The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (film) in which Holmes is played by Robert Downey, Jr.. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (film) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (released theatrically as Sherlock Holmes in the United Kingdom) is a 1939 mystery-adventure film released by Twentieth Century Fox. It is a pastiche featuring the characters of the Sherlock Holmes series of books written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film is an adaptation of the 1899 play "Sherlock Holmes" by William Gillette, though there is little resemblance in the plots. The picture is the second installment to the series of fourteen "Sherlock Holmes" film series released between 1939 and
Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street annotated volumes. Details established by Baring-Gould, such as Professor Moriarty being Holmes' childhood tutor, that Holmes was once an actor , and the continuing affair with Irene Adler leading up to the birth of a son, have continued to be a part of The Great Game and have been used in other Sherlockian pastiche. The book also offers one of the earliest versions of Sherlock Holmes meeting Jack the Ripper. 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