![]() The mysteries facing the pair in these "uncollected cases" are typically intriguing. His exchanges with his loyal companion Dr Watson are recorded with humour and wit, and Watson only confirms our own suspicions when he says, at the conclusion of one of their adventures, "You pretend indifference, but I know otherwise" (241). But this is a Holmes subtly reimagined for our own times. ![]() One of their most recent releases, Geoffrey Finch's The Uncollected Cases of Sherlock Holmes, rings so true in every detail that, at first glance, it might have been transcribed from some long-lost manuscript. As for his literary afterlife, MX Publishers alone has 150 or so Sherlock Holmes authors, and more than than 500 Sherlock Holmes books in its catalogue. Holmes continues to roam the world at large, a familiar presence on page and on screen, as well as across the whole range of other modern media. Not only did he himself resurrect Sherlock Holmes, but a host of others followed suit. ![]() He had no success at all in killing off his key character at the Reichenbach Falls. ![]() In one respect, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a dismal failure. ![]()
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