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I am kicking around an idea for sort of a prequel to Sherlock Holmes. He is just out of college and Dr. Watson takes him under his wing as an amateur sleuth. Dr. Watson is the expert.
Then a bizarre series of murders take place in London and Sherlock just manages to run down the murderer only to find reality phasing out then back in. He is in modern USA, the murderer is a time traveler. He learns modern medicine, crime fighting techniques, forensics, etc. Then he tracks down the murderer only to have himself again transported to old England where he defeats the serial murderer.
Now Dr. Watson is the bumbling amateur while Sherlock, armed with secret knowledge he cannot tell, becomes the amazing Sherlock Holmes.
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perhaps to have been used as somewhat of a template at least in the opinion of this Professor for Doyle's designing of the Great Detective's Methods.C8822. Kellogg, Richard L. "Holmes and the Notorious Muller," Calabash, No. 3 (March 1983), 42-47.
In the 1860's Inspector Michael Kerressey of the London Metropolitan Police did a masterful job of tracking down the railway killer, Franz Muller. A review of the Muller case suggests that Holmes was familiar with the investigation and applied some of Kerressey's methods in his own cases. Kerressey and Holmes were both pioneers in adapting the scientific method to the field of criminal investigation.
While he does get his first name wrong, it was Walter I honestly think it is kind of a strech from my reading of the Court Transcripts available on-line. This Inspector's testimony is brief and limited and I;d have to imagine not so terribly innovative beyond those of general Police methods in common use. I'd be inclined to suspect the Professor just wanted to be published and strung this theory together but it was neat to see this association made and to find an ancestor was a London Police Detective.
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A variation of your idea was made into a Malcolm McDowell (as H.G. Wells) and David Warner (as Jack the Ripper) time travel film. Pretty good movie. Mary Steenburgen was great in it, too. I still remember her in "Melvin & Me."
I admit to being a sucker for many variations on Holmes as well: Young Sherlock Holmes, The Seven Percent Solution, The Secret Life of Sherlock Holmes, Jeremy Brett as Sheclock Homes, Robert Downey as Sherlock. The only thing I don't like is the deerstalker some productions force the lead to wear..
I'm also a soft touch for time travel movies, if done well (must be the fish out of water thing, of which there's a plentitude in TAT), so Time Afrer Time is a film I like a lot.
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