Sherlock Holmes can be old-school, punk, steampunk, or just a boor with great cheekbones. He’s survived silent films, black-and-white melodrama, trippy ‘70s flicks, and now prestige TV with all the ...

Gareth Rubin’s new novel Holmes and Moriarty (Simon & Schuster, £18.99) has a mouth-wateringly ingenious premise: Professor ...

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Basil Rathbone (1892-1967) was born in Johannesburg, South Africa , to British parents.

Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) Collection A series of fourteen films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was released between 1939 and 1946; the British actors Basil ...

Part of: Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) Collection A series of fourteen films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was released between 1939 and 1946; the British actors ...

Basil Rathbone had already played Holmes in reasonably faithful period adaptations of Doyle’s stories, such as The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), but this was the first of several pictures ...