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David Stuart Davies Interview: Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes
September 9, 2020 Learn 4 Your Life Interview. Reposted with the permission of David Stuart Davies.
About David
David is a British crime writer, Sherlockian scholar, and editor who visited Jeremy Brett during many of his filming sessions of Sherlock Holmes. His non-fiction books on the subject include:
- Holmes of the Movies: The Screen Career of Sherlock Holmes
- Bending the Willow: Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes
- Starring Sherlock Holmes: A Century of the Master Detective on Screen
- Dancing in the Moonlight: Jeremy Brett – A Celebration
- See below for more information on his writing.
Q: Can you describe how you came to know Jeremy Brett?
At first by watching it on television. I have been a Sherlockian aficionado from childhood. So when the Granada series began showing in the 80’s that was the thing to do. He was so remarkable. Over the years there had been many Sherlock Holmes programs. I am thinking particularly the Basil Rathbone films and the BBC series with Peter Cushing in the 60s. But the Jeremy Brett series seemed to take Conan Doyle stories seriously.
They were trying to bring the Doyle stories to a fresh audience – we are talking about the 1980s. Jeremy wanted to take on the mantle of Holmes because he wanted to bring Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes to the viewing public rather than just a sort of a thrill adventure TV series.
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The tribute, A Toast Darling, was inspired by a humorous reference of Mr Jeremy Brett to a meeting between himself and Mr Sherlock Holmes that neither of them showed up to.
“Boxing Day Brother Mine”, a unique holiday adventure placed in the middle of Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle”. Sherlock brings brother Mycroft into his dilemma.
“Black Peter’s Misplaced Mariners” is an attempt to solve one of the mysteries Conan Doyle so brilliantly left behind in his story, “The Adventure Of Black Peter”.
Altabef wrote her first parody for this volume, “Crime is common. Humour is rare. The Many Deaths of Sherlock Holmes”.
“A Watsonian Conundrum”, was written for The Watsonian Journal.
“Miss Annie Harrison’s Rose Soliloquy” is a reviewing of Doyle’s “Adventure of the Naval Treaty”, from a woman’s perspective.
“Mrs Hudson’s Garden”, was the piece that birthed Altabef’s novel, The Keys of Death.
“A Scandal in Baker Street” asks the question: Wouldn’t Sherlock Holmes want to meet that mysterious someone wishing him “Goodnight” in Baker Street?
FAR & WIDE ends with a reprinting of Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1904 Strand Magazine story, “Adventure Of Black Peter”.
Gretchen Altabef is an award-winning author of sensational new Sherlock Holmes mysteries written from a woman’s perspective. 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 anarchist-ridden Paris. The series continues with FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY. Holmes is called in by Thomas Edison to solve a murder in his unique film studio. While Mrs Irene Adler-Holmes triumphs on Broadway despite the antics of a theater ghost. THE KEYS OF DEATH is a genesis story of 221B Baker Street and its inhabitants, as told by Mrs Hudson. Sherlock Holmes FAR & WIDE mystifies with nine stories and one play, including the award-winning “Sir Arthur And The Time Machine”. View all posts by Gretchen Altabef
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