I like sherlock holmes books read them at least 15 times.

I listen to the audiobooks and podcasts my stack ranking is

1. David Timson Readings

2. Stephen Fry - Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Audio Collection

3. Hugh Bonneville BBC/Noiser - Sherlock Holmes the Short Stories

4. Sherlock & Co. BBC Sounds and Goal Hanger Podcasts

There are other audiobooks around but I can't recommend them. Anthony Horowitz, Sarah J Naughton Becoming Sherlock and a few others

ETA This post was more about enabling discovery than attempting an agreed ranking. My goodness I'd forgotten the Clive Merrison version on the BBC - in my ranking that would be in at number 0. Those episodes were the first and in some sense the best. My two test stories for a reading and interpretation are the "The Reigate Squire" and "His Last Bow" story. Timson does those perfectly.

De gustibus non est disputandum, or de gustibus non disputandum est, "In matters of taste, there can be no disputes"

“The surprise was not all on one side, I assure you. I had no idea that you had found my occasional retreat, still less that you were inside it, until I was within twenty paces of the door.”

“My footprint, I presume?”

“No, Watson, I fear that I could not undertake to recognize your footprint amid all the footprints of the world."

That doesn't make sense to me. Holmes relies on footmarks since the very first story. Surely he knows Watson's shoes better than those of anyone else? In those days shoes were custom made, but even if a generic pattern, how likely would it be that someone wearing Watson-type shoes just happened to be up there?

Source material is A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes by Peter Bevelin

They are right now on sale, and I can get one of them, so I want to get the best one.

I recently bought this humongous thing for 15 bucks. It's near mint. Was it worth it or I could've get something better?

Just finished Sherlock Holmes and I’m once again blown away by Guy Ritchie’s directing. A Game of Shadows left Holmes alive and the door wide open for another instalment, so how did we never get a third film? This franchise deserved a proper trilogy under Ritchie. Anyone else still waiting for that third movie?

Greeting ye, I am definitely certain that little--if not simply none--are aware of this status, regarding the much-desired restorations of the three Stolls Films adaptations, since no pre-existing Reddit-post hither has noted such, and Google's search-engine procures no listings, announcements, nor remarks specifying of this. Nevertheless, let us prudently activate a temporary account--by means of a fourteen-day free-trial--and eagerly view this compiled trio which went unseen for over a century, so that we may behold whatever Sir Arthur witnessed which compelled him to acclaim Eille Norwood--an influence that in-turn inspired his eventual composition of the final Case-Book stories.

https://www.bfiplayerclassics.com/videos/silent-sherlock-three-classic-cases

Lo, ensure that ye not inadvertently neglect to cancel your subscriptions, before whoever's fourteenth-day (mine is the "30th of October").

~Waz

Some of the most memorable characters in the Canon aren’t Holmes’ opponents. They’re the people who arrive at Baker Street with a problem.
Helen Stoner in The Speckled Band, Violet Hunter in The Copper Beeches, Jabez Wilson in The Red-Headed League.

Each brings something different, whether it’s a genuinely puzzling problem, an unusual personality or a situation that draws us into the story.

A good client needs more than an interesting mystery, though. They need to make us care about what happens to them. Holmes may be fascinated by the puzzle, but it’s the client who gives the case its human interest.

So, who do you think is the best client in the Canon? And what makes them memorable; their personality, their predicament, or the mystery they bring to Holmes?

Movies from any era count.

Just wanted to do some training in portraiture with my favorite Holmes actor.

I mean, the coffin idea is hellish, was it not?

I’m referring to The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, of course.

Just wanted to if it's at par with Canon or not ? I wanted to buy it, but it costs around 2700 INR.

At the Reichenbach Falls, I found something I didn't expect. In a small exhibition corner by the viewing area at the top of the funicular, a screen loops one scene: the struggle at the falls from "Deadly Fight" (1980), the Soviet adaptation of "The Final Problem," with Vasily Livanov as Holmes and Viktor Yevgrafov as Moriarty.

That scene wasn't filmed in Switzerland. Lenfilm shot it at the Gega waterfall in the Caucasus (photo 2). Nikolai Vashchilin, who staged the fight, later wrote a first-person account of the shoot. The falls were still half-asleep after winter when the crew first came, and the most dramatic footage was shot after heavy rain. Livanov played the scene running a fever, and climbers threw Moriarty's dummy from above the falls.

What strikes me is how much freedom filmmakers have in staging this fight. In "The Final Problem," Doyle never shows the confrontation itself. Watson follows two lines of footmarks to the end of the path and finds: "There were none returning." The rest is his reconstruction.

So, two questions:

• Do you think Gega makes a convincing stand-in for Reichenbach?
• Which screen version of the struggle works best for you?

Photo 2 credit: By Vyacheslav Argenberg

I was looking through my old books when I found the first Sherlock Holmes book I had, a collection of 5 short stories: A Scandal in Bohemia, The Five Orange Pips, The Yellow Face, The Speckled Band and The Final Problem. I don't have any issue with A Scandal in Bohemia and The Speckled Band, but I've always felt like the rest are pretty odd choices, especially The Final Problem. I think there are way stronger stories for this to choose from, but maybe it's just me and this list completely fine. What's your opinion?

OK so I know some of these will be controversial to some (the right side, but tbf they did both best Sherlock) but this is NOT (exactly) SERIOUS. It's how I feel & I don't expect everyone, or even the majority to agree with me, but at the end of the day it's not that serious, esp b/c I'm pretty sure most of y'all don't have as strong of feelings about Irene as I do (A Scandal in Bohemia was the first Sherlock I read at 11 & I've loved her ever since.)

This is not slandering Lara Pulver - I think we can almost all agree that she was given a shit script and it says nothing about her acting (this was a misreading I got elsewhere which confused me - I thought that was obvious)

Personally, I feel Jeremy Brett has delivered one of the finest performances as the world's most popular fictional detective based on how he embodies the role and plays the character with such depth!

Last week I posted about the white star at the Reichenbach Falls (link to post). This is the rest of the journey, or at least the four places along it I've visited.

Photo 2 is the Meiringen trail panel that got me started. Here's Watson's route first, then how the panel compresses it.

The route in Watson's account

• London: Victoria and the Continental express, then off the train at Canterbury: "we should have to wait an hour before we could get a train to Newhaven." From there, "over to Dieppe."
• Brussels: "We made our way to Brussels that night and spent two days there, moving on upon the third day as far as Strasburg."
• Strasburg: "On the Monday morning Holmes had telegraphed to the London police, and in the evening we found a reply waiting for us at our hotel." Then: "the same night we had resumed our journey and were well on our way to Geneva."
• Switzerland: "For a charming week we wandered up the Valley of the Rhone, and then, branching off at Leuk, we made our way over the Gemmi Pass, still deep in snow, and so, by way of Interlaken, to Meiringen."

What I noticed

1. It doesn't start at Baker Street. Holmes turns up at Watson's consulting-room, and by then Baker Street has already been hit: "They set fire to our rooms last night. No great harm was done." So photo 1 is less the starting point than the scene of the crime the night before.

2. The trail panel compresses the route. Panel 2 in Meiringen (photo 2) summarises it as a train from Victoria to Newhaven, a steamer to France, then a train to Geneva. The Canterbury change folds neatly into one sentence, but Brussels and Strasburg drop out, along with the telegram that tells Holmes Moriarty has escaped. From Geneva onward, the Swiss part follows Watson closely.

A small bonus: the railway carriage on the panel is Paget's drawing for "Silver Blaze" ("Holmes gave me a sketch of the events", Strand, December 1892), borrowed for the occasion.

3. Watson tells us nothing about what they did in Brussels, so rather than guess, I photographed what was already standing in April 1891:

• St Michael and St Gudula (photo 3). Towers finished in 1485. In 1891 it was still a collegiate church; it only became a cathedral in 1962.
• The Bourse (photo 4), completed in 1873, so less than two decades old when they passed through.
• Place Royale (photo 5), built 1776–82, with Godfrey of Bouillon's statue unveiled in 1848.
• I left out the Royal Palace next door: its present façade dates from the rebuilding begun in 1904, so it isn't what they would have seen.

4. Interlaken gets four words: "by way of Interlaken." The Kursaal (photo 6) was already here in 1891; it opened in 1859. The first major rebuilding came later, from 1899–1910, creating much of the complex that survives today.

The last leg is another small gap. The Brünig railway reached Meiringen in 1888, but only from Brienz; the Interlaken–Brienz line didn't open until 1916. So one plausible 1891 route was the lake steamer to Brienz and then the train (photo 7: Meiringen station today), though they could also have walked or hired a carriage. Watson doesn't say.

5. Watson's calendar only just works. Holmes appears on the evening of Friday, 24 April 1891, and they leave London the next morning. Watson has them reach Brussels that night, spend "two days there," and move on "upon the third day" to Strasburg. He also has Holmes telegraph London "on the Monday morning," with the reply waiting at their hotel that evening. That can be reconciled if Saturday night counts as the first of the two days, making Sunday their only full day in Brussels and Monday the "third day" on which they reached Strasburg. (Doyle doesn't say where Holmes sent the telegram from.) What did Holmes, hiding from Moriarty, do with a Sunday in Brussels?

The Gemmi Pass is the one stretch I haven't done. Has anyone walked it with this story in mind?

All photos in this post are ours (taken by my wife or one of our kids).

As the title, I read Sherlock Holmes long time ago and loved all of his story. But recently Im just discovered his alternative stories aka The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes.

So I wanted to ask if you could recommned any books that similar to this (especially the story originally written by Sir Conan Doyle) and a book analyze Sherlock Holmes's philosophy?

Thank you for your recommendations

Please join us in the Sunday Watchalongs at ‘The Giant Chat of Sumatra’ on Discord. It's Spooky October time! Get out your pumpkin spice candles and bring your most ghoulish snacks. (or perhaps hot dogs??) (Hounds...heh!!).

On 4th Oct @ 20:00 BST we’ll watch a Spooky Trilogy of one of our favourite series, 1954 Sherlock Holmes) by Sheldon Reynolds.) First up 'The Case of the Belligerent Ghost' in which Dr. Watson claims to have been attacked by the ghost of Albert Higgins. & then 'The Case of the Exhumed Client' in which Holmes goes to a manor to investigate the murder of Sir Charles & then TDT requested 'The Case of the Haunted Gainsborough' in which Mr. McGregor seeks Holmes's help in solving a mystery of an apparent ghost.

more info on tumblr here: https://www.tumblr.com/nixxie-pic/829358039611129856/please-join-us-in-the-sunday-watchalongs-at-the?source=share

Hi everyone! Some of you played Daily Holmes when I posted it here before, and a lot of what changed since then came from your comments (cases that were too easy, clues you couldn't read on a phone, answers that felt unfair). So here is a small update.

Today's case is the first one from real history. It's a well known Civil War photograph of General Grant at City Point, with three short archive notes. And the question is the one Holmes would ask first: can this image be used as evidence?

Other things that changed:

• some scenes have a person in them now, so you read the person too, not only the room
• it's not always writing anymore, some days you find the one object that matters, spot the false statement or put events in order
• the reveal goes clue by clue and shows what you missed
• the ranks come from the canon, Wiggins up to Holmes, some with Sidney Paget's illustrations

As a thank you, all of October every account gets the whole archive free: dailyholmes.com. No signup needed for today's case. If it already moved on to the next case when you read this, Grant's case is in the archive under 4 October.

Which real photos, documents or cases would you like to see as a case next? Open to ideas.

Did every story get its own casebook? Just seeing a few out there for a pretty penny, put out by Calabash [not MX, sorry!] years ago. Looks like they're discussion about the stories rather than stories? Thanks for any info on this series.

Hello to all Granada-Holmes-Fans,

(hoping it's ok to post this here, because of reasons explained). I was a long-time fan of the Granada Series for many years, but in the past few my interest has cooled down. While still a fan, i am not invested enough anymore to keep memorabilia and i own out-of-print copies of Bending the Willow in paperback (Calabash Press) and A Study in Celluloid paperback by Wessex Press. Read them only very carefully and don't see myself re-reading them again. I would like to offer them here to actual fans and not pesky resellers, for the price i myself paid (can show receipts). Only downside might be i am located in Europe, but i accept Paypal.
I hope this is allowed, i don't want to offer them up on Ebay for resellers to snatch them up. I have seen too many fandoms getting ruined by these.