Category Archives: Sherlock Holmes

Dressed to Kill (1946)

Posted on 5 December 2017 by Cavershamragu

The Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson mysteries came to an end with this, their 14th entry, in which the Baker Street duo battle suave criminals searching London for the secret hidden within three … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthur Conan Doyle, London, Scotland, Sherlock Holmes, Tuesday's Overlooked Film | Tagged , | 32 Comments

Terror by Night (1946)

Posted on 18 September 2017 by Cavershamragu

The Holmes and Watson series picked itself right up again with this train-bound adventure that comes as very welcome after the disappointment of Pursuit to Algiers. It was also the swansong for Dennis Hoey’s Lestrade. Holmes: The Inspector’s going to … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthur Conan Doyle, London, Scotland, Sherlock Holmes, Tuesday's Overlooked Film | Tagged , | 20 Comments

Pursuit to Algiers (1945)

Posted on 1 August 2017 by Cavershamragu

It’s a shame, I know, but as we say in Italy, not every ring doughnut comes out with a hole in the middle. And the tenth entry in Universal Studios’ Holmes and Watson series, is by common consent considered the … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthur Conan Doyle, London, Sherlock Holmes, Tuesday's Overlooked Film | Tagged , | 17 Comments

THE STORY OF CLASSIC CRIME IN 100 BOOKS – guest post by Martin Edwards

Posted on 3 July 2017 by Cavershamragu

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Martin Edwards is a pretty amazing chap. A busy blogger (Do You Write Under Your Own Name?), a lawyer by trade, a fine and prolific mystery author, he is also the … Continue reading →

Posted in Agatha Christie, Anthony Berkeley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace, England, Julian Symons, Martin Edwards, Michael Gilbert, Patricia Highsmith, Sherlock Holmes | 13 Comments

The Woman in Green (1945)

Posted on 2 May 2017 by Cavershamragu

This film marked the final (re) appearance of Professor Moriarty (or, rather, as credited, ‘Moriarity’) in the Universal Holmes and Watson series, this time in the chilly, smooth-tongued form of Henry Daniell (who was said to be Rathbone’s favourite). And this … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthur Conan Doyle, London, Sherlock Holmes, Tuesday's Overlooked Film | Tagged , | 30 Comments

The House of Fear (1945)

Posted on 11 April 2017 by Cavershamragu

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are off to a remote part of Scotland to investigate the peculiar goings on at Drearcliff House, a gloomy old mansion where its inhabitants are all starting to receive mysterious threats before dying. Has their … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthur Conan Doyle, London, Scotland, Sherlock Holmes, Tuesday's Overlooked Film | Tagged , | 48 Comments

The Pearl of Death (1944)

Posted on 23 August 2016 by Cavershamragu

After the rousing success of The Scarlet Claw, could Universal’s Holmes and Watson series continue at the same fever pitch? Well, no, not quite, but this breezy thriller, kicking off the next trio of Holmesian adventures for Basil Rathbone and … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthur Conan Doyle, London, Sherlock Holmes, Tuesday's Overlooked Film | Tagged , | 31 Comments

The Scarlet Claw (1944)

Posted on 26 April 2016 by Cavershamragu

For many this is the best of the Holmes and Watson films made by Universal. It is certainly the most successful as a whodunit and possibly the darkest too. It was originally titled Sherlock Holmes in Canada and it is the only … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthur Conan Doyle, Canada, Sherlock Holmes, Tuesday's Overlooked Film | Tagged , | 26 Comments

Next series of SHERLOCK begins filming

Posted on 6 April 2016 by Cavershamragu

The BBC has just sent out a press release announcing the start of filming on the first of the three 90-minute episodes that will comprise season 4 of Sherlock. So what lies in store? Co-creators, writers and executive producers Steven … Continue reading →

Posted in Sherlock Holmes | 16 Comments

The Spider Woman (1944)

Posted on 1 March 2016 by Cavershamragu

Possibly the least ‘Sherlockian’ of all the films in Universal’s Holmes and Watson series, this is also terrifically entertaining, not least for the screen-grabbing performance by Gale Sondegaard as the eponymous femme fatale. A delightful pastiche of Doyle elements filtered … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthur Conan Doyle, London, Sherlock Holmes, Tuesday's Overlooked Film | Tagged , , | 29 Comments

ALL-CONSUMING FIRE by Andy Lane

Posted on 23 February 2016 by Cavershamragu

This audio production is an adaptation of the 1994 novel by Andy Lane that brought  together Sherlock Holmes and, wait for it, Doctor Who. In addition there are also elements of the HP Lovecraft Cthulhu mythos too. Now, I realise … Continue reading →

Posted in Andy Lane, Audio Review, Big Finish, Doctor Who, England, India, London, Scene of the crime, Sherlock Holmes, Tuesday's Overlooked Film | 24 Comments

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)

Posted on 2 February 2016 by Cavershamragu

Not many may realise that The Abominable Bride, the marvellous Victorian-era seasonal special of Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as Holmes and Watson, and this entry in the Rathbone and Bruce series share a canonical link as they … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthur Conan Doyle, England, Film Noir, Sherlock Holmes, Tuesday's Overlooked Film | Tagged , | 30 Comments

Top 25 TV Detectives

Posted on 8 December 2015 by Cavershamragu

Well, I have been watching the BBC’s new police drama River starring Stellan Skarsgård and Nicola Walker. Whether it will be a one-off or continue I don’t know but I think it is as good as Cracker ever was and … Continue reading →

Posted in 'Best of' lists, Agatha Christie, Albert Campion, Columbo, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ellery Queen, Inspector Morse, Inspector Wexford, London, Lord Peter Wimsey, Los Angeles, Margery Allingham, Miss Marple, Nero Wolfe, New York, Oxford, Paris, Poirot, Rex Stout, Ruth Rendell, San Francisco, Sherlock Holmes, TV Cops | 162 Comments

A THREE PIPE PROBLEM (1975) by Julian Symons

Posted on 23 October 2015 by Cavershamragu

When is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche not a Sherlock Holmes pastiche? Well, when the great detective does not in fact appear … This is the clever conceit of this mystery by poet, critic, novelist and editor Julian Symons, who brings … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015 Vintage Mystery Challenge, Julian Symons, London, Sherlock Holmes | 31 Comments

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (1902) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Posted on 13 October 2015 by Cavershamragu

Like Bram Stoker’s Dracula, this is one of those books that may seem very familiar even to those who have never actually read it. But they really should because it holds up beautifully. It is certainly the single best known … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015 Vintage Mystery Challenge, Arthur Conan Doyle, England, Friday's Forgotten Book, Hammer Studios, Sherlock Holmes, Terence Fisher, Tuesday's Overlooked Film | Tagged , , | 53 Comments

Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)

Posted on 15 September 2015 by Cavershamragu

Holmes and Watson leave the semi-Victorian comforts of Baker Street far behind and head off to 1940s America in search of a microfilm hidden inside a matchbook and which ends up doing the rounds of Washington’s high and low society … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthur Conan Doyle, London, Sherlock Holmes, Tuesday's Overlooked Film, Washington DC | Tagged , | 42 Comments

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)

Posted on 23 June 2015 by Cavershamragu

After the slightly uncertain beginning of Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942), things get a bit more on track with the second of the Universal series of contemporary Sherlock Holmes adventures. Yes, we still have a propaganda story … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthur Conan Doyle, England, Film Noir, Sherlock Holmes, Tuesday's Overlooked Film | Tagged , | 41 Comments

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)

Posted on 28 April 2015 by Cavershamragu

According to the publicity department, in 1942 Universal Pictures closed a $300,000 deal with the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to make a series of Sherlock Holmes second features. The option would last for 7 years and provide access … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthur Conan Doyle, England, Film Noir, Sherlock Holmes, Tuesday's Overlooked Film | Tagged , | 67 Comments

THE JUDGEMENT OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by Jonathan Barnes

Posted on 14 December 2014 by Cavershamragu

Sherlock Holmes had many secrets. This is the greatest of them. This collection of four new audio adventures by Jonathan Barnes follows on from his very conspicuous success with The Adventure of the Perfidious Mariner and The Ordeals of Sherlock Holmes for Big Finish … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, Jonathan Barnes, London, Sherlock Holmes | 28 Comments

THE ORDEALS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by Jonathan Barnes

Posted on 14 January 2014 by Cavershamragu

This collection of four new audio adventures follows the threads of a single case across 40 years in the career of Conan Doyle’s consulting detective. Following on from the conspicuous success of The Adventure of the Perfidious Mariner, Jonathan Barnes … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, Jonathan Barnes, London, Scene of the crime, Sherlock Holmes, Sussex | 26 Comments

Mysteries in Audio: Podcast

Posted on 26 March 2013 by Cavershamragu

Patrick, a man wise beyond his years and master of that smashing resource, At The Scene of the Crime, today celebrates the second online birthday of his blog. As we are both fans of mystery audios I was thrilled to … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, Gilbert Adair, Jago & Litefoot, Podcast, Sherlock Holmes | 7 Comments

GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST by Tony Lee

Posted on 23 December 2012 by Cavershamragu

This new audio play by Tony Lee brings together two (fictional) icons of Victorian England – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s immortal consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray, that perverse satyr, sensualist and scoundrel whose own narcissism led … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, London, Scene of the crime, Sherlock Holmes | 11 Comments

Mysteries in Audio: Podcast

Posted on 1 December 2012 by Cavershamragu

I’m a big fan of audio drama (and for a year I even hosted a blog devoted to the subject) and have occasionally reviewed full cast radio plays here at Fedora (for a list of some of these see here). … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, Jago & Litefoot, John Dickson Carr, Podcast, Sherlock Holmes | 8 Comments

The new Sherlock: An ‘Elementary’ preview

Posted on 17 May 2012 by Cavershamragu

Having previously posted about Lucy Liu as the new TV Watson, I thought there might be some interest in a slightly more detailed look at the modernised take on Sherlock Holmes being prepped by CBS for broadcast this Autumn. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes | 28 Comments

A TRICK OF THE LIGHT by David Ashton

Posted on 6 May 2012 by Cavershamragu

“That’s done it!” is what Arthur Conan Doyle is reputed to have said upon completion of his historical novel, The White Company, before throwing his pen across the room! I felt a bit like this after reading the last page of … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthur Conan Doyle, Edinburgh, McLevy, Support Your Local Library Challenge | 9 Comments

SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE ADVENTURE OF THE PERFIDIOUS MARINER by Jonathan Barnes

Posted on 21 April 2012 by Cavershamragu

One of many releases timed to coincide with the Titanic centenary, this audio play runs the risk of being taken for just another chair on a very overcrowded deck (sic). Which would be a great shame, because this has almost … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, London, Scene of the crime, Sherlock Holmes, Sussex | 9 Comments

Lucy Liu is Dr Watson

Posted on 1 March 2012 by Cavershamragu

In a speech delivered in 1941, Nero Wolfe author Rex Stout proclaimed that, “Watson was a woman” (for a full transcript, click here). There have been occasional attempts to adapt the canon to fit this idea, most notable of these … Continue reading →

Posted in Sherlock Holmes | 25 Comments

Sherlock – A Study in Podcasting

Posted on 30 January 2012 by Cavershamragu

Bill Lengeman over at his Traditional Mysteries blog has just posted a podcast which discusses whether there is any more mileage left in the Sherlock Holmes canon. The participants are a particularly motley crew, featuring that venerable podcaster Les Blatt … Continue reading →

Posted in Podcast, Sherlock Holmes | 4 Comments

SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE REIFICATION OF HANS GERBER by George Mann

Posted on 2 December 2011 by Cavershamragu

The Plot: When one of the Maugham family meets an untimely death, it seems almost impossible to work out who the murderer might be, until a distant relative of the family comes to light. With the arrival of Hans Gerber, … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Review, Big Finish, George Mann, John Dickson Carr, London, Scene of the crime, Sherlock Holmes, Steampunk | 4 Comments

Top 101 Film & TV Mysteries

Posted on 4 October 2011 by Cavershamragu

This is a minor milestones for Tipping My Fedora as the blog has now reached its 101st post. So, seeing as it is also my birthday today, what better way to celebrate than with a small indulgence in the company of … Continue reading →

Posted in 'Best of' lists, Charlie Chan, Columbo, Dashiell Hammett, Dorothy L. Sayers, Film Noir, Giallo, Inspector Morse, Jonathan Latimer, London, Lord Peter Wimsey, Los Angeles, Nero Wolfe, New York, Oxford, Paris, Parker, Philip MacDonald, Philip Marlowe, Philo Vance, Raymond Chandler, Rex Stout, Richard Stark, Robert Culp, Ross Macdonald, San Francisco, Scene of the crime, Scott Turow, Sherlock Holmes, SS Van Dine, The Thin Man, TV Cops, William Goldman | 31 Comments