For some reason, I love Sherlock Holmes. It started around 15 years ago when I bought a paperback book with the original Conan Doyle stories. And I was inmediately hooked. There is something comforting about reading those stories. Contrary to popular belief, almost none of them deal with murder. Most are just little petty crimes, which Sherlock manages to solve. Another surprise is the character of Watson. In movies, he is mostly portrayed as a bumblig idiot. In the stories, he is a cultured, intelligent man. By the way, nowhere in the books does Sherlock say "Elementary, my dear Watson"
Recently TCM showed many of the 1940's Basil Rathbone movies and they were ok. Although they are hard to enjoy when Watson is portrayed as an idiot. For my money, the best portryal of Sherlock was by Jeremy Brett in the UK Granada Series which are still shown on the Biography channel on cable tv. That series carries the essence of the Conan Doyle books. Watch it one of these days and begin to enjoy the wonderful world of the greatest detective of all time.
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