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"A Scandal in Bohemia" is the first short story, and the third overall work, featuring Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It is the first of the 56 Holmes short stories written by Doyle and the first of 38 Sherlock Holmes works illustrated by Sidney Paget .
Sherlock Holmes (/ ˈ ʃ ɜːr l ɒ k ˈ h oʊ m z /) is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.Referring to himself as a "consulting detective" in his stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients ...
The episode was based on "A Scandal in Bohemia", a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The episode depicts Sherlock Holmes' (Benedict Cumberbatch) confrontation with Irene Adler (Lara Pulver), a dominatrix who has compromising photographs taken with a female member of the royal family. The photographs are stored inside her mobile phone ...
"A Scandal in Bohemia" is the first episode of the series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the first series in the Sherlock Holmes series which is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories. The series was produced by the British television company Granada Television between 1984 and 1994 and star Jeremy Brett as the famous detective.
A former opera singer and actress, she was featured in the short story "A Scandal in Bohemia", published in July 1891. Adler is one of the most notable female characters in the Sherlock Holmes series, despite appearing in only one story. While not technically a criminal and bearing no malice towards Holmes, she outsmarts him and evades his traps.
Illustration by Sidney Paget of Sherlock Holmes, from "The Man with the Twisted Lip". The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes were well received upon their serialisation in The Strand Magazine. [24] Following the publication of "A Scandal in Bohemia" in July 1891, the Hull Daily Mail described the story as being "worthy of the inventive genius" of ...
Edith Meiser also adapted the story for the radio series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson. The episode aired on 27 October 1940. [ 17 ] Other episodes adapted from the story aired on 28 May 1943, [ 18 ] and on 2 June 1947 (with Tom Conway as Holmes and Bruce as Watson). [ 19 ]
A scandal in may refer to: "A Scandal in Belgravia", the first episode of the second series of the BBC crime drama series Sherlock; A Scandal in Belgravia, 1991 book by British author Robert Barnard "A Scandal in Bohemia", the first short story, and the third overall work, featuring Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes