2010 sees the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) the author who created Sherlock Holmes. Yet the life of this mould-breaking author, creator of the first soap opera, and the world;s greatest detective was at times as dark and as mysterious as the man he created. But how was this extraordinary character formed and .... did he.... As so many believe .... really exist? The real story behind the creation of this Victorian Phenomenon is both disturbing and mystifying. It takes the viewer on a journey through the Edinburgh of the young Conan Doyle and the darker influences in his life and on into the streets of London and creation of the Holmes legend on the streets now walked by the infamous Jack the Ripper. What also was it about Holmes that captured the imagination of society as it entered the exciting, different yet frightening world of the 20th century a century that threatened to pull apart the fabric of everything that was known and everything that had seemed certain. Could Holmes shed some light on matters? With dramatic visualizations, contributions from leading Holmesian experts, figures from the world of literature and research and evidence from the medical community, the Sherlock Holmes enigma is dissected and the truth begins to emerge. From the producers of the acclaimed Unmasking Jack the Ripper, The Man who murdered SHERLOCK HOLMES explores the world of Sherlock Holmes and discovers the truth behind his love hate relationship for Conan Doyle s meal ticket detective creation... and asks the question, what was it that made him fight to kill off the man who had dominated his life for so long in one dramatic episode.

夏洛克•福尔摩斯毫无疑问是世界上最著名的小说侦探，人们对这位传奇侦探的兴趣从未如此高过。但这个人物背后的灵感是什么呢？他为什么如此流行呢？阿瑟•柯南•道尔爵士以真实的外科医生为原型塑造了福尔摩斯的非常推理和观察力，并加入了他自己的初级法医技术，来创作出这位小说侦探。在需要用目击报告和确凿的证据来宣判罪犯的时代，警察的不称职意味着“开膛手杰克”能逍遥法外，而夏洛克•福尔摩斯的罪案现场方法是革命性的。法医科学家，犯罪历史学家和夏洛克专家，首次揭露了这名小说侦探对于现实的犯罪调查和法医技术的惊人影响。

一千个人就有一千个福尔摩斯。一百多年来，这位历史上最著名的侦探从书中走上舞台，不管是舞台剧，还是电影和电视剧，各位才华横溢的演员用自己的表演让夏洛克·福尔摩斯一直活跃在银幕上和观众的视线中。本片按照时间顺序向观众介绍了不同版本和特点的福尔摩斯，让这位大名鼎鼎的神探的形象更加鲜明。

阿瑟·柯南·道尔爵士塑造了侦探夏洛克·福尔摩斯的形象，一个多世纪之后依然有着广泛的知名度和深远的影响。对现代法医学、犯罪学，甚至自然科学等领域都有启示作用。福尔摩斯的形象也无数次在大荧幕和电视剧作品中出现。

Christopher Lee hosts an overview of Sherlock Holmes as Arthur Conan Doyle wrote of him, as portrayed on the stage, on radio, television, and in the motion pictures by dozens of actors from 1900 to 1985.

This series follows in the footsteps of Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley On The Mystery Queen with Lucy scouring archives, meeting experts, descendants and fans. Weaving historical context with personal history, she sets Doyle and his creation against the seismic world events and changes happening around them.
Lucy unearths Sherlock’s origins in Conan Doyle’s early life as a medical student, unpicking his early stories and revealing the dark underbelly of late Victorian Britain - from drug use to true crime. She explores Doyle’s growing disenchantment with his detective creation and desire to distance himself from Sherlock, taking on the role of detective himself, in one of the most important legal cases of the 20th century; and investigates the darkness of his later stories, mirroring the reality of Conan Doyle’s life after the loss of his eldest son, his turn to spiritualism and declining public appeal and spat with a very famous magician. Sherlock Holmes, by contrast, found a life beyond his author, on stage and screen.

一部精致的跨时空生活指南
从衣食住行窥探维多利亚人的秘密
☀当阳光尚未洒过第一扇窗，敲窗人便手拿长竿，提着一盏灯，用“笃笃”的敲窗声挨家挨户地唤醒了委托人。
☀在寒冷的冬日清晨，他们坚持在盥洗台边用牙刷刷牙，用肥皂洗脸。
☀在出门前，他们会用时尚杂志修饰自己的审美，用假发、散粉和雪花膏妆点自己的缺陷与不足。
☀在漫长的工作日，他们始终提着搪瓷桶，只装清淡的食物去上工。
☾在睡房里，半数人至纯至洁，半数人放浪不羁。
体验式历史学家露丝•古德曼以自己为向导，通过讲述维多利亚时代男女从黎明到黄昏的日常琐事，带我们领略了19世纪维多利亚人新奇而充满异域风情的生活，时间跨度长达60年。
古德曼以时间为序，不仅为我们展示了维多利亚人使用的洗具、服饰和化妆品，而且为我们介绍了此时的饮食文化、高新技术和日常工作等。更重要的是，她将理论与个人实践相结合，论证了维多利亚时代在个人卫生、厨房科学和性等方面极大的观念革新，推翻了长久以来对维多利亚人的误解——他们一度被认为是不讲卫生、过分拘谨或沉闷无聊的群体。
翻开本书，你将了解到栩栩如生的历史细节。

这是对19世纪两种非常流行的小说类型——鬼故事和侦探小说——的叙事技巧的原创性，以及它们在当代视觉和视觉理论背景下的惊人相似性的研究。斯尔詹·斯马伊奇认为，要理解作家如何呈现鬼魂目击者和侦探，必须考虑这些作家所使用的同时代科学家、哲学家和唯灵论者的观点：这些观点提出了以下这些问题，例如眼见是否为实，我们所“看到”的究竟有多少内容只是推测出来的，是否有其他(直觉的或精神的)观看方式，使我们能够感知身体感官无法接触到的物体和存在。这本书将对维多利亚时代科学在文化中的理解，以及文学利用各种知识的方式做出了重要贡献。

关于夏洛克·福尔摩斯，相信许多读者已经知之甚详。这位全球知名的侦探出现在大众面前已有一百多年，其魅力至今仍然不减，甚至连他与华生居住的贝克街221B也有众多福迷前往朝圣，一睹作者笔下的世界是否真实存在。
本书收录了福尔摩斯原著以及各种衍生作品的关键词，不仅有案件名，也包含关键登场人物、案发地点、剧本台词、电影游戏等各种相关事物，更加入了当时的伦敦地图，方便各位福迷一路追寻侦探和医生的脚步。从狂热的福尔摩斯原著爱好者到喜欢BBC“神夏”系列的观众，只要是福尔摩斯迷，都可以在本书中获得满满的乐趣！

本书是推理评论作家张璇（笔名：Z总监）的作品合集之一，收录了她近十年来创作的23篇关于英国、美国等欧美国家侦探推理悬疑类文学及影视剧的评论文章，内容囊括了一个多世纪以来侦探推理悬疑类小说和影视剧代表性作品。每篇评论文章从知名作家和他们笔下的侦探以及影视剧中饰演侦探的演员等角度介绍了与他们相关侦探推理作品，深入浅出地分析解读了作品的写作背景、故事情节、文学价值和社会影响，并罕见地以小说及不同版本的影视剧对比分析的角度介绍推理作品。从“英国侦探小说之父”阿瑟·柯南·道尔到“欧美推理小说黄金时代三大家”阿加莎·克里斯蒂、埃勒里·奎因、约翰·迪克森·卡尔，再到现代流行侦探小说作家苏·格拉夫顿、J.K.罗琳等作家的小说以及小说改编影视剧，还包括了由西方作家创作，以华人侦探为主角的作品，以及中国、日本、俄罗斯等国对英美推理小说的翻译介绍和影视改编等。每篇文章相对独立又互为补充，共同组成一部关于欧美地区推理文学影视的百科全书。