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Which Novels Inspired Scenes In The Sherlock Holmes Series?
2025-08-29 15:31:19
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Mitchell
2025-08-30 17:54:35
Which scene do I think was directly born from an older novel? Hard to pin one-to-one, but I love spotting the fingerprints: the clinical, almost scientific peeks at a crime scene echo Poe; family curses and treasure backstories owe a debt to 'The Moonstone'; serialized clue-chasing reflects Gaboriau’s method. And Doyle peppered everything with true-crime and imperial-era travel detail from newspapers — that’s why 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' feels equal parts gothic legend and detective procedural.
Flynn
2025-08-31 16:01:08
I’m in my sixties and still get a kick from tracing literary influence. The short list: Poe’s detective tales (notably 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue') for Holmes’s logical, almost laboratory-like deductions; Wilkie Collins’s 'The Moonstone' for stolen-jewel plot mechanics and emotional subplots; and Émile Gaboriau for serialized, police-led plotting. Doyle also pulled from real-life cases and contemporary reports.
Beyond those older novels, Doyle’s own novels — 'A Study in Scarlet', 'The Sign of Four', 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', 'The Valley of Fear' — supplied scenes later adapted in stage and screen versions. Modern retellings often echo or rework scenes directly from those books, so reading both the antecedent novels and Doyle side-by-side reveals the lineage clearly. It’s a simple but rewarding way to appreciate how detective fiction evolved.
Beyond those older novels, Doyle’s own novels — 'A Study in Scarlet', 'The Sign of Four', 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', 'The Valley of Fear' — supplied scenes later adapted in stage and screen versions. Modern retellings often echo or rework scenes directly from those books, so reading both the antecedent novels and Doyle side-by-side reveals the lineage clearly. It’s a simple but rewarding way to appreciate how detective fiction evolved.
Stella
2025-09-01 09:43:56
I like mapping literary family trees, and with Holmes it’s really about lineage rather than single-source copying. Start with Poe for the method, Collins for the emotive plot devices, and Gaboriau for the procedural feel — then wander into Doyle’s own novels and the adaptations to see how those strands get re-woven into scenes you recognize.
Alice
2025-09-01 10:34:56
Which novels inspired scenes in Sherlock Holmes? As a longtime fan who argues this topic at coffee tables, I’ll say: the obvious literary ancestors are Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, and Émile Gaboriau, and the most direct scene-by-scene inspirations often come from Doyle’s own earlier or contemporary sources.
BBC and film adaptations make the links explicit — for example, 'A Study in Pink' borrows beats from 'A Study in Scarlet', 'The Hounds of Baskerville' riffs on 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', and 'The Reichenbach Fall' lifts from 'The Final Problem'. But beyond that, Poe’s method scenes (tiny deductions, lock-room puzzles) are foundational, Collins’s melodramatic jewel-theft and multi-narrator setups are echoed in many Holmes capers, and Gaboriau gave procedural shape to serialized mysteries.
If you like detective fiction history, try comparing a Poe story, 'The Moonstone', and a Gaboriau novel with an early Holmes case — you’ll see how Doyle recombined those elements into scenes that feel crisp, theatrical, and enduring. It’s one of those reading exercises that makes both the originals and Holmes richer to me.
BBC and film adaptations make the links explicit — for example, 'A Study in Pink' borrows beats from 'A Study in Scarlet', 'The Hounds of Baskerville' riffs on 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', and 'The Reichenbach Fall' lifts from 'The Final Problem'. But beyond that, Poe’s method scenes (tiny deductions, lock-room puzzles) are foundational, Collins’s melodramatic jewel-theft and multi-narrator setups are echoed in many Holmes capers, and Gaboriau gave procedural shape to serialized mysteries.
If you like detective fiction history, try comparing a Poe story, 'The Moonstone', and a Gaboriau novel with an early Holmes case — you’ll see how Doyle recombined those elements into scenes that feel crisp, theatrical, and enduring. It’s one of those reading exercises that makes both the originals and Holmes richer to me.
Carter
2025-09-01 11:30:37
I’m the kind of person who tucks notes into books, and when I compare Sherlock Holmes scenes to older novels I see a lot of direct influence. Poe’s stories — 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Purloined Letter' — gave Doyle the concept of a detective who deduces from tiny physical clues and the power of a staged intellectual reveal. Read Holmes’s deduction scenes back-to-back with Poe and you’ll feel the kinship.
Wilkie Collins’s 'The Moonstone' is another big one: its focus on a stolen gem, the tangled family consequences, and shifting point-of-view sections laid groundwork for similar Holmes plots like jewel thefts and multipart investigations. Then there’s Émile Gaboriau’s police-oriented narratives (think 'L'Affaire Lerouge'), which mattered for structure — serialized clues, official investigations, and the interplay of amateur sleuthing with police work. Doyle also borrowed from contemporary newspapers and travel narratives, which is most obvious in 'The Sign of Four' with its imperial backstory.
If you enjoy comparative reading, try pairing one Holmes novella with a Poe tale and 'The Moonstone' — you’ll be surprised how scenes and moods echo across time. It turns detective fiction into a conversation across authors and decades, and I find that incredibly satisfying.
Wilkie Collins’s 'The Moonstone' is another big one: its focus on a stolen gem, the tangled family consequences, and shifting point-of-view sections laid groundwork for similar Holmes plots like jewel thefts and multipart investigations. Then there’s Émile Gaboriau’s police-oriented narratives (think 'L'Affaire Lerouge'), which mattered for structure — serialized clues, official investigations, and the interplay of amateur sleuthing with police work. Doyle also borrowed from contemporary newspapers and travel narratives, which is most obvious in 'The Sign of Four' with its imperial backstory.
If you enjoy comparative reading, try pairing one Holmes novella with a Poe tale and 'The Moonstone' — you’ll be surprised how scenes and moods echo across time. It turns detective fiction into a conversation across authors and decades, and I find that incredibly satisfying.
Blake
2025-09-01 14:47:27
I can geek out about this for ages — and the short version is that Sherlock Holmes didn’t spring from a vacuum. Arthur Conan Doyle built many of his famous scenes on the shoulders of earlier mystery writers and real-life models.
Edgar Allan Poe is the obvious starting point: stories like 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Purloined Letter' helped codify the locked-room puzzle and the ratiocination detective, and you can feel that influence in Holmes’s analytical, step-by-step reveals. Then there’s Wilkie Collins’s 'The Moonstone', which practically invented the English sensation/detective novel; its jewel-theft focus and the way multiple perspectives are used echo through Doyle’s own jewel-and-theft tales. French writer Émile Gaboriau (try 'L'Affaire Lerouge') contributed police-procedure elements and serialized plotting that Doyle absorbed.
On top of literary influences, Doyle drew from actual cases and the personality of his teacher Dr. Joseph Bell for Holmes’s clinical observation. Later adaptations — the BBC’s 'A Study in Pink' (from 'A Study in Scarlet') or 'The Hounds of Baskerville' (from 'The Hound of the Baskervilles') — explicitly lift scenes and beats from those novels, but even the original canon is braided with earlier mystery conventions. If you love tracing origins, comparing those older novels with Holmes stories is a delightful rabbit hole that keeps giving.
Edgar Allan Poe is the obvious starting point: stories like 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Purloined Letter' helped codify the locked-room puzzle and the ratiocination detective, and you can feel that influence in Holmes’s analytical, step-by-step reveals. Then there’s Wilkie Collins’s 'The Moonstone', which practically invented the English sensation/detective novel; its jewel-theft focus and the way multiple perspectives are used echo through Doyle’s own jewel-and-theft tales. French writer Émile Gaboriau (try 'L'Affaire Lerouge') contributed police-procedure elements and serialized plotting that Doyle absorbed.
On top of literary influences, Doyle drew from actual cases and the personality of his teacher Dr. Joseph Bell for Holmes’s clinical observation. Later adaptations — the BBC’s 'A Study in Pink' (from 'A Study in Scarlet') or 'The Hounds of Baskerville' (from 'The Hound of the Baskervilles') — explicitly lift scenes and beats from those novels, but even the original canon is braided with earlier mystery conventions. If you love tracing origins, comparing those older novels with Holmes stories is a delightful rabbit hole that keeps giving.
Thomas
2025-09-03 06:57:50
If you want the quick reading map: the Holmes canon itself contains four novels — 'A Study in Scarlet', 'The Sign of Four', 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', and 'The Valley of Fear' — and many of their scenes echo earlier detective novels. Edgar Allan Poe’s 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Purloined Letter' inspired Holmes’s deductive reasoning scenes and locked-room logic, while Wilkie Collins’s 'The Moonstone' influenced jewel-theft plotlines and the use of multiple narrators. Émile Gaboriau’s works added procedural structure and serialized suspense that Doyle absorbed.
So, when you’re reading a Holmes scene with a clever reveal or a stolen jewel, there’s a good chance it’s part of a longer tradition going back to Poe, Collins, and continental detective fiction.
So, when you’re reading a Holmes scene with a clever reveal or a stolen jewel, there’s a good chance it’s part of a longer tradition going back to Poe, Collins, and continental detective fiction.
Finn
2025-09-03 19:12:30
Sometimes I dive into origin-tracing like a hobby, and with Sherlock Holmes the trail points to a few clear novels. Poe’s detective tales (most famously 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue') essentially handed Doyle the idea of a brilliant, eccentric sleuth who uses pure deduction — so a lot of Holmes’s most iconic analytical scenes owe something to Poe’s tone and techniques. Wilkie Collins’s 'The Moonstone' introduced multi-threaded, sentimental plots and jewel-theft twists; read it and then reread Holmes’s capers involving stolen gems and you’ll spot the family drama + detective formula.
Then there’s Émile Gaboriau — his police-centred novels such as 'L'Affaire Lerouge' helped normalize serialized clues, red herrings, and procedural detail that Doyle adapted. On the flip side, many Holmes scenes are also riffed from actual news stories or courtroom drama of the time; Doyle used snippets of contemporary scandal and travel literature to color backstories in 'The Sign of Four' and 'A Study in Scarlet'. For a fun project, compare a Poe locked-room tale, 'The Moonstone', and a Gaboriau mystery to an early Holmes story — the DNA lines up in surprising ways.
Then there’s Émile Gaboriau — his police-centred novels such as 'L'Affaire Lerouge' helped normalize serialized clues, red herrings, and procedural detail that Doyle adapted. On the flip side, many Holmes scenes are also riffed from actual news stories or courtroom drama of the time; Doyle used snippets of contemporary scandal and travel literature to color backstories in 'The Sign of Four' and 'A Study in Scarlet'. For a fun project, compare a Poe locked-room tale, 'The Moonstone', and a Gaboriau mystery to an early Holmes story — the DNA lines up in surprising ways.
Noah
2025-09-04 20:55:18
I tend to approach this like a reading scavenger hunt: pick a Holmes scene you love and then hunt for echoes in older works. Poe’s locked-room logic, Collins’s stolen-gem melodrama in 'The Moonstone', and Gaboriau’s serialized police procedure are the big three that planted seeds Doyle cultivated. Then read Doyle’s four novels — 'A Study in Scarlet', 'The Sign of Four', 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', and 'The Valley of Fear' — alongside those predecessors to see the similarities. Comparing scenes is fun and gives you fresh appreciation for how Doyle blended influences into something unmistakably his own.
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Honestly, I find it faithful in tone and character more than in plot details. Watching it with friends after re-reading 'A Study in Scarlet' made that clear: the DNA is Doyle’s, but the skin is modern. It’s like a remix I adore, even when it takes liberties.
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I used to rewatch episodes late at night and pay attention to how the music swells in the quieter moments — that's very much Price's handiwork layered on Arnold's themes. If you're hunting for the credits, both names appear across the series; together they shaped that clever, contemporary take on Holmes that made the music almost a character in its own right.
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