The Perils of Sherlock Holmes
“It reflects my personal sentiments about the importance of Dr. Watson to the Canon; and I’m pleased to report that the entertainment industry has come round to my way of thinking in the way he’s now portrayed on TV and in the movies. This version has been revised to address a twenty-first-century audience, with background on the original Holmes series excised as extraneous and new material added.
I submit for your inspection one John H. Watson: medical man, late British Army surgeon, raconteur,... journalist, connoisseur of women, Knight of the Battered Tin Dispatch-Box, valiant and loyal friend.
He has suffered mightily at the hands of scholars and the public since the 1887 appearance of A Study in Scarlet in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, calumniated on the one hand as a tanglefooted incompetent and on the other as a boozy Bluebeard, to say nothing of sundry slanderous impostitures his admirers have been forced to endure, beginning in 1905, when Sherlock Holmes and his indispensable biographer made their silent-screen debut.MoreLess
I submit for your inspection one John H. Watson: medical man, late British Army surgeon, raconteur,... journalist, connoisseur of women, Knight of the Battered Tin Dispatch-Box, valiant and loyal friend.
He has suffered mightily at the hands of scholars and the public since the 1887 appearance of A Study in Scarlet in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, calumniated on the one hand as a tanglefooted incompetent and on the other as a boozy Bluebeard, to say nothing of sundry slanderous impostitures his admirers have been forced to endure, beginning in 1905, when Sherlock Holmes and his indispensable biographer made their silent-screen debut.MoreLess
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