
sporting his convincing English accent for the first time since his Oscar-nominated turn as Chaplin) and his partner-in-crime-solving, Dr.

Mower, and we can look forward to many more adventures from that quarter. Part buddy film and part Indiana Jones, director Guy Ritchies Sherlock Holmes follows the eponymous detective (Robert Downey, Jr. Sherlock Holmes Chapter One presents an interesting set of mysteries to solve, but its open-world setting doesn’t really elevate its familiar investigation gameplay to a substantial enough degree. Holmes proves to be a master storyteller, leading the guests through the events of the long-ago crime, and providing a surprise ending.įortunately, the Watsonian muse is still strong with Mr. My personal favorite of this set is “The Yuletide Heist”, where Holmes recounts one of his past cases to a small Christmas gathering of friends in the Bake Street sitting room. Following in the footsteps of August Derleth – who wrote “The Circular Room” as both a Holmes story and a Solar Pons story – Mower’s “The Misadventure of the Norfolk Poacher” originally appeared as a Pons adventure in “The New Adventures of Solar Pons”, and now it features Holmes.

“The Baker Street Archive”, Mower’s fifth collection, contains six Holmes adventures.

Since then, he’s been reliably consistent with contributions to subsequent anthologies, as well as collections containing both those previously published stories and new ones as well. 10 Best Sherlock Holmes Portrayals Inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, The Irregulars follows a gang of teenagers solving supernatural mysteries in. Mark Mower dipped into the world of Sherlockian pastiche in 2015 when he contributed a story to the initial volumes in “The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories”.
