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4 unusual facts about A Scandal in Bohemia


A Scandal in Bohemia

He discovers from the local stable workers that Adler has a gentleman friend, the lawyer Godfrey Norton of the Inner Temple, who calls at least once a day.

Films released in 1916 (starring Gillette as Holmes) and 1922 (starring John Barrymore), both titled Sherlock Holmes, were based on the play, as was a 1938 Mercury Theatre on the Air radio adaptation titled The Immortal Sherlock Holmes, starring Orson Welles as Holmes.

George Charles Haité

As sales of the magazine took off with the first of its Sherlock Holmes stories beginning with A Scandal in Bohemia in the July 1891 issue, Haité's graphic rendering of London's Strand looking Eastwards with the magazine title suspended from telegraph wires was destined to become an icon of late-Victorian publishing.

Sebastian Moran

Around half the stories in the collection had previously been published separately: "A Shambles in Belgravia" in BBC Online's Sherlock Holmes anthology, "A Volume in Vermilion" in Sherlock Holmes' Mystery Magazine, "The Red Planet League" in Gaslight Grimoire, and "The Adventure of the Six Maledictions" in Gaslight Arcanum.


46722 Ireneadler

It is named after Irene Adler, a fictional character in the Sherlock Holmes story "A Scandal in Bohemia".

Gasogene

The gasogene is mentioned as a residential fixture at 221B Baker Street in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story A Scandal in Bohemia: "With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner."

The Treasures of Agra

It consists of two episodes: Part One, based on The Sign of the Four (beginning), and Part Two, based on A Scandal in Bohemia and The Sign of the Four (continuation and conclusion).


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