"The Three Garridebs" is a pretty meh story, but it does have Holmes going a bit psycho after a bad guy shoots Watson. And I can't remember if it's in canon or the apocrypha that we have the line "Never let them say you were merely my Boswell." (The canon and the--well, there's not better word for it--fanfic starts to run together. I wonder how big your name has to be for it to become pastiche instead of fanfic. Or if it's the size of the penis.)

(The canon and the--well, there's not better word for it--fanfic starts to run together. I wonder how big your name has to be for it to become pastiche instead of fanfic. Or if it's the size of the penis.)

Heh. I do love The Seven Percent Solution, which is just fanfic written by a professional author and adapted for the big screen.

Speaking of Doyle short stories, someone over at TWOP mentioned that the kid in last night's ep who goes back to his flat for his umbrella is James someone, which is a character in another SH short story who is mentioned in passing as being the victim in an unsolved case who vanished after going back to his place for his umbrella. Nice shout-out for the book fans!!

That line is from The Seven-Per-Cent Solution.

I am an Arthur Conan Doyle purist. As far as I'm concerned, everything else is fanfic and not canon.

everything else is fanfic and not canon.

Oh, true, and I've used the extra stories as an argument for the legitimacy of fanfic. There have been "undiscovered stories" for decades, and the whole phenomenon of The Baker Street Irregulars is just fanfic dressed up for scholarly gentlemen geeks who otherwise would never do "that sort of thing."

This is where I hate that my books are scattered between house and storage shed, I used to have all my Holmes materials on two nicely organized bookshelves near my home computer. I'm not even sure where my Annotated Sherlock Holmes two-set has gotten to.

everything else is fanfic and not canon.

And, indeed, not Conan.

I've got all three volumes of the Annotated SH (the two-volume set of the short stories, plus the one volume of the novels)--got them for Christmas last year (thank you, Mom and Sis). Cool thing is that, if you line them all up on the bookshelf, the books' spines form the silhouette of Holmes with his pipe and deerstalker hat.

I too have a Mom and a Sis to thank for my Annotated Sherlock Holmes.

And mine didn't even coordinate their gifts. I'd had all three volumes on my Amazon wish list for years with no result, so last December, I sent out reminders of said list to my family and stressed that I'd really like those books. Mom sent me to the two-volume set and Sis sent the third, with neither of them knowing what the other was giving me.

What channel was Sherlock on? I can't find it in my listings.