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There are, of course, gaffers who insist that the one true Sherlock Holmes was William Gillette, who made a career early in this century playing the detective in a drama he devised from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories. There are also striplings who claim, in their innocence, that Peter Cushing's impersonation of the Great Gumshoe in the 1960s was quite acceptable. But anyone who was around in the 1940s knows that the detective's only authorized dramatic representative was Basil Rathbone.* With his incisive features and voice, Rathbone was one of the few actors...
...which the dynamic duo were ripped out of their natural Edwardian environment and improbably set to chasing Nazi spies during World War II-they never abandoned the expert standards they set in this, the first of their pairings, now re-released along with the great Buster Keaton silent Sherlock Jr. and an oddly touching interview with Conan Doyle...
Michael Crichton's THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (Knopf; 266 pages; $7.95) happily contributes to the current revival of British imperial style. In Sherlock Holmes reprints, The Great Victorian Collection and innumerable biographies, Victoria Regina rides again. For this intricate mystery, her very nation moves to life. The vowel sounds and alley reeks, the technological detail and social lacunae-all are here, ornamenting a tale based on the celebrated 1850 heist...
...woman, but by no means free from grave personal risks." Not to put too fine a point on it, she becomes a detective. As this surprising anthology of 15 mystery tales demonstrates, the lady was hardly alone. The sisterhood began digging up clues a quarter-century before Sherlock Holmes appeared on Baker Street. They have been at it ever since...
...Constant Wife, Bergman is Constance Middleton, an amiable, idle woman who plays hostess to life in a well-appointed drawing room. Her husband John (Jack Gwillim) is a prosperous Harley Street surgeon who is having an affair with Constance's best friend, a blonde married flibbertigibbet. Omniscient as Sherlock Holmes and calmative as Candida, Constance knows all about it and does not wish to be told. But friends will tell...