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
Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes many television incarnations of Sherlock Holmes, varying in faithfulness to the source material from direct adaptations of Holmes stories, most notably "The Hound of the Baskervilles", to new stories set in the present day and even the future. One of the earliest television appearances was the 1951 BBC mini series "Sherlock Holmes" starring Alan Wheatley as Holmes and Raymond Francis as Watson. Three years later, the first American adaptation of Holmes and Watson, "Sherlock Holmes" was produced by Sheldon Reynolds in 1954, and starred Ronald Howard as Holmes and Howard Marion-Crawford as Doctor Watson produced in Paris, France. In the