No matter how hard Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tried to rid the world of his most famous detective (in his short story "The Final Problem"), there's something about the erudite Holmes that continues to capture writers' imaginations. Some reincarnations are more faithful than others-few readers ever pictured Holmes as the street-smart, bemuscled (and mostly sober!) detective played by Robert Downey Jr. in Guy Ritchie's 2009 film, Sherlock Holmes. A highly adaptive figure, Holmes is great fun as seen in these new iterations.
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