Just received a copy of the book I edited for Maureen Whittaker, JEREMY BRETT IS SHERLOCK HOLMES. Gorgeously translated into Japanese.
Japanese Version. English Version. English Digital Version.
This new Japanese version gives me the chance to again tell you about this splendid book. Maureen Whittaker’s superbly researched history of Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes. Taken from the larger book that spans the whole of Jeremy’s career, Jeremy Brett Playing a Part. It is filled with quotes by Mr Brett and those of his cast and crew, along with the positive reviews he received for Granada’s #1 show, seen in over 70 countries worldwide.
Photographs from the Sherlock Holmes series are well-placed throughout the book and add another dimension to the attention to detail that was so much a part of this series. From A Scandal in Bohemia to The Cardboard Box, and the golden year of the play, The Secret of Sherlock Holmes, Jeremy Brett’s excellence as an actor, author, director, and star shines through every aspect. And Sherlock Holmes Books has added to that prestige with the production of this book.
Mr Brett took great pains to keep each script as close to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories as possible. He was extremely proud of the fact that he and his crew proved without a doubt that it was possible and fortuitous to transfer Doyle’s words straight from the Strand Magazine onto film.
In these films as nowhere else do we experience Conan Doyle’s dialogue word-for-word between these two most famous friends, Holmes and Watson. And the speeches of co-stars, exactly as he wrote them. Miss Stoner states, “It is Fear, Mr Holmes. It is terror.” Miss Harrison confronts Holmes over his impertinence in the Naval Treaty. Professor Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes duel using nothing but the rapier language of genius as Doyle imagined it
The New York Times reported, Jeremy Brett makes a truly splendid Sherlock; vain, arrogant, imperious, rude.”
“No other Holmes has come close to Brett’s portrayal of the brilliant but obsessed mind, teetering on the knife edge dividing madness and genius.” (IMDB.)
Alan Barnes in Sherlock Holmes Onscreen, about Jeremy Brett’s performance as Holmes, “The standout scene in the first episode recorded, ‘The Solitary Cyclist,’ where Holmes confronts the repulsive Jack Woodley. . . In just one minor sequence, Peter Cushing’s arch superman, John Neville’s self-righteous physicality and Basil Rathbone’s sharp superiority are fused into a fascinating whole.”
Gretchen Altabef is an award-winning author of new Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Her books brim with imagination and a news reporter’s excitement for the true history of the day. THESE SCATTERED HOUSES brings Holmes to New York during his ‘great hiatus’. REMARKABLE POWER OF STIMULUS follows in London. During the investigation of a gruesome murder, Sherlock seizes a second chance with the woman, and they marry in an anarchist-ridden Paris. The trilogy continues with FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY, where Holmes returns to New York to solve a murder in Thomas Edison’s premier film studio, and Mrs Irene Adler-Holmes triumphs on Broadway. THE KEYS OF DEATH is a genesis story of the world’s most famous address, 221B Baker Street and it’s new inhabitants, as told by Mrs Hudson.
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