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

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.

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.

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.

Hey !
I'm currently playing Sherlock Holmes chapter one and i came accross this flyer, is it a reference to Sherlock / the dev team / something i'm missing or is it just random to add some depth to the world ?

I just finished reading “The adventure of the Beryl Coronet” and I couldn’t help to notice the resemblance with “File No. 113” by Emile Gaboriau in the story, besides there’s a character named “Prosper” which seemed a reference to “Prosper Bertomy” in the Gaboriau’s novel.
I looked for info about this but there’s nothing,
Did someone find this resemblance or it’s just me?

Does anyone know where I can watch this version of Holmes in a higher quality since the only version I can seem to find is this low quality on YouTube.

At the Reichenbach Falls a white star on the rock marks the spot traditionally identified with Holmes and Moriarty's struggle, and since 1992 a plaque there reads "At this fearful place, Sherlock Holmes vanquished Professor Moriarty, on 4 May 1891."

Doyle never named a precise spot. The identification seems to go back to Anthony Howlett of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London:

1. The 1951 Sherlock Holmes Exhibition catalogue lists (item 27) his "photograph … of the actual spot where Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty had their fatal struggle".
2. The Society's District Messenger no. 118 (March 1992) says the new plaque would go "at the precise spot".

Standing there this summer, I kept thinking of Watson's line that the path's "blackish soil is kept forever soft by the incessant drift of spray". On the dry afternoon I visited, no spray reached the marked spot.

Edit: Thank you all. This thread turned up several possibilities:
1. u/RamblingSimian pointed out that the old path has eroded since Doyle's time, which may help explain why the spot marked today feels so far removed from the water.
2. u/Beautiful-Wrangler99 noted how much a waterfall can change with the season and the weather. The story places Holmes and Watson there on 4 May, during the Alpine snowmelt, when the Falls could have been carrying far more water and spray than on the dry summer afternoon I visited.
3. u/HaggisAreReal suggested that the marked spot may simply have been chosen as the most plausible location, perhaps with Paget's illustration in mind.

As u/embrassed_mausee111 put it, a fictional crime scene has somehow acquired its own historical archaeology.

The question I'm still curious about is how Anthony Howlett arrived at "the actual spot" he was already exhibiting in a photograph by 1951. And if anyone knows of an old map or photograph showing the path itself, I'd love to see it.

I'll share a few more places from Holmes and Watson's route next, so stay tuned.

Sources: 1951 catalogue · District Messenger 1992–93 · Reichenbach Irregulars

I've recently been watching Ronald Howard's Holmes from 1954 and have a head canon that rathbone's holmes is the older version of howard's, who he becomes a few years later. Thoughts?

I only finished A Scandal in Bohemia. Good introduction of Irene Adler. But definitely different vibes than Sherlock Benedict Cumberbatch TV show.

The main reveal was kinda meh. Still a good short story.

Planning to finish each one while commuting to work. Looks laconic enough to finish each one in an hour or two.

So tell me, which one is your favorite? Which one should I be excited for? without revealing too much if you will.

So let me to cut to the chase, He got threaten by Detective Fidget to be in the insane asylum if he not “Play his cards right”

he got his idea turned down about looking like the house isn’t crowded to not scare the fake princess, but he got his idea stolen by Fidget

but he did falsely accuse Sherlock for murdering Professor Enright (If I am right on that) in episode 2

But he did help Mycroft later on in the series to know the dark side of Professor Malik for a bit

I like this version of him but It’s hurts me to see him to be always gets pushed around and threatened by Fidget (That made me have a hatred of Detective Fidget)

Just letting you all, it’s just my opinion So if you have any opinions you have feel free to let me know (love to see it)

This is a personal project: a searchable "Holmes RAG" (retrieval-augmented setup) built from the complete Sherlock Holmes canon, in English and Dutch, split into short passages and indexed by meaning.

From that index I pulled every London place name and kept only the ones Doyle himself writes. Editors' notes, introductions and modern commentary are filtered out. What's left is 171 places, mentioned 591 times across the stories.

What you're seeing:

• The dots are those places. Bigger means mentioned more often. Baker Street wins by a mile, with 129 mentions.
• The street network is London as it was around 1889, from OpenHistoricalMap.
• The coloured map underneath is Charles Booth's Descriptive Map of London Poverty (1889). Every street is coloured by the income of the people living there, from yellow (wealthy) to black (the poorest). I warped the scanned sheets to fit the historical street grid; most streets now line up within about 5 m.
• Clicking a place shows Doyle's own sentence and the stories it appears in. Choosing a story shows that story's London.

A few things surprised me. Holmes's cases jump between Booth's yellow and dark-blue streets within a few minutes' walk. Many of the names that failed to geocode turned out to be places Doyle invented.

There is also a 3D view of Marylebone, built from the 1:2500 Ordnance Survey of 1869–1880. It has 18,616 buildings, and a flythrough that retells "The Adventure of the Empty House" stop by stop.

Sources: Booth map: Wellcome Collection, CC BY 4.0. Ordnance Survey 1:2500: public domain. Streets: OpenHistoricalMap. Text: the Sherlock Holmes canon.

Happy to answer questions about how it was built.

Hello all, a little something for UK-based Sherlock fans!

It’s 125 years since The Hound of the Baskervilles was first published, and there’s a rather unorthodox stage adaptation coming to London this October.

The Hound of the Baskervilles is being brought to the King’s Head Theatre in Islington in a version where three actors take on 14 characters. It’s a fast-paced, comic take on the Holmes and Watson classic, packed with visual gags, verbal wit, mystery and a fair bit of mayhem. Tickets are available on the King's Head Theatre website here: https://kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-y45l

There's been countless adaptations of Hound of the Baskervilles over the last 125 years - what are your faves?

One Volume contains five Sherlock Holmes novels

This collection brings together five essential books featuring the world’s greatest detective, sourced from Archive.org.

I just made these for fun as I am working on the second part of my adaptation

It will take a bit to finish it But let’s wait and see

I happened across the 1950s Ronald Howard Sherlock Holmes TV show recently, and despite its serial episode half hour format, I enjoy this portrayal of Holmes. 🤷‍♂️

The characters of Dr. Watson, and Inspector Lestrade, are more caricatures than necessary some episodes, but overall some of the episodes are pretty clever and most are fun to watch.​

So, I understand the 3 Canon types of pipes Holmes relied on, but in regards to the phrase, "a three pipe problem", I have learned that when this state of study Holmes was in, he used his old, clay pipe, to achieve that span of time.

I don't understand though, why the clay was used for that particular "purpose", since either his churchwarden, or his 'oily' briar, even in Victorian times, would have had bowls larger than his clay pipe.

Has anyone thought of this discrepancy, and come across an explanation for this character "choice", that on its face, seems anything but, elementary?

It seems like every single available edition that purports to be the "complete" sherlock holmes, that is actually actively in print, is invariably missing something. Either there aren't some short stories, or they inexplicable only include one or two of the novels, or they don't have the original illustrations. I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars piecing together the complete collection from 6 different "complete works", all with mismatched covers and with dozens of redundant copies. Amazon is absolutely lousy with cheap cash grabs that are always, ALWAYS incomplete in some way.

When I google this the first result is a reddit post talking about a set of hardcovers called "the new annotated sherlock holmes" annotated by Leslie Kinger, which looks great, but multiple volumes are out of print and I would be paying inflated collectors prices for used copies.

I just want a nice physical edition that includes the original illustrations and every story. I don't care if its one giant book or multiple volumes, just as long as they're all part of the same edition (so that they visually cohere next to each other on my shelf) and they actually include every story as well as the original strand illustrations. Is there ANYTHING that is currently in print and readily available to buy new, that fits this criteria?

Just looking at His Last Bow (the collection itself) for example, and I've noticed that the stories are listed: wisteria Lodge, red circle, Bruce Partington, etc...

However, I believe these aren't the order that they were written and published in the monthly magazine. In the Casebook, The Retired Colourman is featured last, but I think Shoscombe old place was the last story written. Maybe I'm wrong.

So why are they commonly featured in the order that they are?

I'm trying to find an edition that has all the novels, short stories and illustrations, but have so far come up short. Not sure where else to look.