These are all great.
Love that fanart tribute to Moftiss

Last edited by ukaunz (March 1, 2016 10:47 pm)

Sherlock Holmes with Mrs. Hudson

The master blackmailer, Charles Augustus Milverton, being shot by a mysterious woman, whose husband comitted suicide because of the rascal:

Sidney Paget:



Sherlock Holmes museum:



Granada:






Russian version:












In BBC version, the vengeful woman is merged with Sherlock´s client and is made innocent. Another vengeful woman takes her place in her rage over the possible loss of her husband. But that newcomer is so clumsy, she shoots Sherlock instead of the blackmailer:



And Sherlock has to finish her mess for her:

Shooting the Wall

Granada version


Downey Jr. Version


BBC Cumberbatch version

Last edited by BrettHolmes (March 2, 2016 4:43 pm)

Aw, nakahara, you beat me to it I didn't realise there was a Russian version of the scene.

Excellent work, BrettHolmes. I just had a look for the TAB version of the wallpaper to add to the collection, this is the best I could find. You can just see the "VR" if you look very carefully.

Last edited by ukaunz (March 2, 2016 8:48 pm)

That's cool, I hadn't seen that either (though I hadn't been looking for it, either). I haven't read that story yet, what does "VR" mean?

It's from the opening paragraph of The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual, which provides a wonderful description of the flat and Sherlock's untidy habits:

An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress, he was none the less in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction. Not that I am in the least conventional in that respect myself. The rough-and-tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on the top of a natural Bohemianism of disposition, has made me rather more lax than befits a medical man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs. I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer humors, would sit in an arm-chair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V. R. done in bullet-pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it.

Last edited by ukaunz (March 3, 2016 3:02 am)

This thread is a gold mine for any Sherlock fan! 

The perfume of some dangerous woman seems to be a reoccuring theme, starting with Basil Rathbone movies:

Deadly "five orange pips" originally appeared as a sinister Ku-Klux-Clan signs in ACD´s short story:





These little beacons of death then made their reappearance in Basil Rathbone movie "The House of Fear", where the gradually dwindling number of pips foretold the death of an individual members of the elderly bachelor´s organisation:





In "Sherlock", the five orange pips first featured in "The Great Game". They were transformed into the phone-pips and their dwindling number now indicated the number of tasks for Sherlock assigned to him by Moriarty:




In "The Abominable Bride", the pips returned in their original number and role as the beacons of death sent to the victim by a deadly organisation:

Last edited by nakahara (March 5, 2016 8:47 pm)