Official Site of Award-Winning Author Gretchen Altabef
A TOAST DARLING A tribute in one act. I thought I'd have Sherlock Holmes do the honours. From my storybook, Sherlock Holmes FAR AND WIDE. “I arranged to meet him at the Savoy for tea, but neither of us turned up.” – Jeremy Brett. CAST OF CHARACTERS SHERLOCK HOLMES. The Great Detective. JEREMY BRETT. Shakespearian… Continue reading Happy 92nd Birthday, A TOAST DARLING, Jeremy!
Much of this post is taken from a May 1993 article: "THE CASE OF EDWARD HARDWICKE," by Kate Tyndall for The Washington Post. MANCHESTER, ENGLAND -- Well, I think he's the audience. I think he is the, sort of, receptor of the idea. I think Watson really is every-man and one has to remind oneself that… Continue reading Happy Birthday Watson & Ted
A light went out in many people's lives when he died, for he was one of life's true originals." Anna Massey Jeremy Brett’s possessed, capricious, volatile, dangerous but above all convincingly brilliant Holmes, wipes the memory clean of all previous portrayals. It is not easy to portray genius. Maybe he has to be one." Alan… Continue reading Remembering Jeremy Brett November 3, 1933 – September 12, 1995
A review by Harry DeMaio The Sherlockian world is currently awash with pastiches, analyses, essays, histories, psychological studies and assorted other literary efforts. I have made a few contributions to this torrent myself. Periodically, a volume emerges that is truly different in design and execution. Gretchen Altabef’s The Keys of Death is such a book. She has skillfully combined an excellent mystery… Continue reading The Keys of Death – Another Virtuoso Performance by Gretchen Altabef
“What you do as an actor, for me anyway . . . you learn and assimilate. You read and read and read about the Victorian era. Who was in government? What was the social status of the country? Why was Holmes a bohemian? Then you start to read Doyle and you sort of sniff it… Continue reading Jeremy Brett IS Sherlock Holmes AUDIO BOOK IS OUT!
Italian publisher Mondadori will be publishing an Italian language version of Sherlock Holmes These Scattered Houses in their Il Giallo Mondadori 2022-2023 Sherlock Holmes series. This is a great honor. I am excited that my Italian American Marcello family will be speaking Italian in these books! Of course so will Holmes and the unique villain… Continue reading Stupendo! Splendido! Exciting news!
Michael Cox and Jeremy Brett during the filming of The Naval Treaty. Conan Doyle gave us one of the greatest portraits of friendship in English literature, and we were determined to put that on the screen more faithfully than it had ever been seen before. It's one thing to have a dream, another to hold… Continue reading Michael Cox 1934 – 2021
A fast paced mystery that will keep you thoroughly engaged. A great read! Remarkable Power of Stimulus is the long awaited sequel to These Scattered Houses. It is an intense and exciting adventure from the first chapter to its ending. After 3 years away from his beloved England Sherlock Holmes returns to London with his… Continue reading REVIEW: Remarkable Power of Stimulus
September 9, 2020 Learn 4 Your Life Interview on Jeremy Brett's role as Sherlock Holmes 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… Continue reading David Stuart Davies Interview: Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes
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