The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes Mycroft Holmes after George Sanders' failing health removed him from the role. Elaborate sets were built on the backlot at Pinewood Studios including 150 yards of the Baker Street set at a cost of £80,000. The reproduction of the Diogenes Club stood until 1973 having been used in other films such as "Hands of the Ripper" and "Carry On at Your Convenience". The sets were designed by art director Alexandre Trauner. The scenes in Scotland were filmed on location at Urquhart Castle on the banks of Loch Ness. The film originally contained another two separate stories, and a further flashback
Sherlock Holmes pastiches sequel, "The Kentish Manor Murders", and Symons also wrote a Holmes short story pastiche. Thomas Brace Haughey wrote a series of six novels "in the best tradition of Holmes and Watson" from 1978-1986 with Geoffrey Weston as the Sherlock character (and a descendant of Mycroft Holmes) and John Taylor as his Watson, living at 31 Baker Street. These stories, "The Case of the Invisible Thief", "The Case of the Frozen Scream", "The Case of the Maltese Treasure", "The Case of the Kidnapped Shadow", "The Case of the Hijacked Moon", and "The Case of the Unbolted Lightning", are all deeply imbued