The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)

No, not Mycroft. It's Sigerson! This is the novelization of the 1975 film written, directed, and starring Gene Wilder.

Can the sexual insecurities of one young beauty determine the fate of England?
Of course. But how?

Elementary!

Huh? As you can see, this is no case for any ordinary detective.
This is a case for...

Sigerson Holmes? 

It's Sherlock's smarter brother (believe us, he's not ordinary) up to the family snuff in a riotous case of stolen documents and stolen love where one clue doesn't necessarily lead to another–but you're too busy laughing to care!

Title: The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Author: Gilbert Pealman
Year: 1975
Publisher: Ballantine
Purchase: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk

Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)

Alan Arnold's novelization of the 1985 movie produced by Steven Spielberg and starring Nicholas Rowe as Holmes and Alan Cox as his friend and schoolmate John Watson.

On his first murder case, a brilliant schoolboy is swept into a perilous adventure! 

YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES

When his friend the eccentric professor mysteriously dies, sixteen year-old Holmes suspects of play. The eager detective drags his new friend Watson through London't dark alleys and over the rooftops, braving disaster––and even death––to capture a tricky, powerful foe!

It's a shame Pocket Books didn't use the actual movie poster art (below) for the cover of their novelization. Always loved it.

For a very good review of this novelization, check out Cult Film Club.

Title: Young Sherlock Holmes

Author: Alan Arnold

Year: 1985

Publisher: Pocket Books

Purchase: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk

Murder By Decree (1979)

Novelization of the 1979 film starring Christopher Plummer as Sherlock Holmes and James Mason as Dr. Watson. A good Holmes vs. Jack The Ripper tale incorporating a popular Royal conspiracy theory of the day. Recently released as a Special Edition Blu-ray.

THE MOST INFAMOUS MURDERER IN THE ENTIRE CENTURY––

He terrorized a city.

He committed acts of unspeakable horror.

He ruled the shadows and the back alley.

He was called Jack the Ripper––

THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS INVESTIGATOR OF ALL TIME––

He commanded boundless admiration.

He possessed ruthless intelligence.

He pursued his suspects with unfailing instincts.

He was Sherlock Holmes.

Title: Murder By Decree

Author: Robert Weverka

Year: 1979

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Purchase: Amazon | Amazon.co.uk

A Study In Terror (1966)

One of the more novel novelizations is this adaptation the 1966 film A Study in Terror written by none other than Ellery Queen. The film starred John Neville as Holmes and Donald Houston as Dr. Watson and was released on this day in 1965.

SOLVED!  

The savage killer roamed the dark streets and alleys of London. No woman was safe from his swift, gory attacks as murder followed murder. No man could stop the menace or even guess the identity of the brute called . . . 

JACK THE RIPPER 

No man . . .  except Sherlock Holmes. 

Now it can be told––in this gripping modern thriller. Sherlock Holmes did stalk Jack the Ripper in 1888, and through a quirk of fate that is a mystery in itself, Ellery Queen follows in his footsteps in 1966. The two greatest detectives of all time match wits with each other––and together arrive at a solution that will stun you. 

WHO WAS JACK THE RIPPER? read the answer in this brand new, full authentic Sherlock Holmes adventure, by today's greatest living mystery writer, 

ELLERY QUEEN

Title: A Study in Terror
Author: Ellery Queen
Year: 1966
Publisher: Lancer
Purchase: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1971)

Novelization for my all time favorite Sherlock Holmes film, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), starring Robert Stephens as Holmes and Colin Blakely as Watson.

"...matters of a delicate and sometimes scandalous nature..."

At last revealed––some adventures of Sherlock Holmes that even Dr. Watson did not dare to publish during his lifetime! Fifty years after his death, a bank vault in London is opened to reveal new material about the most fascinating fictional detective of all time. In their hilarious and brilliant new film, Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond have recreated the world of Sherlock Holmes in an adventure never before imagined. What you don't know about Sherlock Holmes has made a great motion picture...and a delightful new novel.

Title: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Michael & Mollie Hardwick
Year: 1971 (first published 1970)
Publisher: Bantam Books
Purchase: Amazon.

Sherlock Gnomes (2018)

Novelization of the upcoming Paramount movie featuring the voice of Johnny Depp as Sherlock Gnomes. Had to dig deep into the tin dispatch box for this one!

When Gnomeo and Juliet notice that a bunch of garden ornaments have gone missing, they know there’s only one gnome to turn to: the brilliant detective Sherlock Gnomes! Despite his gruff personality, they know there is no one better to solve a mystery. Young fans of the film can relive the fun with this hilarious novelization! 

Paramount Animation’s Sherlock Gnomes—starring Johnny Depp, Emily Blunt, and James McAvoy—bursts into theaters on March 23, 2018!  

Title: Sherlock Gnomes
Author: Mary Tillworth
Year: 2018
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Purchase: Amazon (U.S.) | Amazon (UK).

Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976)

Sad news today that Sir Roger Moore has passed away at 89. Roger played Sherlock Holmes in the 1976 made for television movie Sherlock Holmes in New York co-starring Patrick MacNee as Watson, John Huston as Moriarty and Charlotte Rampling as Irene Adler. This is the novelization by D.R. Benson.

"WATSON – THERE'S NOT A MOMENT TO BE LOST! WE MUST SET OUT FOR NEW YORK THIS VERY DAY!" 

With this hasty entreaty the world's most dauntless detective is off on adventure once again. Here in the sin capital of the New World–where his beloved Irene Adler faces a nameless peril, where his evil nemesis Professor Moriarty plans "The Crime of the Century," where danger waits in countless shadows, HOLMES MEETS HIS GREATEST CHALLENGE!"

Title: Sherlock Holmes in New York

Author: D. R. Bensen

Year: 1976

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Purchase: Amazon.com.

The Adventure at Ferryman's Creek (1984)

Novelization for the never produced second Granada mini series about the young Sherlock Holmes. Click for the first adventure: The Mystery of the Manor House.

On the morning of his eighteenth birthday Sherlock Holmes receives a brief and mysterious letter from his brother Mycroft, suggesting a short holiday on the Lincolnshire coast and hinting at the possibility of adventure there . . . The young detective is soon embroiled in a tangle of sinister occurrences which it takes all his wit and ingenuity to unravel.

Who is the mysterious Martin Ashley and why does he always wear a glove on his left hand? Are Ashley's disappearance and the chain of near-disasters which follow it connected? Can it be that the ancient legend of the Thoresby-le-Marsh is coming fatally true once more?

This is the second exciting Young Sherlock novel by Gerald Frow. 

Title: Young Sherlock: The Adventure at Ferryman's Creek
Author: Gerald Frow
Year: 1984
Publisher: Dragon
Purchase: Amazon.

Murder By Decree (1979)

British novelization of the 1979 film starring Christopher Plummer as Holmes and James Mason as Watson. A U.S. edition was published by Ballantine Books.

THE JACK THE RIPPER MURDERS 

Sherlock Holmes lifts the veil of secrecy, corruption and terror at the heart of the throne of England itself. Clue by clue...murder by murder.

Title: Murder By Decree

Author: Robert Weverka

Year: 1979

Publisher: Corgi

Purchase: Amazon.co.uk

The Mystery of the Manor House (1982)

Novelization of the 1982 Granada mini series about the young Sherlock Holmes, which pre-dated the Spielberg film. A novelization for the never made second series, The Adventure at Ferryman's Creek, was also published.

You all know Mr Holmes–the greatest detective of them all. But where was this master criminologist before the great Baker Street days? Against what opponents did the boy detective first test his powers of detection? Granada now reveals the secret to you. 

Watch this thrilling television series and relive each exciting moment in this fast moving, action-packed book. Professor Moriarty–of course–is behind the skulduggery . . .

Title: Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House
Author: Gerald Frow
Year: 1982
Publisher: Carnival
Purchase: Amazon.

A Study in Terror (1967)

Continuing our look at the novelization of the 1966 Sherlock Holmes film A Study in Terror, here is a 1967 Lancer paperback that curiously makes no mention of the movie nor even Sherlock Holmes on the cover! This one is packaged solely as an Ellery Queen adventure. Very different from Lancer's 1966 edition.

Ellery Queen and Sherlock Holmes-Undisputed masters of analytical deduction - their talents and methods strikingly, almost uncannily, alike. Through the strange interlocking of events past and present, two celebrated detectives meet to focus their razor-sharp intellects, their brilliant powers of observation on the mystery of... Jack the Ripper. History's most depraved murderer, his victims were the whores of Whitechapel. Lurking in narrow, fog-shrouded alleys, he crept forth night after night to murder and mutilate. Eluding Scotland Yard's most heroic efforts to track him down, the Ripper continued to satisfy his unnatural appetites, unrestrained and unidentified.

Title: A Study on Terror
Author: Ellery Queen
Year: 1967
Publisher: Lancer
Purchase: Amazon.

Sherlock Holmes vs. Frankenstein (2015)

Another Holmes Frankenstein monster mash-up adventure, this one promising to "soon be a major motion picture." This is a novelization of an unproduced screenplay by Gautier Gazenave.

Only the most intriguing mystery could lure Sherlock Holmes from the comfort of Baler Street in the winter of 1898 ... and it came with the ghastly murder of a gravedigger in the most bizarre of circumstances. Thus it was that Holmes and Watson travelled to the tiny German village of Darmstadt to unmask a callous killer with an even more terrifying motive ... and all within the long, ominous shadow of Castle Frankenstein.

Title: Sherlock Holmes vs. Frankenstein
Author: David Whitehead
Year: 2015
Publisher: Creative Texts Publishers
Purchase: Amazon

Elementary: Blood and Ink (2016)

The second tie-in novel based on the TV show Elementary.

The Chief Financial Officer of a secretive NYC hedge fund has been found murdered—stabbed through the eye with an expensive fountain pen. When Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson discover a link between the victim and a charismatic management guru with a doubtful past, it seems they may have their man. But is the guru being framed? 

As secrets are revealed and another victim is found murdered in the same grisly fashion, Holmes and Watson begin to uncover a murky world of money and deceit…

Title: Elementary: Blood and Ink
Author: Adam Christopher
Year: 2016
Publisher: Titan Books
Purchase: Amazon.

Elementary: The Ghost Line (2015)

I admit I'm not a fan of Elementary, the American version of the excellent BBC series, Sherlock, but I'm intrigued to see the series has spawned original mass market tie-in novels. This first book, The Ghost Line, was released in 2015. A second, Blood and Ink, will be released in April 2016.

Summons to a bullet-riddled body in a Hell’s Kitchen apartment marks the start of a new case for consulting detectives Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson. The victim is a subway train driver with a hidden stash of money and a strange Colombian connection, but why would someone kill him and leave a fortune behind? 

The search for the truth will lead the sleuths deep into the hidden underground tunnels beneath New York City, where answers—and more bodies—may well await them...

Title: Elementary: The Ghost Line
Author: Adam Christopher
Year: 2015
Publisher: Titan Books
Purchase: Amazon.

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)

The UK novelization of the great 1970 Billy Wilder film, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Stephens and Colin Blakely. (Click for U.S. edition.)

SHERLOCK HOLMES –
THE UNPUBLISHED FACTS.
Dramatic new revelations.
Dr. Watson's secret memoirs unearthed.

"In my lifetime I have recored more than sixty cases which demonstrated the singular gifts of my friend Sherlock Holmes, the best and wisest man that ever lived. But there were other adventures shared by us which, for reasons of discretion, I have decided to withhold from the public until a later date. They involve matters of a delicate and sometimes scandalous nature..."

Title: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Michael & Mollie Hardwick
Year: 1970
Publisher: Mayflower
Purchase: Amazon.co.uk.