Sherlock Holmes

Holmes & Houdini #3

Holmes & Houdini #3

The three-issue mini-series concludes with Erica Houdini and Spencer Holmes teaming up to stop the dangerous, but completely inept, Nolen who is doing pretty good at ruining his own plans by losing control of the artifact and flooding the world long before the women (dressed in questionable attire) reach him. His attempt to paint the pair as enemies of technology goes absolutely nowhere as the concept is never followed up on and the pair just defeat him in a overly-drawn-out action sequence.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – The Naval Treaty

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Naval Treaty

Sherlock Saturday takes us back to 221 B Baker Street and the Granada Television’s faithful adaptations of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. A letter from Percy Phelps (David Gwillim), an old schoolmate of Watson (David Burke), leads Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) to investigate the theft of secret naval treaty has been stolen from his office at the Foreign Office. The theft has left him in a state of ill-health for several weeks convalescing at home with his fiancée (Alison Skilbeck) and her brother (Gareth Thomas) at a loss as to what happened to the plans or how to salvage his reputation.

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Sherlock Holmes – Death in the North Sea

Sherlock Saturday takes us back to 40s radio and murder. Premiering on June 16, 1947 as part of The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes radio program, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) is hired by Edith Fairmont in a predicament involving the death of her husband with all evidence pointing to the man’s partner, who is also Edith’s lover, found in the locked room with the body. Aspects of the episode  involving the motive and method of murder would be reimagined 65 years later for an episode of Elementary – “You Do it Yourself.”

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Detective Comics #572

Detective Comics #572

Sherlock Saturday takes us back to the 1980s for a comic that marked both the 50th anniversary issue for Detective Comics and the 100th anniversary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‘s first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet. The double-sized issue offers a case that begins in Gotham City but before all is said and done will take Batman and Robin to London to work alongside private-eye Slam Bradley and the Elongated Man to end the plots of Edgar Moriarty (the great-grandnephew of the original Professor Moriarty).

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Holmes & Houdini #2

Holmes & Houdini #2

Running into each other at the end of the last issue, both attempting a little late thievery, the second issue of Holmes & Houdini features a proper introduction of the pair, before each are separately nabbed by Nolan and taken to his secret lab while the evil mastermind takes the weird alien-ish artifact and pairs it with another to become an even greater threat to the world.

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