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The official press pass holders, Always 1895, broke the news last night that after huge pressure from fans, we have added a third team to the debate. The fans have argued that although there hasn't been a major 'traditional' adaptation of Holmes in the last decade, the ongoing and enduring influence of, at very least the Granada series with Jeremy Brett, should have a voice. Team 3 brings together 'The Traditional Adaptations' and whilst the ITV series is the most iconic, will also include team members from several adaptations that stay very close to the original Arthur Conan Doyle stories....

" It's a neatly-turned tale which will amuse fans of Holmes and the non-Holmesian alike." The Bookbag is one of the UK's largest independent book reviews sites. Their review for The Case of The Grave Accusation is out this week and overall very positive. "Much in the way that legend says that King Arthur will return when his country needs him, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson have returned because an accusation has been made against their creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The charge is that the great man plagiarised The Hound of the Baskervilles from his great friend Bertram Fletcher Robinson – and then...

We caught up with Charlie a couple of days before the paperback release of his debut Sherlock Holmes pastiche 'The Case of The Russian Chessboard'. Originally released on Amazon Kindle, this short novel has had rave reviews for its stark portrayal of a mystery involving Russian exiles. What led you to write a Sherlock Holmes pastiche? I thought I could do better than the ones I’d been reading! I remember reading June Thompson’s ‘Secret Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes’ and ‘Secret Files’ and thinking ‘What makes so many of these well-written stories so unsatisfying, compared to Conan Doyle?’ I did some...

Last week the world's largest unofficial fan site for BBC's Sherlock, Sherlockology, went live, with tens of thousands of visitors in the first 24 hours. A quick look through the site and you can see why. They have a huge amount of information about the BBC series, which enlisted an immediate response from the show’s producers within hours of the site going live. In term's of The Great Sherlock Holmes Debate the timing couldn't have been better as now the team behind Sherlockology have thrown their considerably large hat in the ring and joined the BBC team. This is important...

With well over 1,000 journalists from around the world reading the Great Sherlock Holmes Debate press release, and dozens of enquiries, it has been a tough decision on where the first press pass for the debate would go. Should we go mass-readship, or specialist Holmes? In the end we opted to go with a Victorian and Holmes specialist. Always 1895 has garnered a strong following built on the highly detailed articles on Holmes that come out weekly. We also have assurances that they will display Holmes and Watson esque detective skills tracking down the stories behind the teams and team...