Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is the rare character who has outlived his author, his era, and even his own death. Arthur Conan Doyle's four novels and fifty-six stories are the bedrock here, collected and recollected in dozens of editions, from The Hound of the Baskervilles to His Last Bow.

The adaptations are where the franchise truly spans media. Decades of television, from the Soviet-era Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to the modernized 2010s series, sit alongside Guy Ritchie's brawling, steampunk-tinged films and Frogwares' long-running detective games, which let you do the actual deducing.

What holds it together across page, screen, and controller is the method. Every good Holmes, in any medium, lives or dies on whether the reasoning feels earned rather than magical.

The Sherlock Holmes franchise spans 6 series, 32 books, 10 games, 4 movies in the CrossBinge catalog.