WATCH: Kay Kay Menon drops first look of detective drama ‘Shekhar Home’
- 26-Jul-2024
Bollywood actor Kay Kay Menon shared the first look from his upcoming detective drama “Shekhar Home”, an Indian adaptation of the fictional detective character Sherlock Holmes. Directed by Srijit Mukherji, the web series is considered an Indian adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, created by British novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, an Indian media outlet reported. Apart […]
Novelist Anthony Horowitz bringing ‘Sherlock Holmes’ to audio books
- 28-Jun-2021
Sherlock Holmes is coming back to life as Storytel has signed a deal with Conan Doyle Estate for new audiobook stories, penned by novelist Anthony Horowitz, the Swedish audiobooks platform said on Monday. Holmes, the hero of the fictional detective stories created by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, has a mass following across the world […]
Brexit TV drama airs in UK ahead of crunch vote
- 06-Jan-2019
London: A television drama starring Sherlock Holmes star Benedict Cumberbatch as the mastermind of the divisive campaign to pull Britain out of the European Union hits UK screens just as lawmakers gather for a momentous Brexit vote. “Brexit: The Uncivil War”, which airs on Monday, dramatises the characters and strategies behind the historic 2016 vote, […]
UK conman posing as Sherlock Holmes stories’ cop jailed
- 20-Oct-2017
LONDON: A British conman who posed as a policeman with the same name as the inspector from the Sherlock Holmes stories and stole thousands of pounds in cash, has been jailed. Aaron Cowan, 24, of Kent — a county southeast of London — identified himself as Greg Lestrade, the fictional inspector from Sir Arthur Conan […]
Was Sherlock Holmes based on a real person?
- 22-Dec-2014
Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes lives on as one of the best-known literary characters in the English language.
London pays homage to immortal myth of Sherlock Holmes
- 17-Oct-2014
LONDON: Sherlock Holmes never existed but his fictional address of 221B Baker Street still receives a steady flow of letters addressed to the famously intuitive detective.