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Originally Posted by bandsdavis
I've been a Sherlock Holmes fan for many decades and over the last few years have found a number of book series set as British mysteries in the 19th and early 20th centuries, especially the Charles Lenox, Ian Hamilton, Ian Lavendar, and Sebastion St. Cyr series...
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I too love Sherlock Holmes, did you happen to watch the British TV show Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman? I think I've seen everyone at least twice. They were like mini-movies, each was 90 minutes and no commercials and took 28 days to shoot. Really good show, makes the American show "Elementary" seem like kid's stuff. If you haven't you should, I originally saw them on the public channel WUCF channel 24 and they they were rerun on BBC America and sometimes they have on demand. Unfortunately they only made about four a year since they took so much time to make.
I became a fan of Martin Freedman who played Dr. Watson, he was the original "Jim" character on the British version of The Office. I watched as many of those as I could on Netflix and he was a featured character on the first season of Fargo on FX Channel, excellent 10 episode series with Billy Bob Thornton as the antagonist. That's available on demand I believe. Of course Benedict Cumberbatch has become a big star, I think that part of the reason that the American show Elementary fell out of favor, it just didn't hold up against the British version.
