With over 250 Holmes adaptations on screen alone (according to Guinness World Records), this list could never be definitive. And yet he is also more than an archetype: his mood swings, his love of the violin, his drug use, and his deep friendship with Dr Watson give him real complexity, and the fact we see him almost solely through Watson’s narration makes it impossible to judge what goes on beneath the surface of his mind. He is more than a detective he is the Victorian equivalent of a superhero: both cleverer and physically stronger than a normal human, protecting England from murder and blackmail and spectral hounds through the power of science and deductive reasoning. Something about Sherlock Holmes remains a perpetual well of inspiration. Since the publication of A Study in Scarlet, the first Holmes story, in 1887, there have been hundreds-perhaps thousands-of adaptations, retellings, studies, and spin-offs related to the famous detective. When I came to write The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep, a book peopled with famous literary characters, I was very excited to create my own version of Sherlock Holmes. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work.
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