David Stuart Davies
David Stuart Davies (10 february 1946 - 16 august 2024) was a British writer and noted Doylean and Sherlockian.
Biography
He worked as a teacher of English before becoming a full-time editor, writer, and playwright. Davies wrote extensively about Sherlock Holmes, both fiction and non-fiction. He was co-founder and co-president of The Northern Musgraves Sherlock Holmes Society. He was the editor of Red Herrings, the monthly in-house publication of the Crime Writers' Association, and a member of The Baker Street Irregulars and the Detection Club. Davies died on 16 august 2024, at the age of 78.
Doylean Works
Articles
- The Land of Shadows (1989)
- Editorial of the ACD Journal [vol. 1 No. 2] (1990)
- Literature as a Milkcow (1992)
Reviews
- Medical Casebook of Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle (1989)
- The Idle Trade: On Doctors Who Were Writers (1990)
- The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1991)
Play
Sherlockian Works
Plays
- Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act (1999)
- The Game's Afoot: An Encounter with Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle (2015)
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)
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)
Articles
- Re-creating Sherlock Holmes (1990)
Reviews
- The Dying Detective (1991)
Editor
David was 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.
