• ANINDITA DUTTA

Sherlock Holmes, the widely popular fictional detective was an outstanding creation of the Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The ‘Sherlock Holmes phenomenon’ began with Doyle introducing Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to readers in his first detective novel ‘A Study in Scarlet’. Doyle’s great canon comprised his original works, the four novels and fifty six stories he has written on Holmes during his lifetime. The overwhelming popularity of Sherlock Holmes however did not diminish even after Arthur Conan Doyle’s death in 1930. In fact, driven by popular demand the character of Sherlock Holmes began to reappear in the works of other authors. Surprisingly, Sherlock Holmes continues to live for over a hundred years even after Doyle’s death. A great number of authors have followed Doyle’s footsteps in writing non-canonical tales based on the Holmes and Watson in their writings. This paper, explores the uniqueness and growing popularity of these later works and how different they are from the original Holmes stories. Although different from the original Sherlock Holmes tales many of these stories written by other authors are unique that makes them immensely enjoyable to the modern reader. The paper will give an understanding of how these later versions have recreated the original Holmes stories in such a manner that an avid reader of Sherlock Holmes finds them extremely gratifying.

pastiche, canon, alternative Holmes, contemporary, humanity

"Revisiting Sherlock Holmes outside the Doyle canon", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 11, page no.c367-c369, November-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2111252.pdf

"Revisiting Sherlock Holmes outside the Doyle canon", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 11, page no. ppc367-c369, November-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2111252.pdf