Sherlock Holmes

‘TMNT’ takes welcome ‘Vacation in Europe’ to start Season 7 (1993)

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ ” “Vacation in Europe” (1993) episodes have a mythic “lost episodes” quality in my mind. I was gradually losing interest in

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Wilder adds to sleuth’s lore in ‘Private Life of Sherlock Holmes’ (1970)

My biggest surprise after completing Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Sherlock Holmes” literary canon is that he lays the groundwork for bigger stories more so than writing

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‘Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes’ (1927) a spooky conclusion to Doyle’s canon

Arthur Conan Doyle writes his last dozen Holmes stories from 1921-27, collected in “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes” (1927), as if knowing they will be

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‘His Last Bow’ (1917) gathers Holmes’ penultimate adventures

Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes output slowed as he built up entries for his second-to-last book, “His Last Bow” (1917), which gathers eight short stories

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‘Valley of Fear’ (1915) does the multi-genre riff even better

Modern mystery readers are surprised by Arthur Conan Doyle’s structure for his first Sherlock Holmes novel, “A Study in Scarlet” (1887): We get the full

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Detective back by popular demand in ‘Return of Sherlock Holmes’ (1905)

For today’s readers, Sherlock Holmes didn’t stay dead for long. “Killed off” in “The Final Problem,” he re-emerges in the next-published short story, “The Adventure

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Doyle tires of his detective in ‘Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes’ (1894)

Nowadays mystery authors dream of creating a cash-cow detective like Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot or The Continental Op. So it’s not like readers and authors

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Doyle solidifies an icon in ‘Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ (1892)

“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (1892) is simultaneously a timelessly great read – with deliberate yet steadily moving prose that flows like honey today –

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‘Sign of Four’ (1890) shows early signs of Holmes’ iconic status

Sherlock Holmes didn’t take off as a popular character with his second novel, “The Sign of Four” (sometimes titled “The Sign of the Four,” 1890);

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The moor the merrier in ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’ (1902)

In his second-most-famous Sherlock Holmes novel, “A Study in Scarlet” (1887), Arthur Conan Doyle branches into a Western for a while. And in his most

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