Michael Hardwick

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Michael Hardwick (1924[1]−1991[2]) was an English author who was best known for writing books and radio plays which featured Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes. He adapted most of the episodes of the Sherlock Holmes 1952–1969 BBC radio series.[3]

Personal life[]

Hardwick married fellow author Mollie Hardwick in 1961.[2]

Sherlock Holmes[]

Hardwick penned a dramatisation of "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet" for the BBC Light Programme in 1959,[4] which starred Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes and Norman Shelley as Doctor Watson. With his wife, Mollie Hardwick, he wrote a 1963 radio play The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes.[5] The two also authored a novelization of Billy Wilder's film, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.[6] In 1968, they dramatized The Adventure of the Dancing Men and The Sign of the Four for the BBC's television adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, starring Peter Cushing as Holmes and Nigel Stock as Watson but only the latter exists in the BBC's archives.

In 1979, Hardwick wrote The Prisoner of the Devil which features Holmes called in to solve the case of the Dreyfus affair.[7] The 1980s brought Hardwick's sequel to The Hound of the Baskervilles entitled The Revenge of the Hound and published by Villard Books[8][9] as well as The Private Life of Dr. Watson[10] and Sherlock Holmes: My Life and Crimes.[9][10]

References[]

  1. ^ "Michael Hardwick, co-author w/ his wife Mollie, of many Sherlockian plays & books, born #OTD 1924". The Baker Street Journal on Twitter. 10 September 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Newley, Patrick (19 January 2004). "Mollie Hardwick". The Stage. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  3. ^ Redmond, Christopher (2009). Sherlock Holmes Handbook: Second Edition. Dundurn. p. 229. ISBN 9781459718982.
  4. ^ "Sherlock Holmes". BBC iPlayer Radio. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  5. ^ "The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (radio 1963)". The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  6. ^ Hardy, Phil (1997). The BFI Companion to Crime. University of California Press. p. 168. ISBN 9780520215382.
  7. ^ "The plot thickens". The Herald. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  8. ^ "Revenge of the Hound". Publishers Weekly. 30 September 1987. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b Reynolds, Stanley (19 Aug 1988). "Elementary imitation, my dear Watson". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b "Sherlock Holmes: My Life and Crimes". Kirkus Reviews. 9 November 1984. Retrieved 21 November 2018.

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