Baker Street Irregulars discussion

Hey! Anyone up for reading this novel? I'm really excited about this one (: I'm currently reading the Holmesian canon in order, and it's time for this baby.

I'm sure many of the people on the forum have read it, but hope you enjoy it and want to see your thoughts when you're done. There is a publisher called MX Publishing that has been doing a lot of anthologies of new Holmes short stories - a couple of them are stories that are supposed to start out like there is some supernatural force at work, but the solution is "man made." I always think it is The Hound that is the classic of that description.
I only wish a really good movie could be made - I've seen a couple and none of them really hit the mark.

try peter cushing the hound of the baskervilles

There have to be a dozen or more filmed versions of the Hound. I've seen a number of them, and don't think any of them truly hit the mark. But the '72 TV version that cast William Shatner as Stapleton, with a flashback as Sir Hugo - entertaining, to say the least.

i think i remembef that one

I was reading on another forum that a guy wanted to know if HOUN was in public domain because he wanted to turn it into a musical!

i would be interested in that!

There have been a couple parodies of HOUN - one has 3 actors playing 15 roles - but I don't know if any have music
There is a musical "Baker Street".

Barbara wrote: "I'm sure many of the people on the forum have read it, but hope you enjoy it and want to see your thoughts when you're done. There is a publisher called MX Publishing that has been doing a lot of a..."
Both the Jeremy Brett and the Peter Cushing versions are the best of the bunch.

Outlander wrote: "Barbara wrote: "I'm sure many of the people on the forum have read it, but hope you enjoy it and want to see your thoughts when you're done. There is a publisher called MX Publishing that has been ..."

I'm currently enjoying watching the Peter Cushing version. I appreciate that Watson isn't the bumbling fool that Nigel Bruce portrayed.

The BBC version with Peter Cushing (a great actor) was very good but the Granada version with Jeremy Brett (another great actor) was superior. The other differences between the two versions which made the Granada version better were the closer use of the canon for story and dialogue as well as the outfits from the Paget drawings.

Call it nit picking but it's not true to the canon. For example, in the BBC version of The Hound of the Baskervilles Dr Mortimer was played by an older actor - not as the doctor was described in the canon. Sir Henry Baskerville was coming to London from South Africa - not from Canada as was described in the canon.

I almost want to see this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXA87...

Barbara wrote: "I almost want to see this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXA87..."

I watched the excerpt on the link. It looks very much like the usual fare on offer at the Fringe Festival, basically anything to get you noticed and in the press. I don't think there is a chance in hell of me going to watch this production.

A while back I reviewed a novel by Jim Nelson called "A Man Named Baskerville", which is an immediate sequel to HOUN - as Stapleton/Rodger Baskerville escapes pursuit, he narrates the history from his youth in Latin America, his marriage to Beryl Garcia and his return to England to claim his inheritance the foiled plot and his flight into the Grimpen Mire.
I gave it 4 stars (would have gone 4.5 - Goodreads doesn't let you give half stars) because I had one or two quibbles with the plot and rendering of Holmes' character, but I have to say, this was one of the most original and well written (though with some violence) Holmes novels I've read recently. Interesting because it was self-published, and I read it around the same time I read a traditionally published HOUN sequel that wasn't nearly as well done.

I read that a UK theatre will be producing a stage version of HOUN in May of '25. The promo says that it will be "packed with hilarious comedy and slapstick humor."