Biography: Sherlock Holmes - The Great Detective Documentary (featuring David Burke)

he's considered the greatest detective of all time one of the most brilliant and certainly the most enduring after all he's well over a hundred he died once but the outcry over his passing was so enormous that he had no choice but to come back to life I refer of course to the master detective of 221b Baker Street mr. Sherlock Holmes the very essence of Victorian London Sherlock Holmes has been the subject of more films books and even biographies than any other character in English literature although he never existed his home is as famous as he is two to one the basement Holmes's most famous victory was against the Hound of the Baskervilles it's an ugly dangerous business what's the genius that Arthur Conan Doyle created in the 1880s has become a real person for millions but the curious thing is how many people that are in the world are apparently convinced fifty years a living human being at the same time that Jack the Ripper was front-page news Conan Doyle became the Godfather of modern crime fiction although crime may not pay it's certainly sound hums his methods were frequently scientific actually I think that Sherlock Holmes his approach to crime scene investigation in particular was amazingly good he fought against the most evil villains of Victorian England as well as the demons in himself homeless man stagnated without excitement and drugged for one way he sorted but his clients were from the highest levels of society and his place in history is assured with Holmes you're talking legend his greatest friend was dr. John Watson he has the key to the most intriguing mystery of all what sort of now was Sherlock Holmes [Music] from America to Japan and Germany to Australia there are well over 100 Sherlock Holmes societies around the world intelligent guesswork from these enthusiastic followers of the greatest detective makes the 6th of January an important date ladies and gentlemen of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London thank you for braving the London smog to be with us tonight in this very hotel once used by Sir Henry Baskerville tonight we celebrate the birthday of Sherlock Holmes we in this society like to play the game as we call it to pretend that he was a real consulting detective and Conan Doyle the literary associate of the enterprise there is one man who is better qualified than any other to act as our expert witness one man who knew the master better than anyone else they just get one dr. Watson thank you it's a great privilege to be invited to address such an august body I only wish that Hovis could be here too but as you may know he has now retired to the country to study the art of apiary beekeeping as it's more commonly known now my memory has never been entirely reliable but I will do my best to answer the question which I think is on everybody's lips what was he like to know Sherlock Holmes well of course we have the case histories Holmes very kindly allowed me to retell our adventures in a series of late Victorian publications of which Strand Magazine in London and collie oz in the United States of America are the best-known we lived of course in Baker Street in West London happy days 221b was the epitome of a comfortable late Victorian residence and around him Holmes kept those items essential to his profession and to our relaxation but Watson first met holes elsewhere the year was 1881 and the good doctor had just taken early retirement from the army a chance encounter with an old friend of the criterion bar led Watson to the most important introduction of his life his friend took him to st. Bartholomew's Hospital to meet an eccentric student who was looking for someone to share rooms with the event was later recorded in the very first Sherlock Holmes story to be published in the 1887 Beaton's Christmas animal at the time Holmes was conducting an experiment on the identification of bloodstains today the same room commemorates the historic meeting I immediately recognized his amazing powers of deduction when he pointed out that I had just returned from Afghanistan how did he know well he explained later I'd been introduced to him as a doctor but I also had the air of a military man my skin was tanned but my face was Haggard clearly the result of a tropical disease he also noticed that I carried my left arm in an unnatural manner which he deduced quite correctly was the result of a recent injury Afghanistan he concluded was the only place in the tropics where an English army doctor at that time could recently have sustained such an injury Elementary the inspiration for Holmes and his deductive powers was Professor Joseph Bell of Edinburgh University under whom the young Conan Doyle studied medicine and I used as a student oh they have a old professor his name was Bell who was extraordinarily quick at deductive work he would look at the patient he would hardly allow the patient to open his mouth but he would make his diagnosis of the disease also very often of the patient's nationality and occupation and other points entirely by his part of observation so naturally I thought of myself well of a scientific man like bells to come into the detective business he wouldn't do these things by chance you get the thing by building the classic strand magazine illustrations this was Holmes in disguise in the final problem came about by chance Conan Doyle chose Walter Paget to be the illustrator of his stories but his brother Sidney Paget opened the letter by mistake Sidney not only took the commission but went on to use his brothers rather aquiline features as the model for Sherlock Holmes [Music] at the time Conan Doyle wrote a Study in Scarlet he was trying unsuccessfully to run a medical practice in London's Montague Street less than half a mile away Baker Street had always been a busy thoroughfare London in the 1880s was not only the center of the British Empire but also to its luckier residents it was the most civilized place in the known world the descendant of country Squires in the north of England it has been calculated from the stories that Sherlock Holmes was born on January the 6th 1854 the event of course went unrecognized in The Times newspaper of that date even though the newly invented electric telegraph was already in use other than Holmes his own assertion that he was related to the French artist Verne a little is known of his childhood we know nothing of his parents he was a solitary individual his brother Mycroft being the only close relative with whom we kept in touch the English upper class habit of sending their children away to boarding school may help to explain his character in fact a great deal of information about Holmes comes not from the text of the stories but from the kind of deductions about his life Holmes himself might have met it's quite possible that the wars in Holmes childhood some strange mystery which may in part explain his later behavior I know that there are some who even believed that there was an unfortunate personal encounter between Holmes his mother and his arch enemy Professor Moriarty well after many years close association I can only say that my good friends childhood was always a closed ball to me the effects of childhood on adult life was studied by another intellectual giant of the age Sigmund Freud his interpretation of Dreams was to revolutionize psychoanalysis and yet there are some who believe that homes reached similar conclusions quite independently Holmes and Freud were exact contemporaries and were developing very similar ideas at about the same time for example a significant idea in Freud's theory is the EDA pasq on flex the idea that at male child develops jealousy and hatred of the father there's an antagonism between father and son now if you look at the 60 stories of the Holmes cannon no less than 23 have such a terrifying father figure in them who very often destroys or negates the son figure in the adventure of the Priory school young lord arthur Saltire whose sympathies are known to be strongly with his mother suffers in this very way from his father the Duke of Holdernesse hardly anything is known about Holmes's education in the glorious Scott he told Watson that he'd been at college possibly Oxford or Cambridge for only two years he never said what subject he studied but he brought a formidable intellect to his work he was the most perfect reasoning and observing machine the world has seen and he himself was most interested in the origins of his own ability in the Greek interpreter for example he attributed it to heredity on the grounds that his brother Mycroft possessed it to an even greater degree than he did in a study in scarlet on the other hand he refers to long habit which he said enabled him to reach his lightning conclusions in acknowledging the roles both of inherited and acquired learning he was well ahead of today's research into the origins of intelligence well IQ intelligence quotient has an average for the population of 100 so we can estimate other people by that now what's dr. Watson for example is often described as being exceptionally stupid but this is only in comparison to Holmes Watson for example was an exceptionally good writer whose work has never been out of print Watson held to be a doctor of medicine which with us is a higher qualification considerably higher than the basic medical qualifications and we know that the IQ of holders of doctorates averages 130 the fact that Watson then appears stupid compared to Holmes clearly puts Holmes considerably higher than 130 the supreme enemy of Holmes Moriarty was an outstanding mathematician and was certainly one of the finest brains of the century his intelligence must have been about the same as John Stuart Mill's 190 or 200 Holmes was able to outmaneuver even Moriarty he cut deep yet I just undercut him said Holmes therefore Holmes and intelligence can be estimated at at least 200 dr. Watson I think the question we all want answered is why did Sherlock Holmes become a detective in the first place and was there any connection between Holmes and Jack the Ripper both of them dear lady reached the height of their fame in the year 1888 these are deep questions which I will endeavor to answer over the next course of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding Sherlock Holmes as a detective and as a man was the product of Victorian England the British Bobby unlike the American cop still goes on duty without a gun as did his Victorian predecessor while Holmes worked with inspectors Lestrade Jones at Gregson with Scotland Yard he had a poor opinion of their abilities [Music] in the United States Allan Pinkertons national detective agency had been founded in Chicago in 1852 and become famous for its efficiency more than 10 years later Scotland Yard had only 15 detectives for the whole of London which by that time had a population of more than 3 million in Holmes's day the city was teeming with people mean streets and filthy alleys crammed with the poor and starving the work houses of the day were full of the people who had funded into the city from the countryside as Watson from his privileged position noted London was a great cesspool into which all the lounges of the Empire were irresistible drained the job of the police was to stop the stench reaching polite society as the police news showed official attitudes were based on class prejudice the appropriately named detectives still believe the myth that crime was committed only by the lower orders not by the gentry what is interesting about Holmes's Holmes and Conan Doyle Conan Doyle through Holmes he completely dispels this myth he actually shows that crime is not a pathological think crime is a result of environment it is a result of of people's individual's personalities and he transcends this idea that crime is merely the product of the dangerous class is this wonderful Victorian idea of the the people of the streets the people of the underclass Holmes shows us that the crimes the great criminals can just as easily exist in the drawing rooms and the cells of the West End of London as they do in the stews and the alleyways of the East End and I think for this reason among many others he is well ahead of his time again showing how much more ahead of his time he was than any other writer and any other detective of his period despite today's sensational newspaper headlines crime and crime reporting have in fact changed very little since Holmes's day at the time prostitution in London was particularly widespread as was its corrupting influence child labor was the norm Holmes himself in a study in scarlet used the streetwise skills of the local gangsters known as the Baker Street Irregulars in London's East End crime and degradation lurked in every alleyway but in 1888 one grisly series of crimes gripped the nation like no other the Whitechapel murders the hideous work of the man still unidentified except as Jack the Ripper within the sound of the Victorian policeman's whistle from this narrow dark stream the bodies of five Victorian prostitutes were found hideously mutilated dead at the hand of the great Victorian criminal the murders were front page news there was an insatiable appetite for all the gruesome details newspapers were cashing in on crime crimes of Jack the Ripper was certainly helping to sell newspapers at the same time we see that the stories of Sherlock Holmes are helping to sell it was in those days the the famous Strand Magazine I suppose it leads us to observe that although crime may not pay it's certainly sells while the sensational Whitechapel murders were turned into a thrilling romance the Strand made Sherlock Holmes a real figure to its readers they could even smell a London smog in describing the inclement weather in the five orange pips Watson talks of the presence of those great elemental forces would shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation in many of the stories the weather plays a significant role it treated almost as a kind of impersonal force uncontrollable and one might say this represents the underworld that Holmes battling against but one might go further I suggest and say it in a way it's analogous to what Freud described as the heed the uncontrollable unknown part of the personality by the standards of the 1880s Holmes in deduction was formidable but it was allied to science not only did the detective clearly have a sense of right and wrong but his enquiring mind and outstanding analytic ability was based on the new discipline of forensics his crime-scene analysis was exemplary actually I think that Sherlock Holmes his approach to crime scene investigation in particular was amazingly good those first few minutes at the scene of crime are absolutely crucial in fact they're probably the time when the scientist works hardest and I think Watson once described homes as lounging up and down on the pavement I think it was studying scarlet outside the scene of the crime you know nowhere near the actual room where the murder had taken place and what he was doing was just looking for all these who's trying to assess what had happened the sequence of events where the areas were were that where the clues were likely to be in what sort of Blues they were sort of how to how to go about getting the best evidence out of this a very very important time in the in the life of the investigation of a case Holmes remarked to Watson it is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data Science and Technology were being applied to everyday life the motorcar first went into production in the 1890s the typewriter first appeared at this time surgical techniques were advancing rapidly Louis Pasteur was making breakthroughs in the field of vaccines the telephone invented in the 1870s was used by Holmes in 1888 many of these new developments were well known to Holmes and he even published several original pieces of research himself which I still treasure today the typewriter and its relation to crime the tracing of footsteps with some remarks upon the uses of plaster of Paris as a preserver of impresses which was of great value in solving the case of the sign of four such had been the success of the first story a study in scarlet that a second followed in 1890 the sign of four contained elements that were to recur in later stories when intellectual stimulation was absent Holmes sought the chemical alternatives Watson recorded that Holmes's sinewy forearm and wrist was dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture marks he alternated between morphine and cocaine which he always took in a seven percent solution Holmes himself believed that although its influence was physically bad cocaine was transcending Lee stimulating and clarifying to the mind at the time such drugs were legally available and regularly taken by many of the so called estates including the poet Coleridge and even Queen Victoria herself [Music] but in the 1890s it was not realized that addiction could be dangerous Holmes was at least partly addicted to cocaine and he was also a very heavy smoker you have to remember that cocaine was legal at that time him so these are on a par and one reason undoubtedly was to seek excitement Holmes is mine stagnated without excitement and drugged for one way he sought it despite or possibly because of Holmes his heightened senses the boat chase on the River Thames which concluded the sign of four resulted in yet another triumph of good over evil [Music] Holmes's great ability his brilliance if you like was his it was was his ability to be able to adduce from the facts that he had ascertained at the scene his ability to be able to turn those into a picture to provide himself with the ability to identify the person that he was he was looking for the suspect and even today it is he's well worth remembering so a sort of some of these if you like the tenets of his skills the phrase that springs to mind is the when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains no matter how improbable must be the truth Holmes's discovery of the improbable powers of the poison darts used by the diminutive Andaman Island at Tonga was crucial to the outcome of the sign of for the resolution of the case was a happy one for me less so for Holmes after all he had done all the work Jones of the yard got all the credit what remained for Holmes I'll tell you as he stretched up his long white fingers to the mantelpiece he replied for me Watson there still remains the cocaine bottle delightful apple pie for many happiness is quite straightforward a glass of wine good company and in Watsons case a good woman as he himself commented in the sign of four I have an experience of women which extends over many nations and three separate continents for homes life was more complicated he told me women are not entirely to be trusted Watson not even the best of them films as far as we know never succeeded in forming a close emotional relationship with any woman he seems to regard to such relationships as interfering with its own pure rational thought processes why this should be we don't know it might relate to his early childhood of which we know very very little but his attitude to women was really one a rather scornful even arrogant attitude but these characteristics in particular the arrogance were symptomatic of the age of empire thanks to Admiral Lord Nelson amongst others Britannia had ruled the waves for nearly a century as explorers pushed into the unknown 1/3 of the globe was tinged with the pink that signified the great British Empire this was also the age of Steel bradshaw's railway guide the vocabulary of which is described by Holmes as nervous and terse but limited was nevertheless his Bible speed of both travel and communication were vital to the successful conclusion of many cases including the Hound of the Baskervilles such was Holmes's international reputation that at various times he worked not only for the British government but also the wall houses of Bohemia and the Netherlands as well as the illustrious client widely believed to be King Edward the seventh but essentially Sherlock Holmes was a very private man the feminine touch was noticeably absent from the sitting room of two to one be Baker Street his fight against crime was single-minded but although his method of thought was meticulous his personal habits were not in the adventure of the musgrave ritual Watson describes one wall as being adorned by a patriotic VR done in bullet pox from sister Baca was kept in the toe end of a Persian slipper his unanswered correspondence pinned to the mantelpiece by a jackknife but music was his greatest solace his violin bought in London's Tottenham Court Road was a Stradivarius in the case of the redheaded lead Holmes himself talked of violin land where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony [Music] as Holmes's reputation grew so did that of his creator Conan Doyle at first I think they attracted a little very little attention but at the time when I began the short adventures one after the other coming out month after month in the Strand Magazine people began to recognize detective that there was something there i which was new they began to buy the magazine and it prospered them so I may say they died we both came along together and from that time Sherlock I was fairly took root Edgar Allen Poe's murders in the Rue Morgue was written in 1841 and was in fact of this printed detective story but modern crime writers are almost unanimous in their praise for the Holmes stories crime fiction was invented by Edgar Allan Poe people who said he was the grandfather the Godfather was Kelvin Doyle he took a genre which had been invented in America and in Britain he created and then for the world he created this incredible fictional phenomenon everybody reads crime fiction he didn't invent it but he made it incredibly popular at a time there was no radio there was no television they just queued up for those stories that was a hundred years ago more than a hundred years ago we're still reading the stories but in 1893 Conan Doyle decided that he had had enough of his most famous creation the agent of doom was to be his deadliest enemy than a Polian of crime Professor Moriarty this is a duel between you and me mr. Holmes if you are clever enough to bring destruction on me rest assured I shall do as much for you if I were assured of the former eventuality I would in the interests of the public cheerfully accept the latter I can promise you the one motto after a chase across Europe the final struggle took place in Switzerland at the Reichenbach Falls watson was left in no doubt about Holmes's untimely death it was a shattering blow not only to him but also to millions of the great detectives admirers [Music] after the case of the final problem no new home stories appeared in the Strand he was presumed dead dr. Watson Holmes's death must have been a terrible shock for you dear lady it was but an even greater shock was to occur three years later to fill the void I was myself trying to play the detective the case of the Honourable Ronald Adair was the talk of London in spring 1894 the victim was murdered in this fashionable Park Lane address outside the house I bumped into an old man carrying a stack of books as homes would have remarked I could see but I did not observe shortly afterwards the same old man called on me at my Kensington residence to my astonishment he revealed himself as none other than Sherlock Holmes as ever the master of disguise the truth was that Holmes was Condors greatest creation much as the writer might have his mind on other literary matters his commercial instincts did not desert him about him than I ever intended to do but my hand has been rather forced by kind friends who continually wanted to know more and so it is that this monstrous growth come at really a comparatively small seed Conan Doyle I imagined like all of us wrote finally for money he killed homers off because Holmes had become the monster the monster he couldn't control he was getting in his way but interestingly at the end of the at the end of the Reichenbach falls the door is left open there's no body there's no proof he's dead so a few years later by which time people are desperate for new Sherlock Holmes and other people are prepared to pay a lot of money he can reappear not rise from the dead that would be silly but just reappear very clever career move that Holmes had made a miraculous escape from the Reichenbach Falls he said that he had spent the intervening years traveling probably in disguise in Tibet Khartoum and mecca amongst other exotic places but there's been much speculation about the truth of Holmes's own account of the so called hiatus following the death of Moriarty at the Rokenbok Falls Holmes disappeared for three years now this has been explained in a number of ways he said he was traveling in Tibet but the story is very very implausible my suggestion is that he was suffering from a rare condition known as a fugue state a flight from reality but also a physical flight now this is extremely rare but it does occur it's well recognized we have to ask what was Holmes's personality like now Holmes was what we call an extreme extrovert he's craved excitement he was very volatile he was also well able to put events out of his mind he was also noted for disappearing on frequent occasions with no explanation where he'd been he was also a master of disguise in other words he was good at assuming another personality and my suggestion is that under the intolerable stress of the conflict with Moriarty Holmes went into such a fugue state and disappeared for three years in fact he didn't know where he'd been but back in Baker Street Holmes now faced another enemy one of Moriarty's henchmen also knew he was back in London and was hot on his trail the case of the empty house was resolved by the use of a wax dummy the potential assassin Colonel Moran mistook the waxwork for homes and only succeeded in putting a bullet through its temple Holmes and I overpowered him after brief struggle most of our work together dealt with mere human danger but not always the world is not yet ready for the case of the giant rat of Sumatra but no biography of Holmes would be complete without an examination of his greatest triumph in the Hound of the Baskervilles this indeed was a three pipe problem this very establishment in which we are dining his part of the original Northumberland hotel it was here that Sir Henry Baskerville on his arrival from North America first stayed and crucially was relieved of an old boot this event was immediately seized on by Holmes as a vital clue the entire Baskerville family was being threatened by an ancient curse dating back some 300 years to the infamous Hugo Baskerville the family seat far from London was in Dartmoor a wild and desolate place in the southwest of England it is most notable for its prison built to contain French prisoners from the Napoleonic Wars it also housed American prisoners from the war of 1812 in the story the Notting Hill murderer seldom was incarcerated here the curse that haunted Baskerville Hall had begun the night the wicked Hugo hunted a poor young woman on the moor legend said she had been saved when a hound from Hell had appeared and killed her molester when Holmes took on the case the last of the line Henry Baskerville had just arrived from Canada to take up his position as Lord of the Baskerville Manor the spectral hound had returned and was suspected of causing the violent death of sir Henry's Peterson it's terrifying how wailed across the lonely Moor on a nightmare become reality exactly dangerous business once Watson and Sir Henry Baskerville took the train to Dartmoor Sir Henry described the house as glimmering like a ghost at the end of the long dark drive [Music] but climax took place on the moor as Sir Henry was used by Holmes as a decoy to unravel the risk [Music] [Applause] [Music] a lonely graveyard high on the moor is the final resting place of what may well be the last of the Baskervilles [Music] after his retirement Sherlock Holmes left behind an extraordinary legacy there have been over 24,000 books and articles published about Sherlock Holmes so far the four novels and 56 otter stories in the so called Canon have never been out of print The Strand Magazine itself ceased publication in 1950 but not before Agatha Christie PG Woodhouse and HG Wells had added their contributions to Conan Doyle's for those of us who are crime writers there's no question about who is the greatest detective we all know who the greatest detective is we might argue about who the second registers but the greatest is indisputably Sherlock Holmes if you think of great detectives you can think of Philip Marlowe Kinsey Millhone Steve Carell Lord Peter Wimsey father Brown that list is endless and they are great detectives but as soon as you reach Sherlock Holmes you're talking legend the first actor to play Holmes on stage was William Gillette never referred to in the stories the famous deerstalker hat was first worn by Gillette [Music] the Dane Auto Lagoon II was one of the first actors to play Holmes on the silent screen in 1910 [Music] in 1922 foggy London town was recreated for Eleanor wood who holds the record with a total of 47 Holmes films he was also a particular favorite of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mrs. Douglas I suggest that you tell me the truth Arthur what nur made five films in the thirties that mark it's the friend of the scholar when I'm bound to admit Holmes I Errol Flynn was one of over 100 cinematic homes so far for many the most memorable was Basil Rathbone playing opposite Nigel Bruce's bumbling Watson dubbed into many languages and the Hound of the Baskervilles remains the favorite cinematic story resulting in six films so far the Greeks have taken to Holmes and the Japanese are amongst his greatest fans in Baker Street today every item of Holmes regalia can be bought along with endless souvenirs some of which might have made the great detective raise a caustic eyebrow as he once commented there is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible he has been a gift to the advertising industry his taste in tobacco and fine wines is reflected in an appropriately named range of products the spirit of Holmes lives on in London today Baker Street Station part of it built in Victorian times still pays homage to a famous traveler this is the Scotland Yard that Holmes would have never and today's detectives still have knowledge their debt to the great detective the nice thing about going to Detective training school in this country and being trained by by our instructors was that we were positively encouraged to go back and have a look at the works of Sherlock Holmes because of the the serious messages that they possessed for us as twenty detectives there are similarities between Holmes's approach to a crime scene investigation and that of modern-day forensic scientists in particular in his were the importance he placed on observation at the start of his examination and his experience played a great part in the deductions he could make and experiences a great thing in there a very important attribute to the forensic scientist I think Holmes had done over a thousand cases and certainly that's the sort of number that you would expect a really experienced forensic scientists to have done these days by today's numbering two to one be Baker Street has been completely rebuilt it is now the site of the Abbey National Building Society one of Britain's best-known financial institutions Holmes has always received a large purse back I get letters asking for his autograph get letters addressed it is rather stupid friend Watson I've even had ladies writing to say that they were very glad to act as his housekeeper one other when she heard that he had turned to the occupation of keeping bees out saying that she was an expert at segregating the Queen whatever that may mean whatever that they predestined housekeeper at our homes despite Holmes his retirement 2,000 letters a year still arrived asking for his advice dear mr. Holmes I have lost my sister has agreed to pay for your airfare if you come to speak to my class on your discretion whom should treat dr. Watson with respect not like he's a nobody I would like to name the first investment club in Argentina Sherlock in your own each inquiry receives an answer and Holmes himself has received the ultimate stamp of approval from the British establishment [Music] although still writing into the 1920s Conan Doyle left home securely in the late 1800s the great detective symbolized a past era he was essentially upright incorruptible and omniscient his creator a great storyteller I often tell people read the books again you know the stories you know the characters but read them for their style it's a wonderfully spare very clear style it's as great a stylist a Mark Twain and people forget this and I think it's one of the reasons the books have become classics he was ahead of his time if you think of Victorian literature and you began as a late Victorian it was very florid very overwritten not with him it's it's a very modern style he wasn't he was an outstanding writer he was a great storyteller Conan Doyle died in 1930 his greatest creation lives on this eccentric Englishman from another age has become immortal his weaknesses only make him human Sherlock Holmes is the ultimate reasoning machine the hope of lost causes the champion of justice Sherlock Holmes was and is so popular he literally changed the face of London and at least one part of it Baker Street like Holmes himself that address was imaginary the street number never existed but when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930 the number 41 Upper Baker Street officially became 221b Baker Street in honor of his greatest creation playing the game indeed - Holmes it's all been quite elementary my friends his life was packed full of adventure and intrigue and it has been my pleasure to act as his Boswell ours has been to shorter stroll through the shady groves of homes in a khadeem but to the true scholar the game is still afoot [Applause] [Music] [Music]

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Published: Sat Oct 26 2019