Amateur Holmesian Scholarship

The Guardian have weighed in with a very nice article with their thoughts on the whole Andrea Plunket thing – one of the cool things about it is that it links to a series of essays written by nekosmuse taking a look at the subtext within the original canon.

I was around when nekosmuse was starting out with her essays and it’s great to see them still being discussed! Not only that but if you follow the comments you will see that nekosmuse and  Rohase Piercy(writer of ‘My Dearest Holmes‘) both comment on the article.

Thankfully it turns out Andrea Plunket has no claims whatsoever to Sherlock Holmes.

She was married to a guy called Sheldon Reynolds who produced the 1950s Holmes series staring Ronald Howard, he controlled the copyright in the 50s but no longer has a claim to the rights. The American copyright is owned by the estate of Dame Jean Conan Doyle and administered in the US by Jon Lellenberg. Her claims to the rights have been thrown out of court and her petition to trademark ‘Sherlock Holmes’ has been turned down.

So there we go, she can shout and scream all she wants but can’t control the rights.