Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes dilemmas, Watson hires Reginald Kincaid (Michael Caine), an alcoholic, womanizing, ne'er-do-well actor to impersonate Holmes. The twenty-third film in the VeggieTales series is entitled "Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler", and features Larry the Cucumber as Holmes and Bob the Tomato as Watson. Robert Downey, Jr. appears as the detective in the Guy Ritchie–directed "Sherlock Holmes" (2009) and its sequel "" (2011), with Jude Law as Dr. Watson, Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler, and Jared Harris as Moriarty. "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" is the highest-grossing Sherlock Holmes film, grossing $545 million worldwide. In 2010, low-budget film company the
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