Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective is a 1962 novel by William S. Baring-Gould. The book purports to be a biography of Sherlock Holmes. Some aspects of the book were loosely based on the life of Baring-Gould's paternal grandfather, Sabine Baring-Gould. Five years later, Baring-Gould would go on to publish an "Annotated Sherlock Holmes", which would be considered definitive, at least until Leslie S. Klinger published "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes" in 2004–2005. Baring-Gould used many biography details he invented in "Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street" for his
Sherlock Holmes pastiches nunca" (2004), where Sherlock Holmes meets Mary Poppins. The Conan Doyle estate commissioned Anthony Horowitz, author of the Alex Rider novels, "The Power of Five" and TV's "Foyle's War", to write a new, uniquely "authorised" Sherlock Holmes novel. Published by Orion Books in 2011 under the title "The House of Silk", the content and title were a "closely guarded secret" before publication. . The BBC's TV series "Sherlock" re-imagines Holmes and Watson (played by Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman) as contemporary figures with Watson publishing his accounts of Holmes' exploits online. The US TV series "Elementary" features a modern Holmes