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 and the Shadwell Shadows is handled with careful aplomb." Bob Byrne for "Black Gate" said "If you like your Holmes with some horror: or if you like Cthulhu tales, I think you are going to like this book." Byrne particularly liked that Lovegrove showed a "unpolished Holmes" early in his career. Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows is a mystery novel by James Lovegrove. It is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche that involves H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. It is the first book in a planned trilogy of "The Cthulhu Casebooks" with the second novel, "Sherlock Holmes and the