Talk:Canon of Sherlock Holmes

Interesting

It wasn't deleted but it hasn't been improved since it wasn't deleted, either.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.171.83.194 (talk) 06:33, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes

As this article focuses on the debatable canon does anyone think it would be worth adding a couple of sentences in the 'Works of Interest by Other Authors' section describing The Exploits, as the one attempt by the Doyle estate to extend the canon (My edition certainly attempts to market the new stories as 'in the true canon'). Of course, it would only be brief as the article 'The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes' already exists.86.186.120.116 (talk) 12:23, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

I think this would class as a pastiche, and with the argument (above) over the canonicity of pastiches, it seems the consensus would be to not include works by other authors with claims of canonicity. Carty239 (talk) 12:02, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Exploits probably deserves a mention in the Works of Interest by Other Authors, given the involvement of the author's son in the process, and the fact that these stories were included in some French editions that were otherwise canonical. WHPratt (talk) 14:14, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Chronology of Sherlock Holmes stories?

Chronologically, what was the last Sherlock Holmes stories (according to the year they are set in)? 101090ABC (talk) 15:01, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

His Last Bow took place in 1914. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 17:21, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Sherlock Holmes on TV and in films?

Why does the extracanonical work not refer to the stories of Sherlock holmes that have been told recently using the motion picture medium? I am referring, or course, to the BBC series Sherlock and the film series Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jr in the title role. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Milindveekay (talk • contribs) 06:18, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Because those aren't canonical or extra-canonical written works, they are adaptations of the written word. They can be found here: Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes. TuckerResearch (talk) 03:30, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

"The Mystery of the Spot Ball"?

What can anybody say about the canonicity of "The Mystery of the Spot Ball," published in Edinburgh University's student newspaper The Student in 1893? Richard Lancelyn Green published a facsimile of it: "The Mystery of the Spot Ball": An Unrecorded 1893 Sherlock Holmes Parody from the Edinburgh Student, Rupert Books monograph series, (Cambridge: Rupert Books, 1997). Green, in the appendix to the Oxford University Press edition of The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 319, states: "It ["The Field Bazaar"] was ACD's first contribution to the Student, though the issue... for 29 June 1893 (New Series, 7/20, pp. 322-6) had 'an unauthorised adventure of Sherlock Holmes' by 'C', called 'The Mystery of the Spot Ball'." It appears from the verbiage that Arthur Conan Doyle did not write "The Mystery of the Spot Ball," but does anybody else have any information on it? Who is "C"? This website, for instance, places "The Mystery of the Spot Ball" with Conan Doyle's other parodies, "The Field Bazaar" and "How Watson Learned the Trick." Which is it? Anybody know? TuckerResearch (talk) 02:03, 8 September 2013 (UTC)