Not just Sherlock.
Not only Ritchie verse.
Not only Granada.
ALL OF THE HOLMES UNIVERSE.
If you love the great detective created by the glorious Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, reblog this.
It’s not about who does the best adaption, it’s about accepting each and every universe.
With a 10-year hiatus between 1893 and 1903.
I would have died. I really would have died.
A Study in Scarlet
↪ Mr Sherlock Holmes
When Arthur Conan Doyle originally killed Sherlock Holmes?
People went around wearing black, and one woman wrote a letter to Doyle addressed, “You murderer!”
There is nothing new in fandom.
:’D The fandom that’s stretched for more than a century.
I felt that in honor of Sherlock season 2, I needed to go back and reread the original stories. I decided to start with Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four. This is one of his only full length novels (most of the Sherlock stories are in short story form). It starts when Mary Morstan (for any who know, these stories, you recognize that she later becomes John Watson’s wife) comes to Holmes with a very curious case. 10 years ago, her father disappeared. 6 years ago, she started receiving a precious pearl every year on a specific date. Then she receives a note asking her to meet her unknown benefactor. Holmes and Watson accompany her to the meeting and hear a fantastic story full of death and treasure, half of which is rightfully hers. However, when they go to collect the treasure, they discover it missing from a locked room with a man dead inside. The game is afoot!
This book demonstrates Arthur Conan Doyle’s brilliance as a storyteller. We are just as awed as Watson when Holmes continues to reveal exactly how things occurred. However, we also see very human moments. Holmes isn’t completely infallible, and it’s fun to see him laugh at his own mistake. Well, kind of mistake. Also, if anyone has seen any movies or shows, it is even more fun because you pick up on all these things that the writers added in to tribute him. I wish I could review this to do him justice, but I can’t. All I can say is READ IT!
Personally, I give this 5 stars, because you really can’t beat Sherlock Holmes.
Hang on hang on hang on. I just realized there’s a Sherlock Holmes story called The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist.
Did the fandom already notice this at large and I’m just late to the party?! DOES IT MEAN ANYTHING or is it just a cool little random reference!?
THAT DIDN’T EVEN CONNECT TO MY MIND UNTIL NOW. BRILLIANT. I love it when they take reference on the other stories! Like in the Great Game! Ahh! Genius!
Because Arthur deserves some of the blame too.
DAMMIT DOYLE!
I swear we’re descended from them. 1893 = riots in the streets, 2012 = graffiti EVERYWHERE.
