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In 1905 the French writer Maurice Leblanc pitted his gentleman burglar Arsène Lupin against Holmes in a story called ''Sherlock Holmes arrive trop tard'' (Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late), the first of four in the Lupin series. Copyright concerns at the time forced Holmes to be renamed "Herlock Sholmes", and Watson to be renamed "Wilson", in subsequent appearances. Holmes is one of many fictional characters borrowed by Kim Newman 's alternate-history novel '' Anno Dracula '', although only as an off-stage presence and never actually named; Mycroft Holmes and Moriarty (the latter also unnamed) play significant roles in this story, and Inspector Lestrade also makes an appearance. Similarly, several characters from the canon appear in Alan Moore 's Comic Book series '' The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen '', in which various characters from Victorian fiction are recruited to serve the interests of an alternate-history British Empire . Holmes himself appears only in a Flashback during the first series, as he is still presumed dead. Mycroft has a more substantial role in the second series. References in the series suggest Sherlock was a member of an earlier iteration of the League. Moriarty also figures into the first series and the film adaptation. Mark Frost's novel ''The List of Seven'' presents us a fictionalized account of Sherlock Holmes' literary origins. In the story, Arthur Conan Doyle, an aspiring but struggling author, is caught up in an assassination attempt and is saved by a man exhibiting many of the prototypical characteristics of Holmes. ''The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes : The Missing Years'', by Tibet an author Jamyang Norbu is an account of Holmes adventures in India and Tibet where, posing as Sigerson, he meets the Dalai Lama and Huree Chunder Mookerjee . American filmmaker '', '' The West End Horror '', and '' The Canary Trainer ''. Loren D. Estleman wrote several short stories and two novels featuring Holmes; the novels pit the detective against Count Dracula and Dr. Jekyll , respectively. Laurie R. King has written an ongoing series about Sherlock's later years, including an unlikely partner in the form of Mary Russell . Poul Anderson wrote several stories in which characters modelled themselves on Holmes, including "The Martian Crown Jewels", " The Queen Of Air And Darkness ", and "The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound". In Robert A. Heinlein 's '' The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress '' (1966), one of the characters is a computer, a model "HOLMES IV", which adopts the name Mycroft, after Sherlock Holmes' brother. , is familiar with detectives in London , and smokes a pipe. The title simultaneously refers to the Nazi plan for genocide hinted at in the book and mirrors one of Doyle's own shorts, The Final Problem . Another example of Sherlock Holmes pastiche is found in ''The Curse of the Nibelung: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery'', which is currently in reprint. It finds Holmes at the very end of his career, together with a geriatric Watson, sent by Winston Churchill to Nazi Germany to help uncover a terrible secret. Here, real characters and events are interweaved with Holmes' detecting techniques and draw influence from the 1940s cinematic adventures where the sleuth battled the Nazis in an American and UK setting. At around 86 years of age, Holmes is strongly aware of his frailty and that this could be his last case. As ever, Watson chronicles it all. Film In 1924, comedian Buster Keaton made '' Sherlock, Jr. '' Billy Wilder 's '' The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes '' starred Robert Stephens as the famous sleuth. The 1971 film '' They Might Be Giants '', adapted from James Goldman 's Broadway play of the same name, featured George C. Scott as a widowed judge named Justin Playfair who imagines himself to be Holmes. When his brother seeks to have him committed, he is brought to Dr. Mildred Watson ( Joanne Woodward ). '' The Seven-Per-Cent Solution '' (1976), based on Nicholas Meyer 's very successful novel, concentrates on Holmes' cocaine addiction and stars Nicol Williamson and Robert Duvall as Holmes and Watson, respectively. Professor Moriarty ( Sir Laurence Olivier ) is characterized here as an inoffensive mathematics tutor, his villainy a fantasy of Holmes's drug habit. Recent viewers of the 1985 film '' Young Sherlock Holmes '', scripted by Chris Columbus , director of the first two Harry Potter movies, have noticed similarities between its characters, setting, events and tone, and those of the Harry Potter series. '' Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban '' probably owes a debt to '' The Hound Of The Baskervilles '', as both feature an escaped convict (Sirius/Selden), and a supposed hound of ill omen, drawing inspiration from the legend of Black Shuck . Disney's '' The Great Mouse Detective '' (1986), also known as ''Basil of Baker Street'', was a relatively successful theatrical feature Animated Film based on the books of Eve Titus , featuring a miniature subworld of London with mice, rats and cats in the lead roles. The title character is a mouse who lives in 221B Baker St and models his own detective career on Holmes. In 1978's The Strange Case Of The End Of Civilisation As We Know It , a comedy-detective spoof John Cleese plays Arthur Sherlock Holmes, grandson of the famous sleuth. In both '''' (1993) {Link without Title} a cryogenically frozen Holmes is awakened in present day. '' Zero Effect '' is often considered to be based (loosely) on the Sherlock Holmes stories. Featuring Bill Pullman as Daryl Zero, a neurotic reclusive detective who is only in his element when on a case, and Watson-like assistant Steve Arlo, played by Ben Stiller , it appears to be a modern-day interpretation of "A Scandal in Bohemia" centered around a shady tycoon and his lost keys. Instead of Cocaine , Holmes'/Zero's occasional need for mental stimulation leads him to some experimentation with the drug Mescaline . In the film, Zero indicates that he has mastered his technique of Observation and Objectivity – or as he calls them, "The Two Obs". Sherlock Holmes also inspired Satyajit Ray , an India n film maker, to create the character Pradosh Mitter. Mitter, affectionately called Feluda , was immensely popular in Bengal. Feluda used the method of deduction to solve his cases, most of which were set in Calcutta. Ray even made some movies with Feluda as hero, including '' Sonar Kella '' (''The Golden Fortress''). Additionally, the Bengali writer Saradindu Bandyopadhyay also had a detective named Byomkesh Bakshi , which had a distinct resemblance to Doyle's Holmes. This was later developed into a television series that was aired in Doordarshan , India's premier TV channel during those times, in the early 1990s . The series featuring Rajit Kapoor as the lead actor playing the part of Byomkesh Bakshi, telecast on the Doordarshan inspired a lot of Indians to read the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Television '' The Adventures Of Shirley Holmes '' is the story of the grand-niece of Sherlock Holmes, Shirley, who lives in Canada and, despite opposition from Molly Hardy, solves crime after local crime with the assistance of her boyfriend, Bo Sawchuk. In '''', a Sherlock Holmes mystery was one of the programmes on the ''Enterprise''-D 's Holodeck . In the episode '' Elementary, Dear Data '', Data , after memorizing all of the Sherlock Holmes books, is challenged to use deduction in an original mystery created by Dr. Pulaski . However, the programme goes awry and Moriarty (played by Daniel Davis ) kidnaps Dr. Pulaski and takes over the ship's computer. In a later episode, '' Ship In A Bottle '', the holodeck Moriarty again takes control of the ship, insisting that a way be found for him to experience life beyond the confines of the holodeck. The first Holmes-based episode was produced with the understanding that Sherlock Holmes was Public Domain , but a protest from the Doyle estate indicated otherwise (and, it is rumoured, prevented a plan for Data-as-Holmes to become a recurring character). See copyright section above. Sherlock Hemlock is a Muppet character based on Sherlock Holmes, who appears on the American children's programme '' Sesame Street ''. Also, an episode of the highly popular '''' featured an entire episode circling around the death of a man who held 'mystery nights' with a group of friends in which they roleplayed as Holmes characters and solved invented crimes; his basement was an exact replica of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street parlour, and he emulated everything Holmes did in the books – from his smoking, to his cocaine addiction. The episode was called 'Who Shot Sherlock'. CSI is also notable for the lead character, Gil Grissom , whose personality and methods often parallel those of Holmes. Television's Detective '' and '' Monk '' (respectively), with their incredible attention to detail and ability to come up with plausible scenarios, can be seen as a modern versions of Holmes. Many viewers have noticed the resemblences between Dr. Gregory House, star of the popular US medical drama House (shown on the FOX Network ) and Holmes. House is head of a diagnostics department in a fictional hospital, and is something of a deductive genius. Tall and thin, he is also addicted to painkillers - like Holmes, he shuns personal contact, plays a musical instrument (the piano), and his address is 221B. Finally, also at Fox, there is "X-Files" , with Special Agent Fox W. Mulder ( David Duchovny ) in the Holmes role and Special Agent Dana K. Scully ( Gillian Anderson ) as Watson (right down to being a doctor); their investigations are more ''outré'', but we can almost hear Mulder quoting Holmes' famous aphorism, "...whatever remains must be the truth." Animation The 1999 animated series '' Sherlock Holmes In The 22nd Century '' was set in the year 2103 and involved Beth Lestrade, a direct descendant of Holmes's associate Inspector Lestrade , reanimating the cryogenically preserved corpse of Holmes to battle Moriarty, who was believed to be responsible for a series of crimes in New London. Watson was long dead, but a robotic counterpart was made to physically resemble him, and the three solved a number of cases patterned on the original Holmes stories; for instance, a retelling of '' The Hound Of The Baskervilles '' took place on the moon and involved werewolves. The series was created by DIC and Scottish Television, and ran for approximately two seasons. It was unique in Sherlockiana for a number of reasons, including the fact that Holmes, who is canonically described as having black hair and grey eyes, was depicted with blond hair and blue eyes. Sherlock Holmes is also an inspiration for the Japan ese Anime , '' Case Closed '' (''Detective Conan'' in Japan), where the main character, Jimmy Kudo (Shin'ichi Kudo), takes his pseudonym, Conan Edogawa, from two detective fiction authors, Edogawa Rampo and Arthur Conan Doyle . Sherlock Holmes is extremely popular in Japan . Incidentally Edogawa Rampo took his name from Edgar Allan Poe , the American writer known as the 'Father' of detective fiction. In ) must track down the Shropshire Slasher. Computer games Sherlock Holmes has taken the starring roles in a number of officially licensed video games:
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