Sherlock Holmes examined: in print and on screen

The New York Times looks at the many portrayals of Sherlock Holmes in print and on screen.
Holmes’s vagueness and incompleteness on the page are what make him so irresistible as a pop figure, on whom we can project our own interpretation. A lot of what we know, or think we know, about him — the deerstalker hat, the cloaks, the catchphrase “Elementary, my dear Watson” — comes not from the texts at all but from subsequent imaginings of him, the movies especially.

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