Together Again for the First Time:
Forty Years of
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution.
By Steven T. Doyle, BSI.
The publication of Nicholas Meyer’s The Seven-Per-Cent Solution helped to launch the Sherlock Holmes boom of the 1970s, which in many ways has never ended. This tribute to Meyer covers both his bestselling book and the film based on that book. As Steven Doyle writes, “the only Sherlock Holmes stories to rival The Seven-Per-Cent Solution for popular success (and cultural impact) are the original publications of the canonical stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.”
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Contents
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and the modern Sherlockian age
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: The Book
The origins of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
The return of Sherlock Holmes
Writing The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Meyer’s strength as adaptor
From manuscript to print
“Beyond my wildest dreams”
E. P. Dutton wants a sequel: The West End Horror
From page to screen: The Seven-Per-Cent Solution on film
Casting
Sigmund Freud
Dr. John H. Watson
Professor Moriarty
Sherlock Holmes
Early publicity
Shooting The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Shooting the train chase
Shooting in Vienna
The critical reaction and culture
From then to now: The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Lasting Legacy
Acknowledgments
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