The Adventure of the Resident Patient - Annotated version (Focus on Sherlock Holmes Book 21)

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It follows the same pattern; the mystery this time surrounds the appearance of a dead man in a railway carriage, with six pocket watches in his jacket. An explanation is offered by an amateur detective but the narrator notes it is flawed, as it doesn't take into account all the facts. A man involved in the accidental murder of the victim writes a letter to the detective, saying that it was a "mighty clever solution" but entirely incorrect and continues to share the true events of that day.

It shares the same backing for categorising as a Sherlock Holmes story as "The Story of the Lost Special", and appears in French anthologies. The number of watches was changed because the new title came from a reference in the Holmes story " The Noble Bachelor " to Holmes' involvement with the watches incident. As Richard Lancelyn Green notes, "there is no evidence to show that it is by [Conan Doyle] and strong internal evidence to suggest that it's not". In , several authors were approached to contribute to the library of Queen Mary's Dolls' House. Conan Doyle wrote a short Sherlock Holmes story, just words long, onto the tiny pages of a specially constructed miniature book: Though written 28 years after "The Field Bazaar", this is almost a companion piece to that story.

Like "The Field Bazaar", this story is a breakfast scene, during which Watson attempts to mimic Holmes' style in guessing his thoughts. Watson's intuitions are proved wrong, however. Unlike almost all parts of the Sherlock Holmes story it is written in the third person, presumably due to its length.

Unpublished until , this play was written shortly after A Study in Scarlet was published. Holmes is not present, but Watson is, in a very different form. He acts discreditably and even marries another woman. It has many original parts which are not found in the short stories but borrows many events from the canonical adventures, namely " A Scandal in Bohemia " and " The Adventure of the Final Problem ". It includes the very first mention of the phrase "Elementary, my dear Watson". While Conan Doyle wrote the original version, it is unclear how much of his material survived in the play as performed, which was written by Gillette.

Conan Doyle and Gillette later revised the play together; it has since been revised by others twice.

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Around , Doyle wrote and produced a play based on his short story " The Adventure of the Speckled Band ". The play, originally entitled The Stonor Case, differs from the story in several small details, such as the names of some of the characters. Some claim that the play originally appeared in an early draft of "Sherlock Holmes" above and was later removed, with some elements finding their way into " The Adventure of the Empty House " before the entire play was resurrected, some years later, into "The Crown Diamond" and "The Mazarin Stone. Arthur Conan Doyle rarely gave interviews or publicly discussed his character.

However, the following is a list of Conan Doyle essays on his character which are currently in publication, either in Green or Haining's book or in standard editions of the Complete Stories:. This essay was featured in the Strand Magazine as a Christmas treat to its readers. An essay from Collier's Weekly, in which Doyle explains exactly where Holmes came from. It contains, at the end, J. This appeared in The Strand Magazine to introduce a competition to name the best Sherlock Holmes adventures. This is the sequel to the article mentioned above.

In it, Conan Doyle listed what he thought were the best Holmes adventures. Richard Lancelyn Green's The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes also includes five prefaces to the various editions of Sherlock Holmes stories and novels, Conan Doyle's speech at the Stoll Convention Dinner , some chapters from Conan Doyle's autobiography Memoirs and Adventures, and several interviews. These are works which have in the past been thought to have been written by Conan Doyle.

Some have been conclusively proved to have no Conan Doyle input, the composition of others still remains unclear. The stories are generally extrapolations of cases briefly mentioned in the canonical work, but tend to contradict themselves and each other. They are generally considered Sherlock Holmes pastiches. This mystery, a completed Sherlock Holmes story, was found in by a Conan Doyle biographer, Hesketh Pearson, searching through a box of Conan Doyle's papers.

It was originally announced that the story would not be published by the Doyle estate, but it was announced it certainly was by Doyle, as the manuscript supposedly appeared in his own handwriting. However, according to Jon L. Lellenberg in Nova 57 Minor, the manuscript was not in Conan Doyle's handwriting, but typewritten. The Strand Magazine published extracts from it in August , and it was finally published after demand from Sherlock Holmes societies in , when it was embraced as a new if slightly inferior part of the canon by The Baker Street Irregulars amongst others.

Doyle had bought the story, in the thought that he might use the idea at a later date, but he never did. He points out that Doyle's wife, sons and biographer were fooled by the style, and it is possible there was a redraft made. Though never claimed by any serious critic to be a Conan Doyle work, this parody is listed here due to a popular misconception that this was written by Doyle for his friend, J. Barrie of Peter Pan fame. Perhaps contributing to this misconception is the fact that the story appears for the first time only in a work of Conan Doyle's, and all subsequent printings are from that source.

In fact, this story was written by Barrie for Doyle following a period of the two of them working together on a play. The story itself involves Doyle and Barrie visiting Holmes, with Doyle killing Holmes due to his irritating intelligence which perhaps reflects Doyle's killing off of the character in " The Adventure of the Final Problem ". The recognition of William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes was growing as a result of the success of the play Sherlock Holmes.

Playing upon his most famous role, a short comedy sketch performed by William Gillette as a curtain raiser to an unrelated play. It involves a mute Sherlock Holmes, and a very talkative client. Canon Wikisource has original text related to this article: Sherlock Holmes The traditional canon—usually capitalized by aficionados of the Sherlockian game as "the Canon"—consists of four novels and 56 short stories.

The description of these 60 adventures as the Sherlock Holmes canon and the game of applying the methods of "Higher Criticism" to it was started by Ronald Knox as a playful use of the traditional definition of Canon as an authoritative list of books accepted as Holy Scripture. Doyle had decided that these would be the last collection of Holmes's stories, and intended to kill him off in "The Final Problem". Reader demand stimulated him to write another Holmes adventure—The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Thirteen episodes have been produced, with four three-part series airing from to , and a special episode that aired on 1 January The series is set in the present day, while the one-off special features a Victorian period fantasy resembling the original Holmes stories. Referring to himself as a "consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard.

First appearing in print in 's A Study in Scarlet, the character's popularity became widespread with the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine, beginning with "A Scandal in Bohemia" in ; additional tales appeared from then until , eventually totalling four novels and 56 short stories. All but one are set in the Victorian or Edwardian eras, between about and Most are narrated by the character of Holmes's friend and biographer Dr.

Watson, who usually accompanies Holmes during his investigations and often shares quarters with him at the address of B Baker Street, London, where many of Title of collection The first British edition and the first American edition of the collection were both published in June However, they had slightly different titles. Further confusing the issue of the title, some later publishers released the collection under the title The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes "Casebook" as a single word. Contents The first edition of The Case-Book, published by John Murray in , does not present the stories in the order in which they were published: London [2] and was the first Holmes collection since , when Holmes had "died" in "The Final Problem".

Having published The Hound of the Baskervilles in —, which was set before Holmes' "death", Doyle came under intense pressure to revive his famous character. The first story is set in and has Holmes returning in London and explaining the period from —, a period called "The Great Hiatus" by Sherlockian enthusiasts. Also of note is Watson's statement in the last story of the cycle that Holmes has retired, and forbids him to publish any more stories.

The puppets for the series were designed by Bunta Inoue. A special programme[1] was broadcast on 5 October while a "Sherlock Holmes Award" was broadcast on 28 December Each episode was rebroadcast on successive Fridays. Watson voiced by Wataru Takagi. There are no murders, and characters appear where they were not present Sherlock fandom is an international, informal community of fans of the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, especially of the Canon of Sherlock Holmes.

The fans are known as Sherlockian or Holmesian. Watson were real people and Conan Doyle was merely Watson's literary agent. In fiction, canon is the material accepted as officially part of the story in the fictional universe of that story. It is often contrasted with, or used as the basis for, works of fan fiction. The alternative terms mythology, timeline, universe and continuity are often used, with the former being especially used to refer to a richly detailed fictional canon requiring a large degree of suspension of disbelief e.

Other times, the word can mean "to be acknowledged by the creator s ".

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Origin The use of the word "canon" originated in reference to a set of texts derives from Biblical canon, the set of books regarded as scripture, as contrasted with non-canonical Apocrypha. This article features minor characters from the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and from non-canonical derived works. He is the only official policeman in the books to have ever matched Sherlock Holmes in his investigative skills.

In this story, the reader finds that despite working along different lines, they both arrive at the correct conclusion and solve the case at the same time. In fact, Baynes had misled even Holmes as he used a method similar to one that Holmes often used when he arrested the wrong man and provided inaccurate information to the press in order to lull the true criminal into a false sense of security.

Holmes congratulated this inspector and believed that he would go far. Sherlock Holmes has long been a popular character for pastiche, Holmes-related work by authors and creators other than Arthur Conan Doyle. Their works can be grouped into four broad categories: Sherlock Holmes stories New Sherlock Holmes stories fall into many categories, including: Additional Sherlock Holmes stories in the conventional mould Holmes placed in settings of contemporary interest such as World War II, or the future Crossover stories in which Holmes is pitted against other fictional characters for example vampires Explorations of unusual aspects of Holmes' character which are hinted at in Conan Doyle's works e.

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The programme adapted 42 of the original stories in 41 episodes, with 36 running for 50 minutes in a one-hour timeslot , and five being feature-length specials. Adventures ran for two series totalling 13 episodes, from April to June and August to September Sherlock Holmes is a series of adventure games developed by Frogwares.

While the franchise is based on The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, each game has an original plot and storyline. Watson from either a first-person or third-person perspective. This adventure game series mainly consists of puzzles to solve during the course of the game, both by the use of Holmes' abductive reasoning and Watson's assistance. It also requires gamers to find clues and evidence hidden in the environment. Holmes must take this information back to his labs, both in his flat at B Baker St. Clues are examined under a microscope or combined with solvents to separate pertinent elements.

The chief objective of the games is to solve the main mystery in the story, but the games also involve Over half of the cases took place in London. He is the elder brother by seven years of detective Sherlock Holmes. He is described as having abilities of deduction and knowledge exceeding even those of his brother, though their practical use is limited by his poor physique and dislike of fieldwork.

The character has been adapted in various pieces of literature and media, including television series, movies, radio, and comics. He is also popular in culture, being mentioned by many works, which mostly reference his job, personality, or his relationship with Sherlock Holmes. Profile Possessing deductive powers exceeding even those of his younger brother, Mycroft is nevertheless incapable of performing detective work similar to that of Sherlock as he is unwilling to put in the physical effort necessary to bring cases to their conclusions. He will not even The War Service of Sherlock Holmes" All editions contain a brief preface, by "John H.

Description The collection contains "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box", which was also included in the first edition of in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes but was dropped from later editions of that book. Watson, known as Dr. Watson is Sherlock Holmes' friend, assistant and sometime flatmate, and the first person narrator of all but four of these stories.

He is described as the typical Victorian-era gentleman, unlike the more eccentric Holmes. He is astute, although he can never match his friend's deductive skills. Whilst retaining his role as Holmes's friend and confidant, Watson has been adapted in various films, television series, video games, comics and radio programmes. He was probably inspired by one of Doyle's colleagues, Dr. DeAndrea wrote that "Watson also serves the important function of catalyst for Holmes's The Enola Holmes Mysteries is a young adult fiction series of detective novels by American author Nancy Springer, starring Enola Holmes as the fourteen-year-old sister of an already-famous Sherlock Holmes, twenty years her senior.

This pastiche series borrows characters and settings from the established canon of Sherlock Holmes, but the Enola character is Springer's creation and specific to this series. Series overview On Enola's fourteenth birthday, her mother disappears, and Sherlock and Mycroft, Enola's brothers, conclude that her mother voluntarily left. Enola is devastated but eventually discovers elaborate ciphers her mother wrote, which lead her to conclude that she left to live with the Romani people and escape the confines of Victorian society. Enola finds that her mother left money to fund her escape.

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Its title is a play on the title of the Russian novel Crime and Punishment by author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The game takes place in London and its suburbs in and with gameplay focused on finding the right culprit and making the moral choice of absolving or condemning them.

The game is the first in the series to use the Unreal Engine 3, and was inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories. The game is split into six cases of murders, disappearances and thefts written in the tradition of Doyle novels. John Watson, Toby and Constable Marrow playable briefly. Overview Music Video Charts. Opening the iTunes Store. If iTunes doesn't open, click the iTunes application icon in your Dock or on your Windows desktop.

If Apple Books doesn't open, click the Books app in your Dock. Click I Have iTunes to open it now. View More by This Author. View all 5 comments. May 23, Sara rated it it was amazing Shelves: A must-own for any true Sherlockian! Loved the illustrations and historical tidbits. A different approach from the Baring-Gould annotations, but great overall. Jul 15, Tiffani rated it really liked it Shelves: I admit I bought The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes because I'm a bit of collector okay, a lot of a collector and this is simply a beautiful object to have. This review of sorts refers only to the first volume of a multi-volume set.

Before purchasing this set I had only read one or two Sherlock Holmes stories. As a lover of mysteries I decided I must read more and finding the stories assembled in such a beautiful package couldn't resist. The set does have its drawbacks. It is humungous, too b I admit I bought The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes because I'm a bit of collector okay, a lot of a collector and this is simply a beautiful object to have. It is humungous, too big for me to carry around. Consequently it took about a year to get through the volume I, as I could only read it at home and usually in between reading in between other more portable books.

This is definitely for collectors and hardcore Holmes fans only. Every story is extensively annotated. I gave up reading the annotations unless there was something I really wanted to know more about. Mar 01, Brenda rated it liked it.

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I've always wanted to read Sherlock Holmes. This was not the version for me. I finshed the first story and returned it to the library. It is for the fanatic - every pages has lots and lots of notes framing every other reference, it seems. It weight about 10 pounds. I will try again sometime with a "normal" version.

Jan 16, Kathleen rated it it was amazing Shelves: It's the first time for six-ish years since I've read through Conan Doyle's Canon. Oct 15, Greg Kerestan rated it it was amazing. Plenty of research projects can be slogs, but the first volume of annotated Sherlock Holmes stories containing biographical sketches and then the complete annotated contents of the "Adventures" and "Memoirs" is brilliant and a gripping read.

The stories themselves are as good as anyone remembers, of course, but the annotations bring it to another level. Some are historical context, some are tidbits and trivia, and more than a few are tongue-in-cheek, sometimes almost sarcastic, literary hypoth Plenty of research projects can be slogs, but the first volume of annotated Sherlock Holmes stories containing biographical sketches and then the complete annotated contents of the "Adventures" and "Memoirs" is brilliant and a gripping read.

Some are historical context, some are tidbits and trivia, and more than a few are tongue-in-cheek, sometimes almost sarcastic, literary hypotheses on Sherlock, Watson and the other characters. Given the "great game" conceit of pretending the stories are nonfiction instead of fiction, there's something almost Nabokovian in simultaneously reading the stories and seeing mock "historical criticism" of them- just as fictional as the stories themselves.

Aug 31, Chris Eirschele rated it really liked it. The Short Stories" for research, as a writer. There are eight stories in this volume. The book is large, not easy to handle, but worth the effort if you are interested in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and some of his work. The book contains many sidebars - in descriptions, pictures and annotations. There are two more volumes in this series. Oct 02, William Dury rated it really liked it. The stories were first published as collections in October and December , respectively. I painstakingly wrote out publication dates because I was so impressed by this two and a half year burst of creativity.

Many of my fellow Goodreads reviewers had problems with the notes in this these edition s. Klinger anywhere admits that Sir Arthur wrote these stories, not Dr. I did get a little tired of the ones that point out discrepancies and unlikelyhoods. Seems kind of odd, especially, what, like these Great Game guys should talk, right? I like this because, while reading these I have come to view Bond as a sort of rebuke to Sherlock Holmes.

What a contrast, the sadly accurate, erratic ramblings of the upper class alcoholic dilettante, and the Promethium explosion from the good middle class doctor s. I think there was a retrogression of racial attitudes in the United States as African Americans left the South seeking integration in the North. It is surprising, and disappointing, to me to find a similar retrogression expressed in an English, as opposed to an American, context. May 30, Sarah Stevens rated it really liked it.

I have always wanted to read Sherlock Holmes. Long ago I tried to start at the beginning with a Study in Scarlet, but I just couldn't get through that one. So recently I decided to try again with the short stories and picked this title mainly because it was available at my I have always wanted to read Sherlock Holmes.

So recently I decided to try again with the short stories and picked this title mainly because it was available at my local library and I thought the annotations might be useful. First off, the stories are lovely. The volume contains two collections of stories originally published as installments in a periodical called The Strand and were later compiled into The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

Watson's narration and character is such a warm light illuminating Holmes' shrewd calculations and personality.

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Since Watson was taken into Holmes' confidence as both colleague and friend, you feel like you are also in that coveted position and it is extremely engaging. There are, of course, a few details one might be tempted to poke at, but on the whole, the set absolutely deserves all of the attention and immortalization it has received. Now to the notes. Unfortunately, they were rather disappointing. Some of them were as useful as I had hoped.

Others were overly informative, giving the notable attractions of a town mentioned in passing, for example, or explaining the history of opium. A large number, though, were speculative and somewhat ridiculous. Perhaps this is generally known, but I did not realize that Sherlockian criticism operated on the assumption that Watson and Holmes were real people and it seeks to derive as much information about these individuals and events as if the stories were factual accounts. Perhaps it wouldn't be so annoying if Doyle had been as meticulous about the details of his writing as his followers are about dissecting it.

But since there are plenty of discrepancies between one story and the next eg - dates don't line up , avid enthusiasts are forced to concoct outlandish tales to explain it all. There were notes documenting ideas discussing topics such as the different colors of Holmes' dressing gowns to how many wives Watson really had. And every single female character has had someone propose a romantic connection between her and Sherlock.

I quickly began ignoring most of the notes, which made the reading considerably faster and much less disjointed. I do not feel the need to continue reading through the other volumes of this set, but I may perhaps pick up the other collection of stories entitled the Return of Sherlock Holmes and simply read the original as is. May 07, Ea Solinas rated it it was amazing. Everybody knows him -- the pipe-smoking detective on Baker Street with or without the movie-added deerstalker , who is able to deduce all sorts of things just by glancing at a person.

The title character is a famous English detective who undertakes bizarre cases that the police cannot handle -- missing fiances, missing heiresses, Christmas turkeys with jewels, incriminating letters, speckled bands, missing racehorses, a Greek translator, sudden suicides, missing spouses, "dream jobs" with strange requirements, and a clash with the diabolical Professor Moriarty.

Sherlock Holmes mysteries come in two types: The case is completely baffling, and Holmes is needed to unravel the knot of obscure clues. The case seems straightforward, but Holmes is needed to connect seemingly unrelated clues to the crime in order to find the REAL perpetrator.

There are plenty of both kinds in this book, with a couple dozen cases that require Holmes' unique detecting skills -- it can be something as simple as locating a letter, or something as complex as foiling a robbery or criminal ring. Doyle's stately, dignified prose is heightened by moments of excitement or horror " It swelled up louder and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled in the one dreadful shriek" , and he wove in a lot of human psychology into Holmes' cases. Doyle didn't like his detective much, but Sherlock's knife-edged intellect and fascination with puzzles are strangely hypnotic -- even if you wouldn't like to be roomies with the guy, it would be amazing just to sit and watch him work.

Watson is the perfect counterpoint for Holmes: And how good is the annotation for this book? In fact, they're too dense at times, leaving you wishing for a little more brevity in the annotation.

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