ENGL 200 Summer 2013: Sherlock Holmes in Fiction and Film

Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock

Resources for Studying Sherlock Holmes

These are only a few of the resources available on the web for studying the Sherlock Holmes stories and for studying detective fiction and film. If you find a link that you would like to add to this page, please give it to Ms. Patterson. Each team will receive points for their group for finding useful links (not the Wikipedia or ones that mostly duplicate this information).

Here's the list of standard abbreviations for stories in the Holmes Canon: Abbreviations_Canon.pdf

University of Minnesota's amazing "Sherlock Holmes" resource site: https://www.lib.umn.edu/scrbm/holmes

Sherlock Holmes on the Internet (comprehensive portal site): http://www.tc.umn.edu/~bergq003/holmes/.

PBS Hound of the Baskervilles site (2003): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/hound/.

"Classic" Holmes resources, including texts of most of the stories with the Sidney Paget Illustrations, at 221bBakerStreet.org: http://221bakerstreet.org/

The Baker Street Journal website: http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/.

CrimeCulture: a portal site devoted to the academic study of crime fiction. http://www.crimeculture.com/

Professor William Marling's information portal, www.detnovel.com.

Timeline and guide to classic mystery fiction: http://web.archive.org/web/20050829233926/http://members.aol.com/MG4273/outline.htm

UNC's Pathfinder on "The Evolution of the Detective Novel." http://www.unc.edu/~rdtowery/detective_novel.htm

Lifehacker: Make yourself more like Sherlock Holmes: http://lifehacker.com/5960811/how-to-develop-sherlock-holmes+like-powers-of-observation-and-deduction

The Baker Street Babes' website, with links to their podcasts and lots of neat resources: http://bakerstreetbabes.com/ (Follow them on Twitter, too: @BakerStBabes) Follows most of the contemporary adaptations of the story, especially the BBC Sherlock and CBS's Elementary. Their great podcasts are up for free on iTunes and on LibSyn: http://bakerstreetbabes.libsyn.com/

Best one-page resource for the current BBC Sherlock: Sherlockology. http://www.sherlockology.com/ (Also a good Twitter follow: @sherlockology)

Iinternet Movie Database: www.imdb.com

MysteryNet.com database: http://www.mysterynet.com/

Canons in Mystery Fiction: http://web.archive.org/web/20050827183822/http://members.aol.com/mg4273/canon.htm

Thanks to Stephhan, the complete surviving video interview with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZFdH76H1lA.

 June 3 Class Brainstorming list  Whiteboard Notes June 3

 Links for films/TV shows we watch:

YouTube: www.youtube.com

The Great Mouse Detective: http://fanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/GMD_Script

The Great Mouse Detective, concept art:

http://animationarchive.net/Feature%20Films/The%20Great%20Mouse%20Detective/Concept%20Art/

The Russian Soviet Sherlock Holmes links online: http://www.filmannex.com/movie/sherlock-holmes-and-dr-watson/19480 (and see the full list in the notes to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Z53uN6y10.)

The Soviet Hound of the Baskervilles: Part I: http://www.filmannex.com/movie/sherlock-holmes-and-dr-watson-the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-part-1/19485

The Soviet Hound of the Baskervilles, Part 2: http://www.filmannex.com/movie/sherlock-holmes-and-dr-watson-the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-part-2/19486

The Soviet "Mortal Fight" (version of "The Final Problem"): http://www.filmannex.com/movie/sherlock-holmes-and-doctor-watson-mortal-fight/19483

The Soviet "A Scandal in Bohemia" (part 2 of The Jewel of Agra): http://www.filmannex.com/movie/sherlock-holmes-and-dr-watson-the-treasures-of-agra-part-2/19489

The Granada "A Scandal in Bohemia": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou_CarzFiEM

TRANSCRIPTS

BBC Sherlock, "A Scandal in Belgravia": http://arianedevere.livejournal.com/26320.html (thanks to Ariane Devere)

   BBC Sherlock, "The Hounds of Baskerville": http://arianedevere.livejournal.com/28352.html (thanks to Ariane Devere)

   BBC Sherlock, "The Reichenbach Fall": http://arianedevere.livejournal.com/30648.html (thanks to Ariane Devere)

  Transcript of the "Red Headed League" (Granada/Jeremy Brett): http://livedash.ark.com/transcript/the_adventures_of_sherlock_holmes-%28the_red-headed_league%29/1020/KTEH/Saturday_February_06_2010/188212/. Thanks to Ray Wilcockson!

 Transcript of "A Scandal in Bohemia" (Granada/Jeremy Brett): http://livedash.ark.com/transcript/the_adventures_of_sherlock_holmes-%28a_scandal_in_bohemia%29/1020/KTEH/Sunday_January_10_2010/161565/. Thanks to Ray Wilcockson!

Transcript of "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" (Granada/Jeremy Brett): http://livedash.ark.com/transcript/the_adventures_of_sherlock_holmes-%28the_copper_beeches%29/1020/KTEH/Saturday_December_26_2009/148911/. Thanks to Ray Wilcockson!

Transcript of "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" (Granada/Jeremy Brett): http://livedash.ark.com/transcript/the_adventures_of_sherlock_holmes-%28the_blue_carbuncle%29/1020/KTEH/Friday_March_12_2010/224224/. Thanks to Ray Wilcockson!

Transcript of "The Speckled Band" (Granada/Jeremy Brett): http://livedash.ark.com/transcript/the_adventures_of_sherlock_holmes-%28the_speckled_band%29/1020/KTEH/Friday_March_12_2010/224225/. Thanks to Ray Wilcockson!

Script for Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes  (2009): Shooting script, so may not be exactly synced with edited movie. http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/picture/upload/image/books/Sherlock_Holmes.pdf ; a better transcript may be http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/s/sherlock-holmes-script-transcript.html.