![]() ![]() ![]() I haven’t seen Mr Holmes yet, but will do when it comes out on DVD. Both of these showed, I think, that we’re finally looking at the Holmes/Watson relationship in a post-Freudian light. I really enjoyed the two Guy Ritchie films, loved all the camping up, and was hooked to the BBC’s Sherlock series. ![]() Having said that, I’m always interested to read anything new about Holmes, particularly as regards the H/W relationship, if it’s brought to my attention. I know some people end up devoted for a lifetime, but for me there’s been a lot of water under the bridge since those heady days when My Dearest Holmes was conceived. So I thought, “Well, I’d better read some of these stories that everyone’s going on about.” And from that time on, I was hooked.ĭo you currently consider yourself a Sherlockian/Holmesian or a participant in the Sherlock Holmes fandom at all? What do you think about the more recent adaptations?Īlas no, I don’t qualify as a Holmesian these days. But in 1987, suddenly the shops were full of Holmesiana, the bookshops were stuffed with new editions of the canon, scrapbooks, reminiscences, biographies of Doyle…no pastiches that I remember, though. The Granada TV series had already been on for a couple of years and I think I’d seen one of two episodes, no more than that. I only really became interested in 1987, which was the centenary of the publication of A Study in Scarlet. How long have you been interested in Sherlock Holmes, and what initially sparked your interest? An interview with Rohase Piercy, author of My Dearest Holmes (1988) ![]()
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