News — Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle

Philip K Jones (aka The Ill Dressed Vagabond) is one of the USA's most respected Holmes reviewers and maintains a huge database of Holmes pastiches and fiction. Here is his review of The Case of The Russian Chessboard; "This is a short novel set in the late 19th Century in London.  Holmes and Watson are drawn into an investigation of Russian revolutionaries plotting and recruiting among London’s Liberals.  It brings them into the world of plot and counterplot, agent and counteragent that set the standards for 20th Century Social Commentary.  The Emigrés and the Okhrana define the moves and relations...

After several Holmes heavyweights joined the side of the BBC's Sherlock, the Guy Ritchie side was looking a little light - but no more. Gerry O'Hara has worked with some of the most famous actors of all time from Laurence Olivier (Richard III) to Joan Collins (The Bitch) and has directed many Hollywood movies - including working on the Academy Award winning Tom Jones. He's no stranger to television either having worked on The Avengers, The Professionals, Hammer House of Horror, Cats Eyes and a host of other programmes. He's a record breaker too. He wrote the adaptation of the...

It's day 4 since The Great Sherlock Holmes Debate was announced (10th November - BBC's Sherlock vs Guy Ritchie's movies) and we are attracting some extremely exciting participants. We are in talks with a Hollywood film director's agent who wants to join the movies team - as soon as we have that finalised we'll be able to reveal who it is - with dozens of films under his belt he's a legend, but as you can imagine his diary is a nightmare to schedule. Hope to have news this evening on that. We can however announce today a real coup....

We talk to thousands of Sherlock Holmes fans and everyone has an opinion on the BBC's Sherlock series and the two films from Guy Richie. We are also fortunate to hear the views of some of the world's leading Holmes experts and of course about twenty of our own authors. When Charlotte Walters decided to mark the launch of her debut novel, Barefoot on Baker Street, this Tuesday 20th September, with a stunning challenge to write about each of the 56 Holmes stories, one a day until 11th November, we wondered how we could mark the occasion. The Great Sherlock...

" idiosyncratic and entertaining" It's not every day that you sign a major film director as a new author and to be brutally honest I found the experience exciting, humbling and a little intimidating all rolled into one. Gerry O'Hara is best described as a legend of the big screen having several dozen films under his belt but no stranger to TV either with episodes of iconic series like The Avengers under his belt too. A prolific screenwriter Gerry also wrote several books during his career, but never had the time to do anything with them - now that he is...