David Stuart Davies
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
David Stuart Davies (10 february 1946 - august 2024) was a British writer and noted sherlockian. He worked as a teacher of English before becoming a full-time editor, writer and playwright. Davies has written extensively about Sherlock Holmes, both fiction and non-fiction. He was co-founder and co-president of The Northern Musgraves Sherlock Holmes Society.
Related to Arthur Conan Doyle, he wrote :
2 sherlockian plays :
- Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act (1999)
- The Game's Afoot: An Encounter with Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle (2015).
8 sherlockian pastiches :
- Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair (1991)
- The Tangled Skein (1995)
- The Scroll of the Dead (1998)
- Shadow of the Rat (1999)
- The Veiled Detective (2004)
- The Game's Afoot (2008)
- The Devil's Promise (2014)
- The Ripper Legacy (2016)
6 sherlockian non-fiction books :
- Holmes of the Movies: The Screen Career of Sherlock Holmes (1977)
- Bending the Willow: Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes (1996)
- Starring Sherlock Holmes: A Century of the Master Detective on Screen (2001)
- Clued Up on Sherlock (2004)
- Dancing in the Moonlight: Jeremy Brett - A Celebration (2006)
- The Further Crossovers of Sherlock Holmes (2017)
He was also the editor of several collections :
- The Best of Sherlock Holmes
- Shadows of Sherlock Holmes
- Stories from the Nineteenth Century
- Tales of Unease
- Return From the Dead
- The Sherlock Holmes Gazette (1991-2005)
- The Mammoth Book of the Sherlock Holmes Adventures (2012)
He also wrote narrating commentaries for the MPI release of the digitally re-mastered Basil Rathbone Holmes films, and he conducted interviews for Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes DVD.
