Benedict Cumberbatch, left, and Martin Freeman

Sherlock stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman could still be playing the successful sleuths in 20 years if the show's co-creator Mark Gatiss gets his way.

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Edgar Allan Poe given funeral 160 years after his mysterious death

American master of the horror story is finally told to rest in peace

The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle, By Russell Miller

Allowed access to the Conan Doyle archive of Richard Lancelyn Green, whose probable suicide seems contrived as a Holmesian mystery, Miller has produced an epic portrait, though the Holmes yarns are treated somewhat sketchily.

Unfinished Greene mystery found by French academic

Lost murder mystery to be published by magazine, but still needs an ending

All quiet on the grunting front

Despite the warnings, Michelle Larcher de Brito was less than ear-splitting yesterday, writes Brian Viner on a peaceful Court 17

Games Review: Sherlock Holmes: the Mystery of the Mummy

DS, Ubisoft, £29.99

The Rachel McAdams capers

Playing an ambitious blogger in 'State of Play' and the inamorata in a new Sherlock Holmes film is all in a day's work for Rachel McAdams. The actress talks to Lesley O'Toole

The curious case of the author who would not die

The characters are cardboard, the plots rely on chance and the settings are implausible. But no one can resist an Agatha Christie, says Barry Forshaw

Mr Dick, or The Tenth Book, By Jean-Pierre Ohl, trans. Christine Donougher

An old curiosity shop of a book – with a twist of literary malice

Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan, ed Gordon Jarvie

So many of these tales are concerned with loss and death – the loss of children or a partner, or the threat of extinction from an alien hand – that it's no surprise to learn many were written either against the backdrop of war or famine, or about a specific battle or conflict. The hope of survival in another form is apparent too, with vanished lovers or children being transformed into birds or animals, giving many of the stories an added poignancy.

'It's elementary, you slag,' Ritchie does Sherlock Holmes

Guy Ritchie's next film abandons gangsters for 'Sherlock Holmes'. Here's a sneak preview of the script

Victorian murder mystery inspires book prize winner

When a three-year-old was brutally murdered in an urbane Wiltshire household in 1860, the crime created a national frenzy and sparked an entire new literary genre of the aristocratic "country house murder".

Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Hollywood duel

Sherlock Holmes, the pipe-smoking Victorian super-sleuth with a penchant for cocaine, is to become the subject of a face-off by two Hollywood studios which are both bringing out films about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's literary hero.

Trail Of The Unexpected: The game is afoot... Sherlock Holmes and the FA Cup connection

As Portsmouth FC take on Cardiff City in this afternoon's FA Cup final, the players from Pompey (as the team is always known) may find themselves watched over by the spirit of an erstwhile goalkeeper and leading light of Victorian England.

The Great British quiz: How well do you know your country?

Can you tell your sports stadia from your stately homes? Reckon you’re an expert on everything from Dickens and Shakespeare to pork pies and potted shrimps? Enter our quiz – and win a fabulous hamper from Fortnum & Mason
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