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“The Boscombe Valley Mystery"

• “Murder in the Gardens” - 2007 play

• Granada Holmes season 5, episode 4: “The Boscombe Valley Mystery”

• Point Break, dir. Kathryn Bigelow

• Heat, dir. Michael Mann

• Set It Up, dir. Claire Scanlon

• “Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries”

“The Adventure of the Copper Beeches”

• Granada Holmes season 2, episode 1: “The Copper Beeches”

• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

• A Guest In The House, Emily Carroll

• Sherlock Holmes’s War of the Worlds, Manly Wade Wellman and Wade Wellman

• “A Study in Terror,” dir. James Hill

• The Picture in the House, H. P. Lovecraft

• “Bluebeard” - French folk tale

The Hound of the Baskervilles

• The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe 

• Dracula, Bram Stoker (also - Dracula Daily)

• Degeneration, Fin-de-Siecle Gothic, and the Science of Detection: Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles and the Emergence of the Modern Detective Story, Nils Clausson

• The Savage Subtext of The Hound of the Baskervilles, David Grylls

• The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

• The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty

• The Exorcist (1973) dir. William Friedkin

• The Southern Reach Trilogy - particularly Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer 

• Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong, Pierre Bayard

• Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons, James Lovegrove

The Sign of Four

• The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

• Salome by Oscar Wilde

• “My Dear Holmes: Examining Sedgwick’s Theory of Homosociality in The Sign of Four.” The Baker Street Journal, 2011, by Mary Alcaro.

• “The Case of the Domesticated Aesthete.” The Virginia Quarterly Review, by Paul Barolsky

• Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction by Angela Kingston

• “Holmes at Home.” In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust, by Barry McCrea

• “Reimagining Masculinity in Victorian Criticism: Swinburne and Pater.” Sexualities in Britain, by Thaïs E. Morgan

• “Addiction, Empire, and Narrative in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of the Four” (1999) by Christopher Keep and Don Randall

• “Performing the Imperial Abject: The Ethics of Cocaine in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four” (2012) by Benjamin O’Dell

• “My Dear Holmes: Examining Sedgwick’s Theory of Homosociality in The Sign of Four.” The Baker Street Journal, by Mary Alcaro

• “Reimagining Masculinity in Victorian Criticism: Swinburne and Pater.” Sexualities in Britain, by Thaïs E Morgan

• The Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad

• BBC Sherlock season 2, episode 3: “The Sign of Three”

• Granada Holmes: “The Sign of Four”

• Sherlock Holmes dir. Guy Ritchie

• A Master of Djinn: The Dead Djinn #1 by P. Djèlí Clark

• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

• My Dearest Holmes by Rohase Piercy

“The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter”

• “The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter” from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Mycroft Holmes, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse

• The Italian Secretary, Caleb Carr

• Against the Brotherhood: A Mycroft Holmes Novel and other novels by Quinn Fawcett

• Enola Holmes book series, Nancy Springer

• Elementary season 2, episode 23: “Art In The Blood”

• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (Russian Holmes), “The King of Blackmail”

• Granada Holmes season 2, episode 2: “The Greek Interpreter”

• The Big Four, Agatha Christie

• Monk episodes, initially “Mr. Monk and the Three Pies.”

“The Adventure of the Yellow Face”

• “The Adventure of the Yellow Face” from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• “Sherlock Holmes and the Cases of Race” by Henry Cuningham

• Black London: Life Before Emancipation by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

• Anything by Zadie Smith, particularly Swing Time

• The Lost Child by Caryl Phillips

• To Sir, With Love by ER Braithwaite 

• Loving, dir. Jeff Nichols

• Passing, dir. Rebecca Hall

The Valley of Fear

• The Valley of Fear, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist, Anthony M. Amore

• The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt

• “You Gotta Go Down and Join The Union,” Woody Guthrie

• Star Trek: Deep Space 9 season 4, episode 15: “Bar Association.”

• Justified, particularly season 2

• Pride, dir. Matthew Warchus

“The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle”

• “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle” from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Granada Holmes: season 1 episode 7, “The Blue Carbuncle”

• Sherlock Holmes radio series, adapted by Bert Coules: “The Blue Carbuncle”

• The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Natasha Pulley

• Valancourt series of Christmas ghost stories

• Elementary season 1, episode 19: “Snow Angels”

• The Pink Panther, dir. Blake Edwards

“The Adventure of the Dying Detective”

• “The Adventure of the Dying Detective” from His Last Bow, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London, Judith Walkowitz

• “Sherlock Holmes and A Biological Weapon,” Setu K Vora

• Granada Holmes, season 7 episode 2: “The Dying Detective.”

• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Nicholas Meyer

• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, dir. Herbert Ross

“The Red-Headed League”

• “The Red-Headed League” from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Granada Holmes, season 2 episode 5: “The Red-Headed League.”

• The Return of Sherlock Holmes, J. E. Harold Terry and Arthur Rose

• Ace Attorney games, Capcom

• Ocean’s Eleven, dir. Steven Soderbergh

• The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith

• Arsène Lupin novels, Maurice Leblanc

• Slippery Creatures, KJ Charles

“A Case of Identity”

• “A Case of Identity” from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• “A Case of Mis-Identity",” Colin Dexter

• “Identity: An Adventure of Shirley Holmes and Jack Watson,” Keith R. A. Decandido

• Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter, Frogwares games

• Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare

• The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole

• The Stepfather, dir. Joseph Ruben

“The Five Orange Pips”

• “The Five Orange Pips” from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear, dir. Roy William Neill

• Sherlock, season 1 episode 3: “The Great Game”

• Elementary, season 3 episode 2: “The Five Orange Pipz”

• Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark - we also mention The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin and The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle in this conversation

• Of One Blood, by Pauline Hopkins

• A Black Sherlock Holmes (1918)

• “A Black Sherlock Holmes (1918): A Case Study in Racebending” by Ann McClellan

• “Holmes and Watson: A Study in Black,” Karl Bollers (writer) and Larry Stroman (illustrator)

“The Man with the Twisted Lip”

• “The Man with the Twisted Lip” from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• “Dr. Watson’s Christian Name: A Brief Contribution to the Exegetical Literature of Sherlock Holmes,” Dorothy L. Sayers

• Confessions of an Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey

•  Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke

• Granada Holmes, season 3 episode 5: “The Man with the Twisted Lip”

• Sherlock, season 3 episode 3: “His Last Vow”

• The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins

• The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London, Judith Flanders

• Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817-2020, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb

Case File: The Many Faces of Irene Adler

• “A Scandal in Bohemia” from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Granada Holmes, season 1 episode 1: “A Scandal in Bohemia”

• Sherlock Holmes dir. Guy Ritchie

• Sherlock, season 2 episode 2: “A Scandal in Belgravia”

• Elementary, season 1 episodes 23 & 24: “The Woman” and “Heroine”

• “The Naked Truth: The Postfeminist Afterlives of Irene Adler,” Antonija Primorac (Neo-Victorian Studies Journal)

• “Femme Friday: Irene Adler” from the Baker Street Babes

“A Scandal in Bohemia”

• “A Scandal in Bohemia” from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• “The Adventure of the Second Stain” from The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street and Nero Wolfe of West 35th Street, William Baring-Gould

• Sherlock Holmes (play), William Gillette and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (play), Steven Dietz

• Baker Street (musical), book by Jerome Coopersmith, lyrics by Marian Grudeff, Raymond Jessel and Sheldon Harnick, composed by the above plus Jerry Bock

• Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady dir. Peter Sasdy

• “A Dogged Expose” from Wishbone

• The Canary Trainer, Nicholas Meyer

• Good Night, Mr. Holmes, Carole Nelson Douglas

• For Freedom, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

• The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux

• The Phantom of the Opera dir. Joe Schumaker

• We recommend Josephine Baker’s Last Dance by Sherry Jones as well as the chapters on her life in A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib

“The Adventure of the Reigate Squire”

• ”The Adventure of the Reigate Squire” (or “Squires” or “Puzzle”) from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• The Seven Per-Cent Solution, Nicholas Meyers

• Elementary season 1, episode 10: “The Leviathan”

• Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction, Christopher Pittard

• The Artist as Critic: Bitexuality in Fin-de-Siècle Illustrated Books, Lorraine Kooistra

• Granada Holmes season 3, episode 4: “The Musgrave Ritual”

• Resorting To Murder: Holiday Mysteries, British Library Crime Classics

• Death On the Nile, Agatha Christie

• Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries season 2, episode 13: “Murder Under the Mistletoe”

• Dead Voices, Katherine Arden

• The Shining, Stephen King

“The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual”

• ”The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual” from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• “The Adventure of the Gloria Scott” from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes by Zach Dundas

• Granada Holmes season 3, episode 4: “The Musgrave Ritual”

• “The Musgrave Ritual” from Sherlock Holmes (Russian TV, 2013)

• Ready Or Not dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett

• “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe

• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

• The Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

• The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

• The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King

• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Case File: Granada Holmes, Part 1

• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Granada TV (seasons 1 & 2)

• Bending the Willow: Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes by David Stuart Davies

• Starring Sherlock Holmes: A Century of the Master Detective on Screen by David Stuart Davies

• A Study in Celluloid: A Producer's Account of Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes by Michael Cox

• The Television Sherlock Holmes by Peter Haining

• Jeremy Brett interview, NPR, 1991

• “Sherlock Holmes in America,” The Morning Call story, 1991

• “The man who created a monster; Conan Doyle hated the fame of his suave hero, but he couldn’t kill him”, Simon Callow, The Times, 2009

“The Adventure of the Second Stain”

• “The Adventure of the Second Stain” from The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

• Granada Holmes, season 3 episode 3: “The Second Stain”

• “The Twentieth Century Approaches” from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

• The Americans (FX)

• The Imitation Game dir. Morten Tyldum

• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Podcast - “Blueprint for Armaggedon”

“The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor”

• “The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor” from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

• Granada Holmes TV movie “The Eligible Bachelor”

• Miss Sherlock episode 5, “The Missing Bride” 

• Fer-de-Lance and other Nero Wolfe novels by Rex Stout

• The First Detective: The Complete Auguste Dupin Stories-The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the Mystery of Marie Roget & the Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe

• Murder in E Minor by Robert Goldsborough

• I Hope You’re Listening by Tom Ryan

• Doctor Who episode “The Runaway Bride”

NOBL makes a brief mention of what Doyle calls “Apache Indians” - below is some essential reading about the current political situation of the Apache tribes of the America Southwest (a group of culturally related Native American tribes)

• Apache Stronghold

• Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West by Lauren Redniss

• “A New Apache Homeland in New Mexico?” from the High Country News

• “Native Groups, Conservationists, Sue To Block Oak Flat Land Swap” from Backpacker Magazine

• “Oak Flat is Sacred, Not A Sacrifice Zone” from the Sierra Club

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

• “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes” dir. Billy Wilder, 1970

• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Vincent Starrett

• “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes” review by Roger Ebert

• Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder, A Personal Biography by Charlotte Chandler

  Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb

• “The film that changed my life: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes” by Mark Gatiss

  A Foreign Affair: Billy Wilder's American Films by Gerd Gemünde

“The Adventure of the Resident Patient”

• “The Adventure of the Resident Patient” from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle

• “The Adventure of the Cardboard Box” from His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle

• Sherlock Holmes (BBC radio series adapted by Bert Coules), “The Resident Patient”

• Granada Holmes season 2, episode 4: “The Resident Patient”

• Call for the Dead by John le Carré

• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré.

• The Sherlock Holmes Companion: An Elementary Guide by Daniel Smith

• The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, edited by Leslie S. Klinger with an introduction by John le Carré. Read the introduction here.

“The Adventure of the Gloria Scott”

• “The Adventure of the Gloria Scott,” from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle

• Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

• Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

• “Encoding and Decoding in Television Discourse,” Stuart Hall (1973)

• Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History by Angus McLaren

• Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb

• The Adventures of Gloria Scott by Mima Simić

• Elementary season 2, episode 6: “An Unusual Arrangement”

• We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen 

• The Murder of Mary Russell by Laurie R. King

• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler

“The Adventure of the Speckled Band”

• "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle

• The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

• The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe

• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

• Granada Holmes episode 6: "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"

• The Way Of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry

• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

• Clue (1985) dir. Jonathan Lynn

Further reading & background research:

• Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830–1914 by Patrick Brantlinger

• The Victorian Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion by Andrew Smith and William Hughes, editors

• “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 12, 1985, pp. 243–261. By Gayarti Chakravorty Spivak. 

A Study In Scarlet

• A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

• William Baring-Gould’s Holmes chronology

• BBC Sherlock episode 1, “A Study In Pink.”

• Elementary episodes: “The Deductionist” (1x14) and “A Study In Charlotte” (4x13)

• Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson episodes: “Acquaintance” and “Bloody Inscription”

• “On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts” by Thomas De Quincey

• Dracula by Bram Stoker

• Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction by Christopher Pittard