a hologram trapped in a simulation. By his second appearance, he states that he is no longer the Moriarty of the books, however, having grown from that starting point due to his experiences on the ''Enterprise''.
* ''Sherlock: Untold Stories,'' a [[Main/JapaneseMedia Japanese]] series [[Main/SettingUpdate set in 2019]] UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}}, following the adventures of Shishio Homare (a freelance crime consultant) and Junichi Wakamiya (a psychiatrist) as they partner up to solve crimes.
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[[folder:Radio and Audio]]
* ''Radio/SherlockHolmesBBCRadio'' (1989 to 1998) starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson. This production is notable for adapting every novel and short story with the same pair of actors playing Holmes and Watson. Merrison's performance has some marked similarities to Brett's. It was so popular that a series of pastiches called ''The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' was commissioned which ran for four seasons. Merrison reprised his role as Holmes, but since Michael Willimas had passed away, Andrew Sachs (of Series/FawltyTowers fame) replaced him as Watson.
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* William Gillette, famous for playing Holmes on stage also played in two separate radio plays. The first was an adaptation of "The Speckled Band" and the second was an adaption of his famous play for ''Radio/LuxRadioTheatre''. Sadly both performances have been lost to time.
* Creator/OrsonWelles played Holmes in adaptation of Gillette's melodrama in an episode of his famous ''Radio/TheMercuryTheatreOnTheAir''.
* After the success of ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' and ''Film/{{The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes|1939}}'', Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce reprised their famous film roles for ''Radio/TheNewAdventuresOfSherlockHolmes'', which despite the title was a mix of adaptations of Conan Doyle's stories and new pastiches. Several are available here [[http://www.archive.org/details/HQSherlockRathboneTCS]])
* [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Radio]] has done numerous Holmes dramas over the years. Amongst the most famous are:
** ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' (1954-55), a 16 episode series starring Sir Creator/JohnGielgud as Holmes and Sir Creator/RalphRichardson as Watson. The show was co-produced with ABC Radio which meant that Creator/OrsonWelles guest-starred as Professor Moriarty.
** Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley played Holmes and Watson in over 80 different dramas from 1952 to 1969.
* Blackstone Audio's The Hollywood Theatre of the Ear did a boxset called ''Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Theater'' which featured Creator/MartinJarvis as Holmes and Kristoffer Tabori as Watson. It featured two classic stage adaptions of Holmes: William Gillette's ''Sherlock Holmes'', which also featured Creator/TonyJay as Professor Moriarty, Doyle's own adaption of ''The Speckled Band'', and an original parody by Yuri Rasovsky entitled ''Ghastly Double Murder in Famed Detective's Flat''.
* Creator/BigFinish, most famous for their extensive range of ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audio plays]], have been producing a series of Sherlock Holmes dramas. Besides the regular series, set between canon stories, one is set during Holmes' elderly years after the passing of Dr. Watson, one is a metafictional tale in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Professor Moriarty conspire against Holmes, and another pits Holmes against UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. The Great Detective is played by Roger Llewellyn (in his old age) and Creator/NicholasBriggs (in the regular episodes). Briggs' Holmes has also met the Creator/BigFinish version of [[AudioPlay/TheConfessionsOfDorianGray Dorian Gray]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresAllConsumingFire the Doctor himself]].
* A very abridged 2017 adaptation of ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' from indie Canadian audio production company Bleak December, with Creator/DerekJacobi as Holmes.
* {{Creator/Amazon}}'s audiobook service Audible, has produced several Holmes-based audio plays in recent years:
** ''Sherlock Holmes: The Voice of Treason'' (2020), an original tale by Creator/GeorgeMann and Cavan Scott, with Nicholas Boulton as Holmes and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as Watson.
** A 2021 adaptation of ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' also by Mann and Scott. Stars Creator/ColinSalmon as Holmes, Creator/StephenFry as Watson and Creator/MeeraSyal as CanonForeigner Mother Greep.
** ''[[Radio/TheDevilsGame Moriarty: The Devil's Game]]'' (2022). A 10-episode scripted podcast by Charles Kindinger depicting Moriarty as an innocent mathematics professor, who becomes a fugitive after being falsely accused of murder. The production stars Creator/DominicMonaghan as Moriarty, Creator/BillyBoyd as Colonel Sebastian Moran and Creator/PhilLamarr as Sherlock Holmes, with Creator/AdamGodley as Dr. Watson, Creator/CurtisArmstrong as Inspector Gregson, Josh Robert Thompson as Inspector Lestrade, and Creator/RebeccaMader as Mary Watson.
** ''The Baker Street Four'' (2023). An adaptation of the graphic novel series by Olivier Legrand, J.B. Djian, and David Etien. Starring Creator/PatersonJoseph as Holmes and Creator/BillNighy as Watson the cat.
* ''Sherlock & Co.,'' released in 2023 by Goalhanger Productions, provides a SettingUpdate to the modern day and reimagines Watson as a true crime podcaster.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
[[index]]
* ''TabletopGame/SherlockHolmesConsultingDetective''
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/TheSecretOfSherlockHolmes''
* ''Theatre/SherlockHolmes'', 1899 play written by and starring William Gillette. It featured an original plot. Years later, Creator/OrsonWelles would adapt the play for ''The Mercury Radio Theater'' with the explanation that, "It is not enough to say that William Gillette looks like Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes looks ''exactly'' like William Gillette." It was Gillette, and not Doyle, who popularized most of the visual tropes associated with the character to this day such as the deerstalker cap, the distinctive pipe and riding cloak. His iconic attire was originally depicted by Sidney Paget, who illustrated the stories for their initial publication in ''Strand Magazine'', but he only put Holmes in them in appropriate situations: when the story took him out of London, and into the countryside.
* ''Theatre/TheSpeckledBand'' - adapted by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself.
* ''Theatre/TheCruciferOfBlood'' - An adaptation by Paul Giovanni which was based on ''The Sign of Four''. It was made into a TV movie in 1991 featuring Creator/CharltonHeston as Sherlock Holmes (he had played the role previously in an LA production of the play, and Creator/JeremyBrett was his Watson).
* Starting in 1988, Creator/JeremyBrett and his second Watson, Edward Hardwicke, starred in a stage production titled ''Theatre/TheSecretOfSherlockHolmes''. It was written by Jeremy Paul, who scripted many episodes of [[Series/SherlockHolmes the Granada Television series.]]
* Charles Marowitz's black comedy ''Sherlock's Last Case,'' in which Watson has been so DrivenToMadness by Holmes' nastiness that he tries to murder him. [[spoiler: That goes so badly that poor Watson is DrivenToSuicide instead.]]
* There have been several Holmes musicals over the years, including:
** ''Baker Street'' (1965, music by Marian Grudeff, Raymond Jessel and Jerry Bock, lyrics by Grudeff, Jessel and Sheldon Harnick, book by Jerome Coopersmith)
** ''Sherlock Holmes: The Musical'' aka ''The Revenge of Sherlock Holmes'' (1988, music and lyrics by Creator/LeslieBricusse)
** ''Sherlock: The Musical'' (2022, music and lyrics by Denning Burton, book by Burton and Stefan van de Graaff)
** ''Sherlock Holmes and the Poisonwood'' (2024, music by Ben Glasstone, book by P Burton-Morgan, lyrics by Burton-Morgan and Glasstone)
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Three Sherlock Holmes games were released on the Famicom, but none of them outside Japan:
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesHakushakuReijouYuukaiJiken'' (1986) ("The Case of the Kidnapped Countess"), an action-adventure game which wasn't received well.
** ''VideoGame/MeitanteiHolmesKiriNoLondonSatsujinJiken'' (1988) ("The Great Detective Holmes: The Murder Case in Foggy London") an adventure game.
** ''MeitanteiHolmesMKaraNoChousenjou'' (1989) ("The Great Detective Holmes: M's Challenge"), an adventure game.
* ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesConsultingDetective'' was released for PC, [=TurboDuo=], CTDV and Sega CD in the early '90s, as part of the FullMotionVideo craze that gripped gaming after the introduction of the CD-ROM format.
* ''VideoGame/{{Sherlock|1984}}'' (1984): An InteractiveFiction game.
* ''VideoGame/SherlockTheRiddleOfTheCrownJewels'' (1988): One of the last InteractiveFiction games produced by Creator/{{Infocom}}, in which the player takes the role of Watson.
* ''VideoGame/TheLostFilesOfSherlockHolmes'', published by Creator/ElectronicArts, sadly limited to two adventures (''The Case of the Serrated Scalpel'' and ''The Case of the Rose Tattoo'') were released in the 1990s to portray two Holmes cases [[{{Kayfabe}} considered "too hot to show"]].
* Since 2002, the company Frogwares has been developing a series of Sherlock Holmes puzzle/adventure games based on the original books as well as including various crossovers with other series. As of 2021, the main titles in the series are:
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesTheMysteryOfTheMummy''
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesSecretOfTheSilverEarring''
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesTheAwakened'' -- a crossover with the Franchise/CthulhuMythos
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesVersusArseneLupin'' -- a crossover with Maurice Leblanc's Arsène Lupin stories, themselves a parody of Sherlock Holmes mysteries
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesVersusJackTheRipper''
** ''VideoGame/TheTestamentOfSherlockHolmes''
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesCrimesAndPunishments''
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesTheDevilsDaughter''
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesChapterOne'' -- Holmes' origin story prior to meeting Watson
* ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'' [[note]]Applies only to the Japanese version. The Western version [[WritingAroundTrademarks altered the names of all the Holmes-related elements]] due to not being a PublicDomainCharacter in all countries.[[/note]]
* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' is an unusual example - while he's not ''the'' focus character, Holmes is introduced as a major character in the game's sixth story chapter and joins the main cast, regardless of the player's status in obtaining him as a playable Ruler-class "Servant" party member, in the course of the ''Epic of Remnant'' expansion and the Cosmos in the Lostbelt arc. [[spoiler:James Moriarty makes a similar debut in the first ''[=EoR=]'' chapter as an Archer-class Servant and makes further appearances later on.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Crimesight}}'' (2022): An online co-op mystery simulation game by Creator/{{Konami}} where four players get to play as an A.I. based on Sherlock, Watson, Irene and Moriarty.
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* While the actual storyline itself never came to fruition, Erin confirms that Sherlock Holmes is part of the ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow'' canon: Watson had wrote a book about a time when he and Sherlock crossed paths with [[Manga/PetShopOfHorrors Count D]], but he shelved it because he knew no one would believe it due to the more supernatural elements and he wanted to be taken seriously as an author. However, the manuscript survived in some fashion, as Integra had been told it as a bedtime story.
* ''Webcomic/SignsOfThree'', a webcomic adaptation updating the stories to contemporary times, adding more diversity and LGBT themes whilst simultaneously putting a modern twist on things. Currently on one finished book, ''A Study of Scarlett'' (''Literature/AStudyInScarlet''), with the second, ''Fangs of Sussex'' (''The Sussex Vampire'') having just begun.
* ''Webcomic/WhateverRemains'' is a webcomic adaptation set in the 1920s.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'', a 1999 AnimatedAdaptation of Holmes RecycledINSPACE!
* "[[Recap/BraveStarrS1E53SherlockHolmesInThe23rdCenturyPart1 Sherlock Holmes]] [[Recap/BraveStarrS1E54SherlockHolmesInThe23rdCenturyPart2 in the 23rd Century]]", a two-part episode of the 1987 series ''WesternAnimation/BraveStarr''
* Holmes and Watson appeared in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''. During their time, Jason Blood tried (and failed) to bring Batman to that time but Holmes completed the spell. Holmes was soon able to deduce Batman must have been born to some doctor or at least a wealthy man.
* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockYack'' is another AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation.
* Sherlock, Watson and Lestrade appeared in few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/OrsonAndOlivia''.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
A number of films were made (Holmes has appeared in more films than any other single fictional character), some of which took a number of liberties with the story:
* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_Baffled Sherlock Holmes Baffled]]'', a 1900 silent film which lasts 30 seconds. Considered the earliest known detective movie due to Holmes's presence, even though the film was probably named so just for sake of using a famous name, and the character in the short has little to do with Holmes and doesn't do any detective work.
* The 1916 silent film ''Sherlock Holmes'', starring William Gillette in the title role.
* Creator/BasilRathbone and Nigel Bruce starred as Holmes and Watson in a popular series of film adaptations in the 1930s and 1940s. The first two ("The Hound of the Baskervilles" and "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes") were produced by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox and were based on, respectively, the Doyle novel and the William Gillette play; both were set in the Victorian era. The others, produced by Creator/{{Universal}}, moved the setting to the 1940s. Initially, Holmes and Watson fought ThoseWackyNazis, but they later went up against more conventional crooks. Bruce's portrayal of Watson as a bumbling incompetent rather than the original ladykilling man of action helped begin a long chain of similar adaptations.
* The 1932 Czech comedy Lelíček ve službách Sherlocka Holmese (Lelíček in the service of Sherlock Homes) combines Sherlock Holmes with Literature/ThePrisonerOfZenda. Holmes is hired by the Prime Minister of Portorico to find a double for their weak and cowardly king Fernando XXIII. Holmes finds Lelíček, a streetwise dept-plagued man from Prague (played by Czech comedy legend Vlasta Burian). Then, while Holmes dismatles a conspiracy against the king, Lelíček manages to survive several attempts at "king's" live and falls in love with the queen.
* In the 1937 German comedy adventure ''Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war'' (The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes), two unsuccessful private detectives (Hans Albers and Heinz Rühmann) decide to drum up interest by dressing up as Holmes and Watson. They are met with great deference everywhere, solve the theft of valuable stamps, but are put on trial for impersonation, where they insist that they told everybody that they ''weren't'' Holmes and Watson. Conan Doyle is shown laughing his head off in the courtroom audience and mentioning that Holmes and Watson are fictional characters he invented, which means the movie must be set before 1930.
* Film/HammerHorror adapted ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' in 1959 starring Creator/PeterCushing as Holmes, André Morell as Watson and Creator/ChristopherLee as Sir Henry Baskerville. It was supposed to be the first in a series of films, but disappointing box office returns dashed those hopes.
* The 1970 film ''Film/ThePrivateLifeOfSherlockHolmes'', directed by Creator/BillyWilder.
* ''Film/TheAdventureOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother'', released in 1975, was Creator/GeneWilder's directorial debut. It follows Sherlock's (self-proclaimed) smarter younger brother Siegerson, who attempts to thwart Moriarty on his own.
* A deleted scene in the Creator/NeilSimon Detective Movie parody ''Film/MurderByDeath'' features Holmes and Watson showing up late for the gathering. [[EditedForSyndication Edited For Television]] versions of the film generally restore the cameo.
* 1978's ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' starring Creator/DudleyMoore and Creator/PeterCook is one of the ''worst films ever made''. Available to watch on Netflix Watch Instantly, it is a stunningly bad comedy with the entire soundtrack consisting of Moore idly noodling on a piano.
* 1979, ''Film/MurderByDecree'' starring Creator/ChristopherPlummer as Holmes and Creator/JamesMason as (a Non-Flanderized) Watson on UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper case. The basis for the plot was the book ''Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution'' by Stephen Knight, the same book that would be the basis for Creator/AlanMoore's ''Comicbook/FromHell'' some years later. It was seen by some as a DarkerAndEdgier Sherlock Holmes movie but, given the subject matter, it's understandable. This was the second time Holmes and the Ripper met; the first time was in the 1966 movie ''A Study in Terror''.
* In the 1985 Levinson/Spielberg/Columbus movie ''Film/YoungSherlockHolmes'', a teenaged Holmes and Watson meet at a boarding school decades prior to their adult companionship. (Unusual in that it began with a disclaimer explaining that it was a "WhatIf" story.)
* In the 1988 movie ''Film/WithoutAClue'' the Holmes/Watson roles are reversed, with Watson (Creator/BenKingsley) as the real detective and Holmes (Creator/MichaelCaine) as an alcoholic actor hired by Watson as his public front.
* In perhaps the most unusual adaptation, there is the 1971 movie ''Film/{{They Might Be Giants|1971}}'' (from which [[Music/TheyMightBeGiants the band]] took its name), which starred Creator/GeorgeCScott as a man who thought he was Sherlock Holmes, and Joanne Woodward as his psychiatrist, whose name was Watson. The film itself took its name from a line in Don Quixote.
* A 1986 Soviet comedy called ''Film/MyDearlyBelovedDetective''. Not quite an adaptation, since Holmes and Watson are stated to be fictional in-story. However, [[DistaffCounterpart two ladies with the last names of Holmes and Watson decide to enter the business]]...
* The 1998 film ''Film/ZeroEffect'' is a modern-dress US adaptation of "A Scandal in Bohemia", with the Holmes and Watson figures renamed Daryl Zero (Creator/BillPullman) and Steve Arlo (Creator/BenStiller). Despite the name changes, the plot and characters are instantly recognizable.
* 2002 saw an adaptation of ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' which played up Holmes's addiction. It featured Creator/RichardRoxburgh (then best known as the Duke in ''Film/MoulinRouge'') as Holmes and Creator/IanHart (Professor Quirrell in ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone''; he would later reprise the role in ''Silk Stocking'') as Watson, and introduced several changes to the story: Dr. Mortimer was much OlderAndWiser than in the book, his wife is a believer in the supernatural and holds a party that is ''very'' important to the plot, Selden becomes an AscendedExtra, and [[spoiler: Beryl Stapleton is murdered by her husband Roger aka the BigBad.]]
* ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'', a movie directed by Creator/GuyRitchie with Creator/RobertDowneyJr. as Holmes and Creator/JudeLaw as Watson released on Christmas Day. Response to the trailer, [[NeverTrustATrailer which basically strung the comedic moments together]] to make it look more like a spoof than an actual Holmes story, was... controversial... in fandom. The movie received mostly positive reviews, and critics praised Downey Jr's portrayal as the detective (for which he won a Golden Globe) and the chemistry between him and Law. And it was a box-office hit. A sequel to this film, titled ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'', came to theaters in December 2011 with Jared Harris as Professor Moriarty and Creator/StephenFry as Mycroft Holmes.
* Creator/TheAsylum released ''Film/SirArthurConanDoylesSherlockHolmes'' directly to DVD in 2010 to piggyback on the Ritchie film. Starring Ben Syder as Holmes and Gareth David-Lloyd as Watson. It's {{Steampunk}} and involves dinosaurs.
* ''Film/MrHolmes'', a 2015 film based on the novel ''A Slight Trick of the Mind'', follows a 93-year-old Holmes who becomes determined to solve the decades-old mystery that drove him into retirement before his slowly deteriorating mind fails him completely. Creator/IanMcKellen plays Holmes.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Adrian Conan Doyle (son of Arthur Conan Doyle) and Creator/JohnDicksonCarr (Doyle's biographer and friend) wrote a series of short stories called ''The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes'', supposedly the accounts of the cases that Watson mentioned but never made it to the original 56 short stories. Some consider it canon, for being written by Arthur Conan Doyle's son, and treat it as the tenth volume of Sherlock Holmes canon, but many more don't for the obvious fact that it wasn't written or approved by Arthur Conan Doyle (it was written and published after his death) and it was co-written by an unrelated author. Sequels were expected but never produced, mainly because the authors got in a dispute over who wrote what.
* Nicholas Meyer's novel (later adapted to film), ''Literature/TheSevenPercentSolution'' proposed that the Moriarty stories were complete fictions invented by Watson to cover for Holmes's recovery from cocaine addiction. (This was to explain the canon's apparent contradiction of Moriarty dying in the story that ''introduced'' him, yet figuring in other prequel stories.) In the story, Moriarty is revealed as Holmes's childhood maths tutor, whom Holmes had cast as a criminal in his drug-induced delirium. The story ends with a departing Holmes suggesting that Watson explain his absence to the readers by telling them he'd been murdered by his math tutor.
* Laurie R. King's ''Literature/MaryRussell'' series takes place in the 1910s-20s. The title character, a young woman who comes to live on the Sussex Downs after being orphaned in a car accident, meets the retired Holmes there and becomes first his protege and later his wife.
* Robert L. Fish's ridiculously pun-packed Schlock Homes stories...where to begin...
** Some titles of stories: "The Adventure of the Printer's Inc.", "The Adventure of the Spectacled Band" (there is a Holmes adventure of the ''speckled'' band), "The Adventure of the Snared Drummer", "The Adventure of the Perforated Ulster", "The Adventure of the Dog in the Knight", "The Adventure of the Artist's Mottle"
** Watney's first paragraph of "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarters":
--> "My notes for the early part of the year '65 contain several instances of more than passing interest for those who follow the adventures of my friend Mr. Schlock Homes. There was, for example, his brilliant solution to the mysterious gunning down of a retired boilermaker, a case which I find listed as ''The Adventure of the Shot and the Bier''; and there is also reference to the intriguing business of the hitchhiking young actress, noted in my journal as ''The Adventure of the Ingenue's Thumb''." (There's a Holmes adventure of the ''engineer's'' thumb.)
* The ''Literature/EnolaHolmes'' series by Nancy Springer, which depicts the adventures of the much younger sister of Sherlock. On top of each mystery, the overall plot arc is the eventual reconciliation of the Holmes siblings as Enola finds that she is a match for her brother in every way for her age and Sherlock learns to admire his brilliant sister as a professional colleague. It has [[Film/EnolaHolmes a film adaptation]] released on Netflix in 2020, starring Creator/MillieBobbyBrown as the titular main character and Creator/HenryCavill as the great detective himself.
* Creator/MichaelChabon's 2004 novella ''Literature/TheFinalSolution'', in which Holmes (never named directly, but it is clearly him), a 90ish old man living in country retirement as a beekeeper, tries to locate a German Jewish boy's stolen parrot.
* Andrew Lane's ''Literature/YoungSherlockHolmes'' series (not to be confused with the movie of the same name), chronicling a [[TeenGenius teenage Sherlock's]] adventures. These stand to be the only teen novels endorsed by the Doyle Estate.
** As Andy Lane, he'd earlier written ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresAllConsumingFire All-Consuming Fire]]'', a Literature/{{Doctor Who New Adventure|s}} crossing Holmes over with the Doctor, Ace and Benny. It was later adapted by Creator/BigFinish, who also made it a ''de facto'' crossover with their own regular Sherlock Holmes series, mentioned below.
* ''Literature/BasilOfBakerStreet'', later adapted by Creator/{{Disney}} as ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''. A FunnyAnimal version of the mythos, and many a child's first exposure to Sherlock Holmes. Basil's name is an obvious ShoutOut to Creator/BasilRathbone. In the film, Rathbone himself even has a vocal cameo (albeit one well after his death) as Holmes himself.
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmesOfBakerStreet'', a popular tongue-in-cheek "biography" of Sherlock Holmes written in 1962 by W.S. Baring-Gould, has been the source of many interesting theories about Holmes, some of which are often assumed to be canon (even in this very entry). These include the idea that the King of Bohemia was Edward [=VII=]; that Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler became lovers in Montenegro during the time Holmes was hiding from Moran, and that Irene returned to New Jersey to bear his child, a boy later known as Literature/NeroWolfe [[note]]This was actually suggested to him by Creator/RexStout, the writer of the Nero Wolfe novels, but given that Stout once wrote a paper suggesting that Watson was a woman...[[/note]]; that Holmes in his twenties was a stage actor in a company that toured America; that he worked on the UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper case; that Watson had three wives; that Holmes's bee-keeping in later years was intended as a way of producing royal jelly, then thought of as a "fountain of youth"; and that Holmes died in the 1950s after spending the war years - when he would have been roughly 90 years old - fighting Nazis. In ''Film/TheAdventureOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother'', the title character, Siegerson, is named for Baring-Gould's Holmes ''pere''. As a way of freeing up Sherlock and Mycroft for their various occupations while still ensuring they were members of the "right" class, Baring-Gould invented Sherringford, the eldest--and smartest--brother, who stayed home in Yorkshire to take care of the responsibilities of a country squire. Sherringford was Holmes's original name in Doyle's first draft of ''A Study in Scarlet''.
* ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheDurbervilles'' by Creator/KimNewman focuses on Professor Moriarty and his subordinate, Sebastian Moran, as they share a series of adventures that oddly echo Holmes's famous cases and have them meeting [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover numerous other characters from Victorian and Edwardian fiction]]. The last story in the collection, "The Problem of the Final Adventure", retells "The Final Problem" from Moran's point of view.
** Titan Books, Newman's publisher, has an ongoing series of Holmes pastiches.
* ''Trouble in Bugland: A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries'' is Sherlock Holmes in "Bugland," where everyone is an insect. Holmes is Inspector Mantis, a praying mantis, and Watson is Doctor Hopper.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/TimePatrol'', the Victorian era office would like to hire a contemporary detective, but the only one clever enough is probably clever enough to figure out the Time Patrol. Other clues make it clear who this unnamed detective is.
* ''Literature/TheHouseOfSilk'', by Creator/AnthonyHorowitz, follows two crimes that end up closely linked, one where a family is being hounded by an American gang boss and another where Holmes searches for the elusive House of Silk. Notable in that it's the first novel that the Conan Doyle Estate has endorsed.
** Horowitz has since published a follow-up, ''Literature/{{Moriarty}}'', which begins immediately after the encounter at Reichenbach Falls.
* ''The Holmes/Dracula Files'' by Fred Saberhagen, a {{Crossover}} novel that's pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin; Sherlock Holmes meets {{Dracula}}. Also used to explain [[NoodleIncident The Giant Rat of Sumatra]].
* Brazilian TV personality Jô Soares (a veteran TV comedian, now known for his Creator/DavidLetterman-style talk show) wrote a book titled "O Xangô de Baker Street". In that book, Holmes was described as knowing the Portuguese language, which helped him since he went to Brazil to try to figure out the identity of a serial killer. His portrayal in that book had him misinterpret clues. He [[spoiler:failed, which was attributed to his lack of knowledge of how musical notes were known in Brazil. The culprit, whose identity was revealed to the readers, moved to England and was implied to be UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper]].
* ''[[Literature/DustAndShadow Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson]]'', by Lyndsay Faye. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* ''Bert Coules'', the writer who set out to dramatize the entire canon for BBC radio, also wrote 15 dramatizations of his own, available from the BBC as ''The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes''.
* Contained in Creator/StephenKing's short-fiction collection ''Literature/NightmaresAndDreamscapes'' is the Sherlock Holmes pastiche "The Doctor's Case." A shipping magnate has been murdered in what Lestrade describes as "the perfect locked-room mystery"; Holmes and Watson investigate, and the solution takes an unusual and surprising turn.
* Denis O. Smith's ''The Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes'' is twelve new cases from Holmes' early years, in a fair imitation of Doyle's style.
* Creator/MichaelKurland's Moriarty novels, beginning with ''Literature/TheInfernalDevice'', are a PerspectiveFlip in which Moriarty is the protagonist.
* Donald Thomas has published multiple short stories and novella pastiches featuring Holmes and Watson, most recently ''The Execution of Sherlock Holmes and Other New Adventures of the Great Detective.''
* Loren D. Estleman has published crossover novels featuring Holmes meeting up with Literature/{{Dracula}} and [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Jekyll and Hyde.]]
* In the early 2000s, David Pirie wrote three novels featuring Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph Bell as the detectives. Although the novels are self-enclosed, the larger plot arc remains [[OrphanedSeries unfinished.]]
* Michael Dibdin's take on Sherlock Holmes and UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, ''The Last Sherlock Holmes Story.'' [[spoiler: Holmes ''is'' Jack. He's also Moriarty.]]
* Creator/ManlyWadeWellman wrote one short story in which a by-then elderly Holmes and Watson stop a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi agent]] from setting up an invasion of England in 1940. He also wrote a novel in which Sherlock, Watson, and Sherlock's cousin Literature/ProfessorChallenger help to stop [[AlienInvasion the War of the Worlds]]. Rather disliked by some fans for setting up a romance between Holmes and Mrs. Hudson.
* Robert Ryan has three novels and a forthcoming collection of short stories in which the primary detective is Watson, not Holmes. They're set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
* Creator/NeilGaiman's 2003 story ''Literature/AStudyInEmerald'' puts Sherlock Holmes characters in a Franchise/CthulhuMythos setting, where the Earth is ruled by the Great Old Ones.
** Gaiman's other short story ''Literature/TheCaseOfDeathAndHoney'' ties together Sherlock's post-retirement bee-keeping and the canon GenreShift story ''The Adventure Of the Creeping Man'', portraying an elderly Sherlock trying to find a source of eternal youth.
* Bob Garcia's novels (for some reason they don't appear to be translated into English as of 2016, although they are available in a few other languages). A fair deal more horror than canon.
* G. S. Denning's ''Warlock Holmes'' series is an AffectionateParody of the canon, in which Holmes is a CloudCuckooLander wizard [[Really700YearsOld over two centuries old]] whose mind is [[DemonicPossession filled with demons]], Watson is the actual brains of the outfit and (usually) OnlySaneMan, and Lestrade is a vampire.
* The ''Inspector Lestrade'' series by M. J. Trow, portraying him as a skilled detective who is very irritated that John Watson chose to make him look like an idiot to make Holmes look good. The end of the third volume reveals [[spoiler: that during a rest cure in the Swiss Alps, Holmes murdered a certain professor of mathematics under the impression the man was ''Watson''.]]
* ''Two Hundred and Twenty One Baker Streets'' is an anthology of stories re-imagining Holmes in many different times and places, from 17th century Scotland and 1970s New York to contemporary South Africa and a robot-populated far future.
* Keisuke Matsuoka's ''Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Japan'' has Holmes going to Japan after defeating Moriarty in Reichenbach Falls and investigating a scandal that would ruin the fragile relations between the Meiji-era Japan and the Tsarist Russia. He also teams up with Hirobumi Ito, the first Prime Minister of Japan.
* James Lovegrove's ''The Cthulhu Casebooks'' trilogy which is a crossover between Holmes and the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
* Former NBA legend, Creator/KareemAbdulJabbar, wrote a book series about Sherlock's older brother, Mycroft Holmes.
* Michael Hardwick (who had previously adapted one Holmes story for radio and two for television, and written the novelization of the film ''The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'') wrote two Holmes novels, ''The Prisoner of the Devil'' (1979, in which Holmes is called in to investigate the Dreyfuss Affair) and ''The Revenge of the Hound'' (1987, in which Holmes investigates a supposed return of the Hound of the Baskervilles). He later wrote ''The Private Life of Dr. Watson'', Watson's memoirs of his life before meeting Holmes, and Holmes' own memoirs, ''Sherlock Holmes: My Life and Crimes''.
* Leonard Goldberg is writing the ''Daughter of Sherlock Holmes'' series, about the adventures of Joanne Blalock - the illegitimate daughter of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler (the result of an unintended drug-induced one night stand rather than any sort of romance) - and John Watson, Jr in 1914 London.
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[[folder:Notable audiobook readers]]
There have numerous audiobook recordings of both the original canon, and various pastiches. Here is a list of some of the most prolific, notable, or more highly regarded performers:
* Creator/BasilRathbone (Recorded 5 selected Doyle stories for Caedmon Records in the 1960s, subsequently re-released by {{HarperColins}} Audio in 2008)
* Creator/PeterCushing (Recorded ''The Return of Sherlock Holmes'' for the Royal National Institute for the Blind in 1971. Was widely commercially released in 2011 by Cosmic Hobo Productions.)
* Douglas Wilmer (Narrated selected Doyle stories for Penguin Audio in 1997)
* Creator/BenedictCumberbatch (Narrated John Taylor's ''Sherlock Holmes' Rediscovered Railway Mysteries & other stories'' for {{AudioGo}}/BBC Audio)
* {{Creator/Ian McKellen}} (Narrated ''Literature/TheValleyOfFear'' for BBC Audio)
* Creator/ChristopherLee (Narrated ''The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes'' for Harper Audio in the 1990s; re-released in the 2000s)
* Creator/DerekJacobi (Narrated the Doyle canon for {{AudioGo}}, and Creator/AnthonyHorowitz's ''Literature/TheHouseOfSilk'')
* Edward Hardwicke (Narrated selected Doyle stories for CSA Telltapes Ltd./The Audio Partners Publishing Corp; subsequently re-released by {{AudioGo}} and BBC Audio over the years)
* Creator/StephenFry (Narrated the entire Doyle canon for Audible, also wrote and read introductions for each story)
* Creator/TimCurry (Narrated Creator/StephenKing's ''The Doctor's Case'')
* Simon Vance (Narrated the Doyle canon, and numerous pastiches including Lyndsay Faye's ''Literature/DustAndShadow'')
* David Timson (Narrated the complete Doyle canon for Naxos Audio)
* John Telfer (Narrated Donald Thomas's pastiches)
* Simon Prebble
* Walter Covell
* Jenny Sterlin (Narrated Laurie R. King's Literature/MaryRussell series)
* Katherine Kellgren (Narrated Nancy Springer's Literature/EnolaHolmes series)
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to:
[[AC:Novels]]
* ''Literature/AStudyInScarlet'' (1887)
* ''Literature/TheSignOfTheFour'' (1890)
* ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' (1902)
* ''Literature/TheValleyOfFear'' (1915)
[[AC:Anthologies]]
* ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' (1892)
* ''The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'' (1894)
* ''The Return of Sherlock Holmes'' (1905)
* ''His Last Bow'' (1917)
* ''The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes'' (1927)
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!! Sherlock Holmes media:
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Anime/SherlockHound'', an {{anime}} adaptation that recast the characters as {{Funny Animal}}s and aired in 1984 and 1985.
* ''Anime/CaseFileNoTwoTwoOneKabukicho'' is a modernized version set in Shinjuku, Japan. This version of Holmes is a fan of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakugo rakugo]] and explains his findings on the case in this manner.
* ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'' focuses on Holmes' archnemesis, James Moriarty, who is actually composed of three brothers sharing the same name. This version of Moriarty wants to destroy the British noble class.
* ''Anime/VampireHolmes'': An anime where Holmes is a vampire, as opposed to a detective.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/BakerStreet''
* Franchise/{{Batman}} meets Sherlock Holmes in ''Detective Comics'' #572, the 50th anniversary. In it, Batman travels to London to foil a plot by a descendant of Moriarty based on a previously untold adventure of Holmes. At the end of the adventure, the Dark Knight, and his allies encounter the ancient (but still very much alive) Sherlock.
* ''Franchise/XMen'':
** ''Deadpool Killustrated'', a sequel to ''Comicbook/DeadpoolKillsTheMarvelUniverse'', has Sherlock Holmes confronting Deadpool, who is killing every famous literary character in the Ideaverse. He even forms his own Avengers team consisting of his partner Dr. Watson, Hua Mulan, Beowulf and Natty Bumppo.
** In the Marvel Universe itself, it was frequently implied -- and later ''ComicBook/ImmortalXMen'' explicitly confirmed the connection -- that Destiny, whose real name is "Irene Adler", was in fact ''the'' Irene Adler and that [[SamusIsAGirl her lover Mystique was herself Holmes]].
* ''ComicBook/KidSherlock''
* In ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', Sherlock Holmes only appears once in a flashback where he had his confrontation with Moriarty in Reichenbach Falls. He is also possibly a former member of the League where [[https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4342143033_46867d3f10_b.jpg the League's symbol is found on his silver cigar case]]. Like in the original canon, Sherlock fakes his death and retires to Sussex where he is a beekeeper. In 1904, Mina Murray finds him and asks him to be the League's adviser but Sherlock rejects the offer. However, his older brother, Mycroft Holmes, was the director of the League called "M". The same goes with [[spoiler:Moriarty]] who was Mycroft's predecessor and has a descendent in the 1950's.
* ''ComicBook/{{Moriarty}}''
* ''ComicBook/SherlockHolmesAndTheHorrorOfFrankenstein''
* ''ComicBook/WatsonAndHolmes''
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[[folder:Fan Fiction]]
A common urban legend is that Sherlock Holmes fanfics were so common as to make the writers of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' believe that the character, as well as his nemesis Professor Moriarty, were in the public domain when they made the episode "Elementary, My Dear Data", only to receive an angry letter from the Doyle estate. This is, unfortunately, not supported by the facts, but it makes a good story -- students of urban legends will, of course, recognize some slight resemblance between this and the Neiman-Marcus Red Velvet Cake legend.
Sherlock Holmes was arguably one of the first franchises in the modern era to become almost as famous for its fanfiction as for its fiction. Holmes captured the imagination of many writers and spawned a considerable amount of unauthorized sequels or guest appearances -- especially across the Atlantic, as the state of international copyright enforcement was largely nonexistent at the time. According to Victorian literature expert Jess Nevins, it was fairly common for penny-dreadful writers to write stories in which Sherlock Holmes is immediately murdered and a plucky young protagonist has to figure out who did it. Also, stories of the French character Literature/ArseneLupin began as a Holmes copycat, but subsequently featured a renamed (by order of Conan Doyle's lawyers) version of Holmes himself.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''. Creator/{{Disney}}'s adaptation of ''Literature/BasilOfBakerStreet''. The mice world of England has its own Sherlock Holmes, Basil that is, who lives inside the wall of Sherlock's own house in Baker Street.
* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockGnomes''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryMeetSherlockHolmes''. And not only do the famed cat and mouse, but so do Droopy, Spike, Tyke, and Butch, in grand over-the-top style.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
[[AC:Crime/Mystery Films]]
* ''Film/SherlockHolmes1922'', a.k.a ''Moriarty'', adapted from the play, ''Theatre/SherlockHolmes''.
* ''Film/TheSleepingCardinal'' (1931)
* ''Film/SherlockHolmes1932''
* ''Film/TheSignOfFourSherlockHolmesGreatestCase'' (1932)
* ''Film/AStudyInScarlet'' (1933)
* ''Film/MurderAtTheBaskervilles'' (1937)
* 20th Century Fox films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce:
** ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' (1939)
** ''Film/{{The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes|1939}}'' (1939)
* Universal movies starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce:
** ''Film/TheBakerStreetDozen'' (1942-1946)
* ''Film/SherlockHolmesAndTheDeadlyNecklace'' (1962)
* ''Film/AStudyInTerror'' (1965)
* ''Film/ThePrivateLifeOfSherlockHolmes'' (1970)
* ''Film/SherlockHolmesInNewYork'' (1976)
* ''Film/MurderByDecree'' (1979)
* ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles1983''
* ''Film/YoungSherlockHolmes'' (1985)
* ''Film/NineteenNinetyFourBakerStreetSherlockHolmesReturns'' (1993)
* ''Film/SherlockCaseOfEvil'' (2002)
* ''Film/SherlockHolmesAndTheCaseOfTheSilkStocking'' (2004)
* Warner Bros. films starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law:
** ''Film/{{Sherlock Holmes|2009}}'' (2009)
** ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'' (2011)
* ''Film/SirArthurConanDoylesSherlockHolmes'' (2010): TheMockbuster from Creator/TheAsylum.
* ''Film/MrHolmes'' (2015)
* ''Film/TheReturnOfSherlockHolmes'' (2016)
* ''Film/EnolaHolmes'' (2020)
** ''Film/EnolaHolmes2'' (2022)
[[AC:Comedy/Parody Films]]
* ''Film/{{They Might Be Giants|1971}}'' (1971)
* ''Film/TheAdventureOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother'' (1975)
* ''Film/WithoutAClue'' (1988)
* ''Film/HolmesAndWatson'' (2018)
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[[folder:Literature (post-Conan Doyle)]]
* ''Literature/TheAngelOfTheCrows''
* ''Literature/AriaTheScarletAmmo'' features one of the protagonists, Aria H. Kanzaki, as the great-granddaughter of Sherlock Holmes. Then in Volume 5, [[spoiler:Sherlock himself made his appearance as one of the antagonists]].
* ''Literature/BasilOfBakerStreet''
* ''Literature/TheCaseOfDeathAndHoney''
* ''Literature/DrJekyllAndMrHolmes''
* ''Literature/TheEmpireOfCorpses'' has Watson as the main character and still a medical student. In this story, he is tasked by the British government to retrieve Victor Frankenstein's notes which are the key to obtaining the souls of the dead.
* ''Literature/EnolaHolmes''
* ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheDurbervilles''
* ''Literature/TheHouseOfSilk''
* ''Literature/TheInfernalDevice'' and sequel books focused on Professor Moriarty by Creator/MichaelKurland.
* ''Literature/TheItalianSecretary''
* ''Literature/LockAndMori''
* The fanfiction and published pastiches of Creator/MarciaWilson.
* ''Literature/MaryRussell''
* ''Literature/{{Moriarty}}''
* ''Literature/ProfessorMoriartySeries''
* ''Literature/TheSevenPercentSolution''
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmesAndDoctorWasNot'' - An anthology of {{Elseworlds}} stories where Holmes is paired with a doctor other than Watson.
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmesOfBakerStreet''
* ''Literature/TheSherlockHolmesStoriesOfEdwardDHoch''
* ''Sherlock Holmes: The Game's Afoot'' - A compilation of short stories written by multiple authors
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmesVsDracula''
* ''Literature/TheSherlockian''
* ''Literature/SherlockInLove''
* ''Literature/SolarPons''
* ''Literature/AStudyInEmerald''
* ''Literature/AStudyInCharlotte''
* ''Literature/UndeadGirlMurderFarce'': Alongside other VictorianLondon characters, Holmes and Watson appear and play a major role in the second arc. Moriarty serves as the novels' overarching BigBad.
* ''Literature/YoungSherlockHolmes''
* ''Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota'' series places Sherlock and Watson in Minnesota, working with [[RailroadBaron James J. Hill]] to solve crimes. Many historic characters such as [[UsefulNotes/JohnWilkesBooth Boston Corbett]] and incidents are included.
[[/index]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* Holmes first appeared on television in 1937.
* ''Sherlock Holmes'' (1951), the first regular TV series based on Holmes' exploits, airing on the BBC with Alan Wheatley as Holmes and Raymond Francis as Watson.
* ''Sherlock Holmes'' (1954), a syndicated TV series filmed in France and starring Ronald Howard and Howard Marion-Crawford as Holmes and Watson.
* ''Sherlock Holmes'' (1964), a series of adaptations in 1964-65 and 1968 starring Douglas Wilmer and later Creator/PeterCushing as Holmes and Creator/NigelStock as Watson.
* ''Series/TheRivalsOfSherlockHolmes'' (1971, 1973) mentions Holmes by name in the title but is actually an anthology of ''other'' fictional detectives of the same period.
* ''The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It'' (1977), a comedic TV special starring Creator/JohnCleese as Holmes' grandson Arthur Sherlock Holmes. Creator/ArthurLowe played Dr. William Watson, the original doctor's grandson.
* ''Series/FantasyIsland'' had at least one story in which a guest wanted to be/meet the World's Greatest Detective.
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* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmesAndDoctorWatson'' (1979-1983). A [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet]] series in Russian language notable for ''not'' [[{{Flanderization}} flanderizing]] Watson into an idiot, being a generally faithful AdaptationDistillation and for the fact that the actor playing Holmes got an Order of the British Empire for his portrayal (surprisingly for a Soviet citizen). It's also provided fodder for a lot of [[RussianHumor Russian jokes]] (but then again, what doesn't?).
[[/index]]
* ''Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson'' (1979-1980), a 24-part series with Geoffrey Whitehead and Donald Pickering as Holmes and Watson. The series' producer, Sheldon Reynolds, also produced the Ronald Howard version.
* ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (BBC, 1982), with Creator/TomBaker starred as the Great Detective. He claimed that the BBC apologised for both the production and his performance.
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* ''Series/SherlockHolmes'' (1984-1994), produced by Granada Television (ITV), starring Creator/JeremyBrett, David Burke, and Edward Hardwicke. Generally considered to be most faithful to Conan Doyle's original vision of the character. Series one and two ran under then name ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'', three and four ''The Return of Sherlock Holmes'', five ''The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes'', and six ''The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes''. Five feature-length episodes were made and released between series, two based on the novels ''The Sign of Four'' and ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'', three based on short stories turned into AdaptationExpansion.
* ''Sherlock Holmes: The Golden Years'' was a duology of miniseries featuring Creator/ChristopherLee as the fifty-six-year-old Holmes and Creator/PatrickMacnee as the fifty-eight-year-old Watson. The two miniseries included ''Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady'' and ''Incident at Victoria Falls'' and featured appearances by historical domain characters such as Sigmund Freud, Elliot Ness, Lillie Langtry, Theodore Roosevelt and, an appearance by A. J. Raffles, the famed creation of Doyle's brother-in-law E. W. Hornung.
* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfShirleyHolmes'' (1997-2000) was a Canadian series about the great-grandniece of Sherlock Holmes solving crimes.
* ''[[Series/MurderRooms Murder Rooms: The Dark Origins of Sherlock Holmes]]'' is a 2000 BBC series which featured not Holmes and Watson, but instead had the young Arthur Conan Doyle himself in the [[TheWatson Watson role]] and expounded on the theory that the character of Holmes was a thinly-veiled stand-in for one of Doyle's medical school teachers, Professor Joseph Bell.
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' (2010-2017), a BBC series. Created by Creator/StevenMoffat and Creator/MarkGatiss, the series stars Creator/BenedictCumberbatch as Sherlock and Creator/MartinFreeman as Watson in a 21st-century SettingUpdate of the original stories. The show has been a critical and commercial smash hit both in the UK and abroad and cleaned up at the 2011 UsefulNotes/{{BAFTA}}s, including wins for Best Supporting Actor (Freeman) and Best Drama Series.
* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' (2012-2017), Creator/{{CBS}} series starring Creator/JonnyLeeMiller as Holmes and Creator/LucyLiu as [[GenderFlip Joan Watson]]. Sherlock goes to UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity after [[TraumaCongaLine becoming a heroin addict after a serious trauma]] while in London and meets Joan Watson, a sober companion hired by his father to help him in the post-rehab life. The main focus of the show is the growing relationship between Holmes and Watson as they solve cases together and works as a deconstruction of TheWatson and the {{Sidekick}} tropes. Joan Watson is one of the protagonists, an aspiring consultant detective (ex-sober companion and ex-surgeon) and her insights are crucial to the story arc.
* ''Series/MissSherlock'' (2018), a GenderFlip version set in modern Japan produced by HBO Asia. Watson is depicted as "Wato Tachibana," a surgeon returning from a volunteer mission in Syria. Unlike most versions, Wato and Miss Sherlock take an immediate dislike to each other for their opposing personalities and the two only become roommates at the prompting of Sherlock's brother and Wato only joins Sherlock's cases to try and [[DefrostingIceQueen curb Sherlock's more unpleasant character traits.]]
* ''Sherlock in Russia'' (also known as ''Sherlock: The Russian Chronicles''), a 2020 Russian series, has Holmes going to St. Petersburg, Russia to capture UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.
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[[index]]
* ''Series/TheIrregulars'', a 2021 Netflix-original series set in the Victorian era, follows [[BakerStreetRegular a group of street urchins]] who are hired by Holmes and Watson to solve supernatural cases.
[[/index]]
* An episode of ''The Father Dowling Mysteries'' had the good Father doubting his detecting skills when the police arrest the wrong man on his advice. This causes him to conjure up an image of his hero Holmes as a consulting detective to help him solve the case.
* The 1985 television PilotMovie ''The Return of Sherlock Holmes'' had Michael Pennington as the great detective, thawed out in modern times by a female descendant of Watson.
* ''Sherlock Holmes'', a 2013 Russian 8-part TV series created by Andrey Kavun and starring Igor Petrenko as Sherlock Holmes and Andrey Panin as Watson. Subvert the original stories by forcing Watson to over-romanticise actual events that happen in the series because Watson's editor finds real life boring.
* And a large number of made-for-TV-movies, starring such actors as Creator/TomBaker, Creator/LarryHagman, Creator/RogerMoore, Creator/RichardRoxburgh, Creator/RupertEverett, and Creator/MattFrewer.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' featured one of the franchise's characters, Professor James Moriarty, as an antagonist for two episodes. Due to some [[PhlebotinumBreakdown unexpected glitch in the Holodeck]], one of the characters becomes self-aware, realizing that he is a hologram trapped in a simulation. By his second appearance, he states that he is no longer the Moriarty of the books, however, having grown from that starting point due to his experiences on the ''Enterprise''.
* ''Sherlock: Untold Stories,'' a [[Main/JapaneseMedia Japanese]] series [[Main/SettingUpdate set in 2019]] UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}}, following the adventures of Shishio Homare (a freelance crime consultant) and Junichi Wakamiya (a psychiatrist) as they partner up to solve crimes.
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[[folder:Radio and Audio]]
* ''Radio/SherlockHolmesBBCRadio'' (1989 to 1998) starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson. This production is notable for adapting every novel and short story with the same pair of actors playing Holmes and Watson. Merrison's performance has some marked similarities to Brett's. It was so popular that a series of pastiches called ''The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' was commissioned which ran for four seasons. Merrison reprised his role as Holmes, but since Michael Willimas had passed away, Andrew Sachs (of Series/FawltyTowers fame) replaced him as Watson.
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* William Gillette, famous for playing Holmes on stage also played in two separate radio plays. The first was an adaptation of "The Speckled Band" and the second was an adaption of his famous play for ''Radio/LuxRadioTheatre''. Sadly both performances have been lost to time.
* Creator/OrsonWelles played Holmes in adaptation of Gillette's melodrama in an episode of his famous ''Radio/TheMercuryTheatreOnTheAir''.
* After the success of ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' and ''Film/{{The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes|1939}}'', Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce reprised their famous film roles for ''Radio/TheNewAdventuresOfSherlockHolmes'', which despite the title was a mix of adaptations of Conan Doyle's stories and new pastiches. Several are available here [[http://www.archive.org/details/HQSherlockRathboneTCS]])
* [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Radio]] has done numerous Holmes dramas over the years. Amongst the most famous are:
** ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' (1954-55), a 16 episode series starring Sir Creator/JohnGielgud as Holmes and Sir Creator/RalphRichardson as Watson. The show was co-produced with ABC Radio which meant that Creator/OrsonWelles guest-starred as Professor Moriarty.
** Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley played Holmes and Watson in over 80 different dramas from 1952 to 1969.
* Blackstone Audio's The Hollywood Theatre of the Ear did a boxset called ''Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Theater'' which featured Creator/MartinJarvis as Holmes and Kristoffer Tabori as Watson. It featured two classic stage adaptions of Holmes: William Gillette's ''Sherlock Holmes'', which also featured Creator/TonyJay as Professor Moriarty, Doyle's own adaption of ''The Speckled Band'', and an original parody by Yuri Rasovsky entitled ''Ghastly Double Murder in Famed Detective's Flat''.
* Creator/BigFinish, most famous for their extensive range of ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audio plays]], have been producing a series of Sherlock Holmes dramas. Besides the regular series, set between canon stories, one is set during Holmes' elderly years after the passing of Dr. Watson, one is a metafictional tale in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Professor Moriarty conspire against Holmes, and another pits Holmes against UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. The Great Detective is played by Roger Llewellyn (in his old age) and Creator/NicholasBriggs (in the regular episodes). Briggs' Holmes has also met the Creator/BigFinish version of [[AudioPlay/TheConfessionsOfDorianGray Dorian Gray]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresAllConsumingFire the Doctor himself]].
* A very abridged 2017 adaptation of ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' from indie Canadian audio production company Bleak December, with Creator/DerekJacobi as Holmes.
* {{Creator/Amazon}}'s audiobook service Audible, has produced several Holmes-based audio plays in recent years:
** ''Sherlock Holmes: The Voice of Treason'' (2020), an original tale by Creator/GeorgeMann and Cavan Scott, with Nicholas Boulton as Holmes and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as Watson.
** A 2021 adaptation of ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' also by Mann and Scott. Stars Creator/ColinSalmon as Holmes, Creator/StephenFry as Watson and Creator/MeeraSyal as CanonForeigner Mother Greep.
** ''[[Radio/TheDevilsGame Moriarty: The Devil's Game]]'' (2022). A 10-episode scripted podcast by Charles Kindinger depicting Moriarty as an innocent mathematics professor, who becomes a fugitive after being falsely accused of murder. The production stars Creator/DominicMonaghan as Moriarty, Creator/BillyBoyd as Colonel Sebastian Moran and Creator/PhilLamarr as Sherlock Holmes, with Creator/AdamGodley as Dr. Watson, Creator/CurtisArmstrong as Inspector Gregson, Josh Robert Thompson as Inspector Lestrade, and Creator/RebeccaMader as Mary Watson.
** ''The Baker Street Four'' (2023). An adaptation of the graphic novel series by Olivier Legrand, J.B. Djian, and David Etien. Starring Creator/PatersonJoseph as Holmes and Creator/BillNighy as Watson the cat.
* ''Sherlock & Co.,'' released in 2023 by Goalhanger Productions, provides a SettingUpdate to the modern day and reimagines Watson as a true crime podcaster.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
[[index]]
* ''TabletopGame/SherlockHolmesConsultingDetective''
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/TheSecretOfSherlockHolmes''
* ''Theatre/SherlockHolmes'', 1899 play written by and starring William Gillette. It featured an original plot. Years later, Creator/OrsonWelles would adapt the play for ''The Mercury Radio Theater'' with the explanation that, "It is not enough to say that William Gillette looks like Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes looks ''exactly'' like William Gillette." It was Gillette, and not Doyle, who popularized most of the visual tropes associated with the character to this day such as the deerstalker cap, the distinctive pipe and riding cloak. His iconic attire was originally depicted by Sidney Paget, who illustrated the stories for their initial publication in ''Strand Magazine'', but he only put Holmes in them in appropriate situations: when the story took him out of London, and into the countryside.
* ''Theatre/TheSpeckledBand'' - adapted by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself.
* ''Theatre/TheCruciferOfBlood'' - An adaptation by Paul Giovanni which was based on ''The Sign of Four''. It was made into a TV movie in 1991 featuring Creator/CharltonHeston as Sherlock Holmes (he had played the role previously in an LA production of the play, and Creator/JeremyBrett was his Watson).
* Starting in 1988, Creator/JeremyBrett and his second Watson, Edward Hardwicke, starred in a stage production titled ''Theatre/TheSecretOfSherlockHolmes''. It was written by Jeremy Paul, who scripted many episodes of [[Series/SherlockHolmes the Granada Television series.]]
* Charles Marowitz's black comedy ''Sherlock's Last Case,'' in which Watson has been so DrivenToMadness by Holmes' nastiness that he tries to murder him. [[spoiler: That goes so badly that poor Watson is DrivenToSuicide instead.]]
* There have been several Holmes musicals over the years, including:
** ''Baker Street'' (1965, music by Marian Grudeff, Raymond Jessel and Jerry Bock, lyrics by Grudeff, Jessel and Sheldon Harnick, book by Jerome Coopersmith)
** ''Sherlock Holmes: The Musical'' aka ''The Revenge of Sherlock Holmes'' (1988, music and lyrics by Creator/LeslieBricusse)
** ''Sherlock: The Musical'' (2022, music and lyrics by Denning Burton, book by Burton and Stefan van de Graaff)
** ''Sherlock Holmes and the Poisonwood'' (2024, music by Ben Glasstone, book by P Burton-Morgan, lyrics by Burton-Morgan and Glasstone)
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* Three Sherlock Holmes games were released on the Famicom, but none of them outside Japan:
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesHakushakuReijouYuukaiJiken'' (1986) ("The Case of the Kidnapped Countess"), an action-adventure game which wasn't received well.
** ''VideoGame/MeitanteiHolmesKiriNoLondonSatsujinJiken'' (1988) ("The Great Detective Holmes: The Murder Case in Foggy London") an adventure game.
** ''MeitanteiHolmesMKaraNoChousenjou'' (1989) ("The Great Detective Holmes: M's Challenge"), an adventure game.
* ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesConsultingDetective'' was released for PC, [=TurboDuo=], CTDV and Sega CD in the early '90s, as part of the FullMotionVideo craze that gripped gaming after the introduction of the CD-ROM format.
* ''VideoGame/{{Sherlock|1984}}'' (1984): An InteractiveFiction game.
* ''VideoGame/SherlockTheRiddleOfTheCrownJewels'' (1988): One of the last InteractiveFiction games produced by Creator/{{Infocom}}, in which the player takes the role of Watson.
* ''VideoGame/TheLostFilesOfSherlockHolmes'', published by Creator/ElectronicArts, sadly limited to two adventures (''The Case of the Serrated Scalpel'' and ''The Case of the Rose Tattoo'') were released in the 1990s to portray two Holmes cases [[{{Kayfabe}} considered "too hot to show"]].
* Since 2002, the company Frogwares has been developing a series of Sherlock Holmes puzzle/adventure games based on the original books as well as including various crossovers with other series. As of 2021, the main titles in the series are:
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesTheMysteryOfTheMummy''
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesSecretOfTheSilverEarring''
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesTheAwakened'' -- a crossover with the Franchise/CthulhuMythos
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesVersusArseneLupin'' -- a crossover with Maurice Leblanc's Arsène Lupin stories, themselves a parody of Sherlock Holmes mysteries
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesVersusJackTheRipper''
** ''VideoGame/TheTestamentOfSherlockHolmes''
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesCrimesAndPunishments''
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesTheDevilsDaughter''
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesChapterOne'' -- Holmes' origin story prior to meeting Watson
* ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'' [[note]]Applies only to the Japanese version. The Western version [[WritingAroundTrademarks altered the names of all the Holmes-related elements]] due to not being a PublicDomainCharacter in all countries.[[/note]]
* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' is an unusual example - while he's not ''the'' focus character, Holmes is introduced as a major character in the game's sixth story chapter and joins the main cast, regardless of the player's status in obtaining him as a playable Ruler-class "Servant" party member, in the course of the ''Epic of Remnant'' expansion and the Cosmos in the Lostbelt arc. [[spoiler:James Moriarty makes a similar debut in the first ''[=EoR=]'' chapter as an Archer-class Servant and makes further appearances later on.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Crimesight}}'' (2022): An online co-op mystery simulation game by Creator/{{Konami}} where four players get to play as an A.I. based on Sherlock, Watson, Irene and Moriarty.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* While the actual storyline itself never came to fruition, Erin confirms that Sherlock Holmes is part of the ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow'' canon: Watson had wrote a book about a time when he and Sherlock crossed paths with [[Manga/PetShopOfHorrors Count D]], but he shelved it because he knew no one would believe it due to the more supernatural elements and he wanted to be taken seriously as an author. However, the manuscript survived in some fashion, as Integra had been told it as a bedtime story.
* ''Webcomic/SignsOfThree'', a webcomic adaptation updating the stories to contemporary times, adding more diversity and LGBT themes whilst simultaneously putting a modern twist on things. Currently on one finished book, ''A Study of Scarlett'' (''Literature/AStudyInScarlet''), with the second, ''Fangs of Sussex'' (''The Sussex Vampire'') having just begun.
* ''Webcomic/WhateverRemains'' is a webcomic adaptation set in the 1920s.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'', a 1999 AnimatedAdaptation of Holmes RecycledINSPACE!
* "[[Recap/BraveStarrS1E53SherlockHolmesInThe23rdCenturyPart1 Sherlock Holmes]] [[Recap/BraveStarrS1E54SherlockHolmesInThe23rdCenturyPart2 in the 23rd Century]]", a two-part episode of the 1987 series ''WesternAnimation/BraveStarr''
* Holmes and Watson appeared in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''. During their time, Jason Blood tried (and failed) to bring Batman to that time but Holmes completed the spell. Holmes was soon able to deduce Batman must have been born to some doctor or at least a wealthy man.
* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockYack'' is another AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation.
* Sherlock, Watson and Lestrade appeared in few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/OrsonAndOlivia''.
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A number of films were made (Holmes has appeared in more films than any other single fictional character), some of which took a number of liberties with the story:
* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_Baffled Sherlock Holmes Baffled]]'', a 1900 silent film which lasts 30 seconds. Considered the earliest known detective movie due to Holmes's presence, even though the film was probably named so just for sake of using a famous name, and the character in the short has little to do with Holmes and doesn't do any detective work.
* The 1916 silent film ''Sherlock Holmes'', starring William Gillette in the title role.
* Creator/BasilRathbone and Nigel Bruce starred as Holmes and Watson in a popular series of film adaptations in the 1930s and 1940s. The first two ("The Hound of the Baskervilles" and "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes") were produced by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox and were based on, respectively, the Doyle novel and the William Gillette play; both were set in the Victorian era. The others, produced by Creator/{{Universal}}, moved the setting to the 1940s. Initially, Holmes and Watson fought ThoseWackyNazis, but they later went up against more conventional crooks. Bruce's portrayal of Watson as a bumbling incompetent rather than the original ladykilling man of action helped begin a long chain of similar adaptations.
* The 1932 Czech comedy Lelíček ve službách Sherlocka Holmese (Lelíček in the service of Sherlock Homes) combines Sherlock Holmes with Literature/ThePrisonerOfZenda. Holmes is hired by the Prime Minister of Portorico to find a double for their weak and cowardly king Fernando XXIII. Holmes finds Lelíček, a streetwise dept-plagued man from Prague (played by Czech comedy legend Vlasta Burian). Then, while Holmes dismatles a conspiracy against the king, Lelíček manages to survive several attempts at "king's" live and falls in love with the queen.
* In the 1937 German comedy adventure ''Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war'' (The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes), two unsuccessful private detectives (Hans Albers and Heinz Rühmann) decide to drum up interest by dressing up as Holmes and Watson. They are met with great deference everywhere, solve the theft of valuable stamps, but are put on trial for impersonation, where they insist that they told everybody that they ''weren't'' Holmes and Watson. Conan Doyle is shown laughing his head off in the courtroom audience and mentioning that Holmes and Watson are fictional characters he invented, which means the movie must be set before 1930.
* Film/HammerHorror adapted ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' in 1959 starring Creator/PeterCushing as Holmes, André Morell as Watson and Creator/ChristopherLee as Sir Henry Baskerville. It was supposed to be the first in a series of films, but disappointing box office returns dashed those hopes.
* The 1970 film ''Film/ThePrivateLifeOfSherlockHolmes'', directed by Creator/BillyWilder.
* ''Film/TheAdventureOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother'', released in 1975, was Creator/GeneWilder's directorial debut. It follows Sherlock's (self-proclaimed) smarter younger brother Siegerson, who attempts to thwart Moriarty on his own.
* A deleted scene in the Creator/NeilSimon Detective Movie parody ''Film/MurderByDeath'' features Holmes and Watson showing up late for the gathering. [[EditedForSyndication Edited For Television]] versions of the film generally restore the cameo.
* 1978's ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' starring Creator/DudleyMoore and Creator/PeterCook is one of the ''worst films ever made''. Available to watch on Netflix Watch Instantly, it is a stunningly bad comedy with the entire soundtrack consisting of Moore idly noodling on a piano.
* 1979, ''Film/MurderByDecree'' starring Creator/ChristopherPlummer as Holmes and Creator/JamesMason as (a Non-Flanderized) Watson on UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper case. The basis for the plot was the book ''Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution'' by Stephen Knight, the same book that would be the basis for Creator/AlanMoore's ''Comicbook/FromHell'' some years later. It was seen by some as a DarkerAndEdgier Sherlock Holmes movie but, given the subject matter, it's understandable. This was the second time Holmes and the Ripper met; the first time was in the 1966 movie ''A Study in Terror''.
* In the 1985 Levinson/Spielberg/Columbus movie ''Film/YoungSherlockHolmes'', a teenaged Holmes and Watson meet at a boarding school decades prior to their adult companionship. (Unusual in that it began with a disclaimer explaining that it was a "WhatIf" story.)
* In the 1988 movie ''Film/WithoutAClue'' the Holmes/Watson roles are reversed, with Watson (Creator/BenKingsley) as the real detective and Holmes (Creator/MichaelCaine) as an alcoholic actor hired by Watson as his public front.
* In perhaps the most unusual adaptation, there is the 1971 movie ''Film/{{They Might Be Giants|1971}}'' (from which [[Music/TheyMightBeGiants the band]] took its name), which starred Creator/GeorgeCScott as a man who thought he was Sherlock Holmes, and Joanne Woodward as his psychiatrist, whose name was Watson. The film itself took its name from a line in Don Quixote.
* A 1986 Soviet comedy called ''Film/MyDearlyBelovedDetective''. Not quite an adaptation, since Holmes and Watson are stated to be fictional in-story. However, [[DistaffCounterpart two ladies with the last names of Holmes and Watson decide to enter the business]]...
* The 1998 film ''Film/ZeroEffect'' is a modern-dress US adaptation of "A Scandal in Bohemia", with the Holmes and Watson figures renamed Daryl Zero (Creator/BillPullman) and Steve Arlo (Creator/BenStiller). Despite the name changes, the plot and characters are instantly recognizable.
* 2002 saw an adaptation of ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' which played up Holmes's addiction. It featured Creator/RichardRoxburgh (then best known as the Duke in ''Film/MoulinRouge'') as Holmes and Creator/IanHart (Professor Quirrell in ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone''; he would later reprise the role in ''Silk Stocking'') as Watson, and introduced several changes to the story: Dr. Mortimer was much OlderAndWiser than in the book, his wife is a believer in the supernatural and holds a party that is ''very'' important to the plot, Selden becomes an AscendedExtra, and [[spoiler: Beryl Stapleton is murdered by her husband Roger aka the BigBad.]]
* ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'', a movie directed by Creator/GuyRitchie with Creator/RobertDowneyJr. as Holmes and Creator/JudeLaw as Watson released on Christmas Day. Response to the trailer, [[NeverTrustATrailer which basically strung the comedic moments together]] to make it look more like a spoof than an actual Holmes story, was... controversial... in fandom. The movie received mostly positive reviews, and critics praised Downey Jr's portrayal as the detective (for which he won a Golden Globe) and the chemistry between him and Law. And it was a box-office hit. A sequel to this film, titled ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'', came to theaters in December 2011 with Jared Harris as Professor Moriarty and Creator/StephenFry as Mycroft Holmes.
* Creator/TheAsylum released ''Film/SirArthurConanDoylesSherlockHolmes'' directly to DVD in 2010 to piggyback on the Ritchie film. Starring Ben Syder as Holmes and Gareth David-Lloyd as Watson. It's {{Steampunk}} and involves dinosaurs.
* ''Film/MrHolmes'', a 2015 film based on the novel ''A Slight Trick of the Mind'', follows a 93-year-old Holmes who becomes determined to solve the decades-old mystery that drove him into retirement before his slowly deteriorating mind fails him completely. Creator/IanMcKellen plays Holmes.
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* Adrian Conan Doyle (son of Arthur Conan Doyle) and Creator/JohnDicksonCarr (Doyle's biographer and friend) wrote a series of short stories called ''The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes'', supposedly the accounts of the cases that Watson mentioned but never made it to the original 56 short stories. Some consider it canon, for being written by Arthur Conan Doyle's son, and treat it as the tenth volume of Sherlock Holmes canon, but many more don't for the obvious fact that it wasn't written or approved by Arthur Conan Doyle (it was written and published after his death) and it was co-written by an unrelated author. Sequels were expected but never produced, mainly because the authors got in a dispute over who wrote what.
* Nicholas Meyer's novel (later adapted to film), ''Literature/TheSevenPercentSolution'' proposed that the Moriarty stories were complete fictions invented by Watson to cover for Holmes's recovery from cocaine addiction. (This was to explain the canon's apparent contradiction of Moriarty dying in the story that ''introduced'' him, yet figuring in other prequel stories.) In the story, Moriarty is revealed as Holmes's childhood maths tutor, whom Holmes had cast as a criminal in his drug-induced delirium. The story ends with a departing Holmes suggesting that Watson explain his absence to the readers by telling them he'd been murdered by his math tutor.
* Laurie R. King's ''Literature/MaryRussell'' series takes place in the 1910s-20s. The title character, a young woman who comes to live on the Sussex Downs after being orphaned in a car accident, meets the retired Holmes there and becomes first his protege and later his wife.
* Robert L. Fish's ridiculously pun-packed Schlock Homes stories...where to begin...
** Some titles of stories: "The Adventure of the Printer's Inc.", "The Adventure of the Spectacled Band" (there is a Holmes adventure of the ''speckled'' band), "The Adventure of the Snared Drummer", "The Adventure of the Perforated Ulster", "The Adventure of the Dog in the Knight", "The Adventure of the Artist's Mottle"
** Watney's first paragraph of "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarters":
--> "My notes for the early part of the year '65 contain several instances of more than passing interest for those who follow the adventures of my friend Mr. Schlock Homes. There was, for example, his brilliant solution to the mysterious gunning down of a retired boilermaker, a case which I find listed as ''The Adventure of the Shot and the Bier''; and there is also reference to the intriguing business of the hitchhiking young actress, noted in my journal as ''The Adventure of the Ingenue's Thumb''." (There's a Holmes adventure of the ''engineer's'' thumb.)
* The ''Literature/EnolaHolmes'' series by Nancy Springer, which depicts the adventures of the much younger sister of Sherlock. On top of each mystery, the overall plot arc is the eventual reconciliation of the Holmes siblings as Enola finds that she is a match for her brother in every way for her age and Sherlock learns to admire his brilliant sister as a professional colleague. It has [[Film/EnolaHolmes a film adaptation]] released on Netflix in 2020, starring Creator/MillieBobbyBrown as the titular main character and Creator/HenryCavill as the great detective himself.
* Creator/MichaelChabon's 2004 novella ''Literature/TheFinalSolution'', in which Holmes (never named directly, but it is clearly him), a 90ish old man living in country retirement as a beekeeper, tries to locate a German Jewish boy's stolen parrot.
* Andrew Lane's ''Literature/YoungSherlockHolmes'' series (not to be confused with the movie of the same name), chronicling a [[TeenGenius teenage Sherlock's]] adventures. These stand to be the only teen novels endorsed by the Doyle Estate.
** As Andy Lane, he'd earlier written ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresAllConsumingFire All-Consuming Fire]]'', a Literature/{{Doctor Who New Adventure|s}} crossing Holmes over with the Doctor, Ace and Benny. It was later adapted by Creator/BigFinish, who also made it a ''de facto'' crossover with their own regular Sherlock Holmes series, mentioned below.
* ''Literature/BasilOfBakerStreet'', later adapted by Creator/{{Disney}} as ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''. A FunnyAnimal version of the mythos, and many a child's first exposure to Sherlock Holmes. Basil's name is an obvious ShoutOut to Creator/BasilRathbone. In the film, Rathbone himself even has a vocal cameo (albeit one well after his death) as Holmes himself.
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmesOfBakerStreet'', a popular tongue-in-cheek "biography" of Sherlock Holmes written in 1962 by W.S. Baring-Gould, has been the source of many interesting theories about Holmes, some of which are often assumed to be canon (even in this very entry). These include the idea that the King of Bohemia was Edward [=VII=]; that Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler became lovers in Montenegro during the time Holmes was hiding from Moran, and that Irene returned to New Jersey to bear his child, a boy later known as Literature/NeroWolfe [[note]]This was actually suggested to him by Creator/RexStout, the writer of the Nero Wolfe novels, but given that Stout once wrote a paper suggesting that Watson was a woman...[[/note]]; that Holmes in his twenties was a stage actor in a company that toured America; that he worked on the UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper case; that Watson had three wives; that Holmes's bee-keeping in later years was intended as a way of producing royal jelly, then thought of as a "fountain of youth"; and that Holmes died in the 1950s after spending the war years - when he would have been roughly 90 years old - fighting Nazis. In ''Film/TheAdventureOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother'', the title character, Siegerson, is named for Baring-Gould's Holmes ''pere''. As a way of freeing up Sherlock and Mycroft for their various occupations while still ensuring they were members of the "right" class, Baring-Gould invented Sherringford, the eldest--and smartest--brother, who stayed home in Yorkshire to take care of the responsibilities of a country squire. Sherringford was Holmes's original name in Doyle's first draft of ''A Study in Scarlet''.
* ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheDurbervilles'' by Creator/KimNewman focuses on Professor Moriarty and his subordinate, Sebastian Moran, as they share a series of adventures that oddly echo Holmes's famous cases and have them meeting [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover numerous other characters from Victorian and Edwardian fiction]]. The last story in the collection, "The Problem of the Final Adventure", retells "The Final Problem" from Moran's point of view.
** Titan Books, Newman's publisher, has an ongoing series of Holmes pastiches.
* ''Trouble in Bugland: A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries'' is Sherlock Holmes in "Bugland," where everyone is an insect. Holmes is Inspector Mantis, a praying mantis, and Watson is Doctor Hopper.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/TimePatrol'', the Victorian era office would like to hire a contemporary detective, but the only one clever enough is probably clever enough to figure out the Time Patrol. Other clues make it clear who this unnamed detective is.
* ''Literature/TheHouseOfSilk'', by Creator/AnthonyHorowitz, follows two crimes that end up closely linked, one where a family is being hounded by an American gang boss and another where Holmes searches for the elusive House of Silk. Notable in that it's the first novel that the Conan Doyle Estate has endorsed.
** Horowitz has since published a follow-up, ''Literature/{{Moriarty}}'', which begins immediately after the encounter at Reichenbach Falls.
* ''The Holmes/Dracula Files'' by Fred Saberhagen, a {{Crossover}} novel that's pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin; Sherlock Holmes meets {{Dracula}}. Also used to explain [[NoodleIncident The Giant Rat of Sumatra]].
* Brazilian TV personality Jô Soares (a veteran TV comedian, now known for his Creator/DavidLetterman-style talk show) wrote a book titled "O Xangô de Baker Street". In that book, Holmes was described as knowing the Portuguese language, which helped him since he went to Brazil to try to figure out the identity of a serial killer. His portrayal in that book had him misinterpret clues. He [[spoiler:failed, which was attributed to his lack of knowledge of how musical notes were known in Brazil. The culprit, whose identity was revealed to the readers, moved to England and was implied to be UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper]].
* ''[[Literature/DustAndShadow Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson]]'', by Lyndsay Faye. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* ''Bert Coules'', the writer who set out to dramatize the entire canon for BBC radio, also wrote 15 dramatizations of his own, available from the BBC as ''The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes''.
* Contained in Creator/StephenKing's short-fiction collection ''Literature/NightmaresAndDreamscapes'' is the Sherlock Holmes pastiche "The Doctor's Case." A shipping magnate has been murdered in what Lestrade describes as "the perfect locked-room mystery"; Holmes and Watson investigate, and the solution takes an unusual and surprising turn.
* Denis O. Smith's ''The Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes'' is twelve new cases from Holmes' early years, in a fair imitation of Doyle's style.
* Creator/MichaelKurland's Moriarty novels, beginning with ''Literature/TheInfernalDevice'', are a PerspectiveFlip in which Moriarty is the protagonist.
* Donald Thomas has published multiple short stories and novella pastiches featuring Holmes and Watson, most recently ''The Execution of Sherlock Holmes and Other New Adventures of the Great Detective.''
* Loren D. Estleman has published crossover novels featuring Holmes meeting up with Literature/{{Dracula}} and [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Jekyll and Hyde.]]
* In the early 2000s, David Pirie wrote three novels featuring Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph Bell as the detectives. Although the novels are self-enclosed, the larger plot arc remains [[OrphanedSeries unfinished.]]
* Michael Dibdin's take on Sherlock Holmes and UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, ''The Last Sherlock Holmes Story.'' [[spoiler: Holmes ''is'' Jack. He's also Moriarty.]]
* Creator/ManlyWadeWellman wrote one short story in which a by-then elderly Holmes and Watson stop a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi agent]] from setting up an invasion of England in 1940. He also wrote a novel in which Sherlock, Watson, and Sherlock's cousin Literature/ProfessorChallenger help to stop [[AlienInvasion the War of the Worlds]]. Rather disliked by some fans for setting up a romance between Holmes and Mrs. Hudson.
* Robert Ryan has three novels and a forthcoming collection of short stories in which the primary detective is Watson, not Holmes. They're set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
* Creator/NeilGaiman's 2003 story ''Literature/AStudyInEmerald'' puts Sherlock Holmes characters in a Franchise/CthulhuMythos setting, where the Earth is ruled by the Great Old Ones.
** Gaiman's other short story ''Literature/TheCaseOfDeathAndHoney'' ties together Sherlock's post-retirement bee-keeping and the canon GenreShift story ''The Adventure Of the Creeping Man'', portraying an elderly Sherlock trying to find a source of eternal youth.
* Bob Garcia's novels (for some reason they don't appear to be translated into English as of 2016, although they are available in a few other languages). A fair deal more horror than canon.
* G. S. Denning's ''Warlock Holmes'' series is an AffectionateParody of the canon, in which Holmes is a CloudCuckooLander wizard [[Really700YearsOld over two centuries old]] whose mind is [[DemonicPossession filled with demons]], Watson is the actual brains of the outfit and (usually) OnlySaneMan, and Lestrade is a vampire.
* The ''Inspector Lestrade'' series by M. J. Trow, portraying him as a skilled detective who is very irritated that John Watson chose to make him look like an idiot to make Holmes look good. The end of the third volume reveals [[spoiler: that during a rest cure in the Swiss Alps, Holmes murdered a certain professor of mathematics under the impression the man was ''Watson''.]]
* ''Two Hundred and Twenty One Baker Streets'' is an anthology of stories re-imagining Holmes in many different times and places, from 17th century Scotland and 1970s New York to contemporary South Africa and a robot-populated far future.
* Keisuke Matsuoka's ''Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Japan'' has Holmes going to Japan after defeating Moriarty in Reichenbach Falls and investigating a scandal that would ruin the fragile relations between the Meiji-era Japan and the Tsarist Russia. He also teams up with Hirobumi Ito, the first Prime Minister of Japan.
* James Lovegrove's ''The Cthulhu Casebooks'' trilogy which is a crossover between Holmes and the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
* Former NBA legend, Creator/KareemAbdulJabbar, wrote a book series about Sherlock's older brother, Mycroft Holmes.
* Michael Hardwick (who had previously adapted one Holmes story for radio and two for television, and written the novelization of the film ''The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'') wrote two Holmes novels, ''The Prisoner of the Devil'' (1979, in which Holmes is called in to investigate the Dreyfuss Affair) and ''The Revenge of the Hound'' (1987, in which Holmes investigates a supposed return of the Hound of the Baskervilles). He later wrote ''The Private Life of Dr. Watson'', Watson's memoirs of his life before meeting Holmes, and Holmes' own memoirs, ''Sherlock Holmes: My Life and Crimes''.
* Leonard Goldberg is writing the ''Daughter of Sherlock Holmes'' series, about the adventures of Joanne Blalock - the illegitimate daughter of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler (the result of an unintended drug-induced one night stand rather than any sort of romance) - and John Watson, Jr in 1914 London.
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[[folder:Notable audiobook readers]]
There have numerous audiobook recordings of both the original canon, and various pastiches. Here is a list of some of the most prolific, notable, or more highly regarded performers:
* Creator/BasilRathbone (Recorded 5 selected Doyle stories for Caedmon Records in the 1960s, subsequently re-released by {{HarperColins}} Audio in 2008)
* Creator/PeterCushing (Recorded ''The Return of Sherlock Holmes'' for the Royal National Institute for the Blind in 1971. Was widely commercially released in 2011 by Cosmic Hobo Productions.)
* Douglas Wilmer (Narrated selected Doyle stories for Penguin Audio in 1997)
* Creator/BenedictCumberbatch (Narrated John Taylor's ''Sherlock Holmes' Rediscovered Railway Mysteries & other stories'' for {{AudioGo}}/BBC Audio)
* {{Creator/Ian McKellen}} (Narrated ''Literature/TheValleyOfFear'' for BBC Audio)
* Creator/ChristopherLee (Narrated ''The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes'' for Harper Audio in the 1990s; re-released in the 2000s)
* Creator/DerekJacobi (Narrated the Doyle canon for {{AudioGo}}, and Creator/AnthonyHorowitz's ''Literature/TheHouseOfSilk'')
* Edward Hardwicke (Narrated selected Doyle stories for CSA Telltapes Ltd./The Audio Partners Publishing Corp; subsequently re-released by {{AudioGo}} and BBC Audio over the years)
* Creator/StephenFry (Narrated the entire Doyle canon for Audible, also wrote and read introductions for each story)
* Creator/TimCurry (Narrated Creator/StephenKing's ''The Doctor's Case'')
* Simon Vance (Narrated the Doyle canon, and numerous pastiches including Lyndsay Faye's ''Literature/DustAndShadow'')
* David Timson (Narrated the complete Doyle canon for Naxos Audio)
* John Telfer (Narrated Donald Thomas's pastiches)
* Simon Prebble
* Walter Covell
* Jenny Sterlin (Narrated Laurie R. King's Literature/MaryRussell series)
* Katherine Kellgren (Narrated Nancy Springer's Literature/EnolaHolmes series)
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** ''Baker Street'' (1965, music by Marian Grudeff, Raymond Jessel and Jerry Bock, lyrics by Grudeff, Jessel and Sheldon Harnick, book by Jerome Coopersmith)
** ''Sherlock Holmes: The Musical'' aka ''The Revenge of Sherlock Holmes'' (1988, music and lyrics by Creator/LeslieBricusse)
** ''Sherlock: The Musical'' (2022, music and lyrics by Denning Burton, book by Burton and Stefan van de Graaff)
** ''Sherlock Holmes and the Poisonwood'' (2024, music by Ben Glasstone, book by P Burton-Morgan, lyrics by Burton-Morgan and Glasstone)
** ''Baker Street'' (1965, music by Marian Grudeff, Raymond Jessel and Jerry Bock, lyrics by Grudeff, Jessel and Sheldon Harnick, book by Jerome Coopersmith)
** ''Sherlock Holmes: The Musical'' aka ''The Revenge of Sherlock Holmes'' (1988, music and lyrics by Creator/LeslieBricusse)
** ''Sherlock: The Musical'' (2022, music and lyrics by Denning Burton, book by Burton and Stefan van de Graaff)
** ''Sherlock Holmes and the Poisonwood'' (2024, music by Ben Glasstone, book by P Burton-Morgan, lyrics by Burton-Morgan and Glasstone)
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Throughout the stories, only one person ever refers to Holmes as "Sherlock", and that's his brother. Nearly everyone else, even Watson, calls him "Holmes" or "''Mister'' Holmes". This is normal for Victorian and Edwardian England; at the time, men would only use a first name to address family members, romantic partners (and you had to be all-but-engaged), junior servants, or children[[note]]women ''might'' use first names alone for each other, but only if they were the closest of friends[[/note]].friends -- e.g. [[Literature/PrideAndPrejudice Elizabeth Bennet and Charlotte Lucas]][[/note]]. One minor character in "The Sign of Four" refers to him as "Mister Sherlock", which, in context, implied that he'd known Holmes since boyhood. Additionally, this is updated and [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] in the 2011 Ritchie sequel, where Mycroft calls his brother "[[GenderBlenderName Sherly]]" on a number of occasions.
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* ''Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota'' series places Sherlock and Watson in Minnesota, working with [[RailroadBaron James J. Hill]] to solve crimes. Many historic characters such as [[UsefulNotes/JohnWilkesBooth Boston Corbett]] and incidents are included.
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Holmes had a number of well-known [[CatchPhrase catch phrases]]: {{catch phrase}}s: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth", "The game's afoot" (itself a quote from Creator/{{Shakespeare}}'s ''Theatre/HenryV''), "ThePlotThickens", and, most famously, "Elementary, my dear Watson" (which Holmes [[BeamMeUpScotty never actually said]] in any of Doyle's stories).
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* ''Literature/TheEmpireOfCorpses'' has Watson as the main character and is still a medical student. In this story, he is tasked by the British government to retrieve Victor Frankenstein's notes which are the key to obtaining the souls of the dead.
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* ''Literature/TheEmpireOfCorpses'' has Watson as the main character and is still a medical student. In this story, he is tasked by the British government to retrieve Victor Frankenstein's notes which are the key to obtaining the souls of the dead.
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* ''Anime/SherlockHound'', an {{Anime}} adaptation that recast the characters as {{Funny Animal}}s and aired in 1984 and 1985.
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* ''Anime/SherlockHound'', an {{Anime}} {{anime}} adaptation that recast the characters as {{Funny Animal}}s and aired in 1984 and 1985.
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* ''Literature/TheEmpireOfCorpses'' has Watson as the main character and is still a medical student. In this story, he is tasked by the British government to retrieve Victor Frankenstein's notes which are the key to obtaining the souls of the dead.
* ''Literature/TheEmpireOfCorpses'' has Watson as the main character and is still a medical student. In this story, he is tasked by the British government to retrieve Victor Frankenstein's notes which are the key to obtaining the souls of the dead.
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* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmesAndDoctorWatson'' (1979-1983). A [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet]] series in Russian-language notable for ''not'' [[{{Flanderization}} flanderizing]] Watson into an idiot, being a generally faithful AdaptationDistillation and for the fact that the actor playing Holmes got an Order of the British Empire for his portrayal (surprisingly for a Soviet citizen). It's also provided fodder for a lot of [[RussianHumor Russian jokes]] (but then again, what doesn't?).
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* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmesAndDoctorWatson'' (1979-1983). A [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet]] series in Russian-language Russian language notable for ''not'' [[{{Flanderization}} flanderizing]] Watson into an idiot, being a generally faithful AdaptationDistillation and for the fact that the actor playing Holmes got an Order of the British Empire for his portrayal (surprisingly for a Soviet citizen). It's also provided fodder for a lot of [[RussianHumor Russian jokes]] (but then again, what doesn't?).
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* ''Literature/UndeadGirlMurderFarce'': Alongside other VictorianLondon characters, Holmes and Watson appear and play a major role in the second arc. Moriarty serves as the novels' overarching BigBad, who in this version does not have a close relationship with Holmes.
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* ''Sherlock Holmes: The Golden Years'' was a duology of miniseries featuring Creator/ChristopherLee as the fifty-six-year-old Holmes and Creator/PatrickMacnee as the fifty-eight-year-old Watson. The two miniseries included ''Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady'' and ''Incident at Victoria Falls'' and featured appearances by historical domain characters such as Sigmund Freud, Elliot Ness, Lillie Langtry, Theodore Roosevelt and, an appearance by A. J. Raffles, the famed creation of Doyle's brother-in-law E. W. Hornung.
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* ''Series/TheRivalsOfSherlockHolmes'' (1971, 1973) mentions Holmes by name in the title but is actually an anthology of ''other'' fictional detectives of the same period.
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* ''Film/SherlockHolmes1922'', a.k.a ''Moriarty'', adapted from the play, ''Theatre/SherlockHolmes''.
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* ''Film/SherlockHolmes1922'', a.k.a ''Moriarty'', adapted from the play, ''Theatre/SherlockHolmes''.
