by Terry O’Brien Given the people behind it, it should have been a raging success. It wasn’t. “Jane Annie, or The Good Conduct Prize” was an opera written by J M Barrie (of “Peter Pan” fame) and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (of Sherlock Holmes fame) with music by Ernest Ford, for the Savoy Theatre by Richard D’Oyly Carte. Several years before he wrote “Peter Pan”, J M Barrie was a prominent journalist and novelist with one successful stage production to his credit. He conceived of the op
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With A Study in Scarlet, published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, arguably the most well-known fictional detective in the world. Holmes has become an icon, continually inspiring adaptations and reimaginings of his stories. Next year promises a new interpretation from director Guy Ritchie with Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes and Jude Law as Watson. More than the spin-offs and adaptations, however, Holmes’ methods have inspired many imitators. Holmes
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