David Stuart Davies

David Stuart Davies

David Stuart Davies reading The Game's Afoot: An Encounter with Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle (2015)

David Stuart Davies (10 february 1946 - august 2024) was a British writer and noted sherlockian. He worked as a teacher of English before becoming a full-time editor, writer and playwright. Davies has written extensively about Sherlock Holmes, both fiction and non-fiction. He was co-founder and co-president of The Northern Musgraves Sherlock Holmes Society.

Related to Arthur Conan Doyle, he wrote :

2 sherlockian plays :

• Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act (1999)
• The Game's Afoot: An Encounter with Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle (2015).

8 sherlockian pastiches :

• Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair (1991)
• The Tangled Skein (1995)
• The Scroll of the Dead (1998)
• Shadow of the Rat (1999)
• The Veiled Detective (2004)
• The Game's Afoot (2008)
• The Devil's Promise (2014)
• The Ripper Legacy (2016)

6 sherlockian non-fiction books :

• Holmes of the Movies: The Screen Career of Sherlock Holmes (1977)
• Bending the Willow: Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes (1996)
• Starring Sherlock Holmes: A Century of the Master Detective on Screen (2001)
• Clued Up on Sherlock (2004)
• Dancing in the Moonlight: Jeremy Brett - A Celebration (2006)
• The Further Crossovers of Sherlock Holmes (2017)

He was also the editor of several collections :

• The Best of Sherlock Holmes
• Shadows of Sherlock Holmes
• Stories from the Nineteenth Century
• Tales of Unease
• Return From the Dead
• The Sherlock Holmes Gazette (1991-2005)
• The Mammoth Book of the Sherlock Holmes Adventures (2012)

He also wrote narrating commentaries for the MPI release of the digitally re-mastered Basil Rathbone Holmes films, and he conducted interviews for Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes DVD.

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• Pastiches & Parodies
• Conan Doyle on stage
• Conan Doyle on screen