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In The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
…such as the BBC series Sherlock (2010–2017), Adler is both a femme fatale and a decided love interest of the great detective’s. Other highlights in the collection are the eerie “The Red-Headed League,” where criminals offer a red-headed man employment copying entries from Encyclopaedia Britannica as a ruse to keep…
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In Benedict Cumberbatch: Breakthrough as Sherlock Holmes
…in the BBC television series Sherlock, based on the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The adaptation placed the characters of the classic Victorian-era tales in 21st-century London and captured viewers’ imaginations with its contemporary Holmes, who used nicotine patches (a nod to Conan Doyle’s pipe-smoking Holmes) and was a…
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