The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Part I of III by Matthew R. Bradley

The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Part I of III by Matthew R. Bradley The Granada Television productions starring Jeremy Brett adapted 43 of the 60 works in the Sherlock Holmes canon by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) into 41 episodes, two of which drew upon a pair of short stories each. Those 41 comprise four series: The Adventures… (1984-1985), …Return… (1986-1988), …Case-Book… (1991-1993), and …Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1994). The titles match four of the five books collecting all 56 short stories, the majority of which were first published in The Strand Magazine—Adventures (1892), Memoirs (1894), Return (1905), Case-Book (1927)—with the outlier being His Last Bow (1917), yet there was not a one-to-one correspondence between them. Granada’s Return included adaptations of 11 stories scattered among all except The Case-Book, which I will analyze in this three-part post, as well as two of the four novels, The Sign of the Four (1890) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902). In the…