Forum to discuss anything relevant to the first modern detective, Sir Arhur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, and manifestiations of his erudite stories in print, radio and film.

A vital cog in the history of mystery stories, Holmes is the literary predecessor to the future pulp fiction and film noir types of detective stories that shredded the "gathering the suspects in the drawing room" style typically associated with previous mystery writers.

Holmes was a reclusive genius and drughead; a tempestuous master of inferential reasoning; very likely bipolar/manic depressive; addicted to cocaine and morphine; a brilliant chess player and violinist; and taken to disguises, often losing himself for days among the London docks and their seedy opium dens.

http://sherlockholmes.tribe.net