Sherlock Holmes

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Monday Miscellanea

More London-oriented trivia for a Monday morning.

"Watson, I must measure that Monopoly board." "But why, my dear Holmes?" "To see if the game is a foot".

Sherlock Holmes In Sci-Fi And Fantasy

To boldly go where no elementary Martians have battled dinosaurs, my dear Watson.

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Exhibition Review: Murder In The Library! @ The British Library

A celebration of crime fiction comes to the British Library.

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A Phone Box Shrine To Sherlock At St Barts

Fans leave messages for Holmes, Watson and Moriarty.

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BBC’s Sherlock: The London Locations

Tracking down the sleuth’s hangouts.

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Monday Miscellanea

It’s been 228 years since the last person was hanged at the Tyburn gallows.

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Sherlock Wins Two BAFTAs…New Series Now Filming

Rebooted detective show wins Best Drama and Best Supporting Actor.

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New ‘Official’ Sherlock Holmes Book Announced

Sherlock Holmes is back. Again! But this time he’s all official and everything.

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Sherlock Holmes Double Bill @ Hither Green Cinema

Some of us might still be swooning for Cumberbatch, but let’s not forget his Holmesian forebears. Hither Green Cinema is putting on a double bill this Sunday: Basil Rathbone in the classic Hound of the Baskervilles (5pm), and Guy Ritchie’s fast-edited, Robert Downey Jr-starring version …

Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as John Watson / image from the BBC

Londonist Demands More Sherlock

Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as John Watson / image from the BBC “Most people blunder around this city and all they see are streets and shops and cars; walk with Sherlock Holmes, you see the battlefield.” What? No way. Is he …

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Camden Fringe Review: Sherlock (Abridged)

You’ve seen the film, read the books, watched the TV series, seen the play: now go see another play about the most overexposed Victorian duo since Gladstone and Disraeli went skinny dipping. We’re literally on the very fringe of the Camden Fringe – the border …