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'''Sherlock Holmes''' is a character that is part of a multinational multimedia series consisting of books, comics, films, magazines, music, television shows, and [[video game]]s.
'''Sherlock Holmes''' is a public domain character that is part of a multinational multimedia series consisting of books, comics, films, magazines, music, television shows, and [[video game]]s.


He is a detective created in [[1887]] by the [[Scottish]] writer [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]].
He is a detective created in [[1887]] by the [[Scottish]] writer [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]].
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Ward Lock & Co.]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1887
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1921
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==Sherlock Holmes by Towa Chiki (1986)==
The [[Towa Chiki]] version of Sherlock Holmes was an action-oriented detective that appeared in a series of [[Famicom]] video games beginning on December 11, [[1986]].
===Video games===
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!| Developer
!| Release
!| System
!| Notes
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Sherlock Holmes: The Kidnapping of the Earl's Daughter]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Towa Chiki]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1986
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Family Computer]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Great Detective Holmes: A Case of Murder in the London Fog]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Towa Chiki]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1988
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Family Computer]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Great Detective Holmes: A Challenge from M]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Towa Chiki]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1989
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Family Computer]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
|}
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Frogwares]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Frogwares]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2007
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2007
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[iOS]], [[Windows]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Windows]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
|-
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Sherlock Holmes Versus Arsène Lupin]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Sherlock Holmes Versus Arsène Lupin]]''<br />also known as ''[[Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Frogwares]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Frogwares]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2007
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2007
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Windows]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened Remastered]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Frogwares]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2008
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[iOS]], [[Windows]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Remaster
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Persian Carpet]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Frogwares]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2008
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Windows]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Windows]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2009
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2009
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Windows]], [[Xbox 360]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Windows]], [[Xbox 360]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Osborne House]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Frogwares]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2010
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo DS]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis Remastered]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Frogwares]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2010
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Windows]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Remaster
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Frogwares]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2011
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Windows]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Frozen City]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Frogwares]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2012
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Nintendo 3DS]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |  
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2023
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2023
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Xbox One|One]], [[PS4]], [[PS5]], [[Nintendo Switch|Switch]], [[Windows]], [[Xbox Series X/S|X/S]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Xbox One|One]], [[PS4]], [[PS5]], [[Nintendo Switch|Switch]], [[Windows]], [[Xbox Series X/S|X/S]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Remake of the 2007 game.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Remake
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Latest revision as of 05:24, 3 September 2024

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Sherlock Holmes
Developer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, various
Publisher Various
Platforms As noted below
Released November 1887-present
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Museum 		See Sherlock Holmes category

Sherlock Holmes is a public domain character that is part of a multinational multimedia series consisting of books, comics, films, magazines, music, television shows, and video games.

He is a detective created in 1887 by the Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The character first appeared in the detective novel A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of the Beeton's Christmas Annual magazine. The novel was then published in book form in 1888.

Fictional character biography

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Sherlock Holmes is a genius detective that solves crimes that perplex other investigators.

He is aided by his friend and biographer, Dr. John Watson, who often helps Holmes overcome his eccentricities.

He has a brother, Mycroft, who is also a genius but is not addled with the addictions Sherlock suffers.

His nemesis is Professor James Moriarty, who is as skilled at committing crimes as Holmes is at solving them.

Public domain status

Sherlock Holmes entered the public domain in 1981 in one-hundred seventy-nine of the countries that were signatories of the 1886 Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, in 2000 in the United Kingdom, and in 2023 in the United States of America.

Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1887-1927)

The canon of Sherlock Holmes consists of the fifty-six short stories and four novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published from November 1887 to April 1927.

Non-canon Sherlock Holmes stores written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were published from November 20, 1896 to May 2, 1921 plus a stageplay written in 1889 that was published posthumously on April 1, 2002.

Canon works

Canon Sherlock Holmes stories are considered those which exist within the official universe created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Novels

Title Author Publisher Release Notes
A Study in Scarlet Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Ward Lock & Co. 1887
The Sign of the Four Sir Arthur Conan Doyle J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1890
The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1901-1902
The Valley of Fear Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1914-1915

Short stories

Title Author Publisher Release Notes
A Scandal in Bohemia Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1891
The Red-Headed League Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1891
A Case of Identity Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1891
The Boscombe Valley Mystery Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1891
The Five Orange Pips Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1891
The Man with the Twisted Lip Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1891
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1892
The Adventure of the Speckled Band Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1892
The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1892
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1892
The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1892
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1892
The Adventure of the Silver Blaze Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1892
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1893
The Adventure of the Yellow Face Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1893
The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1893
The Adventure of the Gloria Scott Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1893
The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1893
The Adventure of the Reigate Squire Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1893
The Adventure of the Crooked Man Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1893
The Adventure of the Resident Patient Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1893
The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1893
The Adventure of the Naval Treaty Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1893
The Final Problem Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1893
The Adventure of the Empty House Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1893
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1893
The Adventure of the Dancing Men Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1893
The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1894
The Adventure of the Priory School Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1894
The Adventure of Black Peter Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1894
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1894
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1894
The Adventure of the Three Students Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1894
The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1894
The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1894
The Adventure of the Abbey Grange Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1894
The Adventure of the Second Stain Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1894
The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1894
The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1908
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1908
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1910
The Adventure of the Red Circle Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1911
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1911
The Adventure of the Dying Detective Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1913
His Last Bow. The War Service of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1917
The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1921
The Problem of Thor Bridge Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1922
The Adventure of the Creeping Man Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1923
The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1924
The Adventure of the Three Garridebs Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1924
The Adventure of the Illustrious Client Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1924
The Adventure of the Three Gables Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1926
The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1926
The Adventure of the Lion's Mane Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1926
The Adventure of the Retired Colourman Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1926
The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1927
The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1927

Non-canon works

Non-canon Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle exist outside of the main canon works.

Novels

Title Author Publisher Release Notes
The Field Bazaar Sir Arthur Conan Doyle University of Edinburgh 1896
The Story of the Man with the Watches Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1898
The Story of the Lost Special Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1898
The Story of the Lost Special Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Newnes Ltd. 1898
How Watson Learned the Trick Sir Arthur Conan Doyle New York Times 1924

Stageplays

Title Author Publisher Release Notes
Angels of Darkness Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Baker Street Productions 1889 Published in 2002
Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
William Gillette 		Star Theatre 1899
The Speckled Band Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Adelphi Theatre 1910
The Crown Diamond: An Evening with Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Bristol Hippodrome 1921

Sherlock Holmes by Towa Chiki (1986)

The Towa Chiki version of Sherlock Holmes was an action-oriented detective that appeared in a series of Famicom video games beginning on December 11, 1986.

Video games

Title Developer Release System Notes
Sherlock Holmes: The Kidnapping of the Earl's Daughter Towa Chiki 1986 Family Computer
Great Detective Holmes: A Case of Murder in the London Fog Towa Chiki 1988 Family Computer
Great Detective Holmes: A Challenge from M Towa Chiki 1989 Family Computer

Sherlock Holmes by Frogwares (2002-present)

The Frogwares version of Sherlock Holmes premiered on December 29, 2002. This version of Sherlock Holmes stories has supernatural elements.

Video games

Title Developer Release System Notes
Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy Frogwares 2002 Nintendo DS, Windows
Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Silver Earring Frogwares 2004 Wii, Windows
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened Frogwares 2007 Windows
Sherlock Holmes Versus Arsène Lupin
also known as Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis 		Frogwares 2007 Windows
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened Remastered Frogwares 2008 iOS, Windows Remaster
Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Persian Carpet Frogwares 2008 Windows
Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper Frogwares 2009 Windows, Xbox 360
Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Osborne House Frogwares 2010 Nintendo DS
Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis Remastered Frogwares 2010 Windows Remaster
Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles Frogwares 2011 Windows
Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Frozen City Frogwares 2012 Nintendo 3DS
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes Frogwares 2012 PS3, PS4, Switch, Windows, Xbox 360
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments Frogwares 2014 PS4, Switch, Windows, Xbox One
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter Frogwares 2016 360, One, PS3, PS4, Switch, Windows
Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One Frogwares 2021 PS4, PS5, Windows, Xbox Series X/S
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened Frogwares 2023 One, PS4, PS5, Switch, Windows, X/S Remake
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