Issue 25 - Summer 2026

What's inside Issue 25 of Sherlock Holmes Magazine:

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• News

• The story of The Great Mouse Detective
  T Rick Jones meets the writer-director behind the film that saved Disney’s famed animation studio

• Looney Holmes
  T Rick Jones takes a look back at Daffy’s time as a duck detective

• The top 25 best Moriarty portrayals 
  The greatest versions of the Napoleon of Crime

• Society’s 75th anniversary
  Roger Johnson and Jean Upton tell the story of The Sherlock Holmes Society of London

• Back to Baker Street
  The latest news of BrettCon in Manchester

• The man who saved Watson
  A tribute to the actor David Burke

• The dispatch box
  Letters to the editor

• Controlling the media
  Daniel L Friedman and Eugene B Friedman investigate Sherlock Holmes’s use of fake news

• The spectre of The Sign of Four
  Malcolm Noble follows a trail of clues to uncover the secrets of the second Holmes novel

• Watson in the comics
  Comics expert Johanna Draper Carlson details the canonical comic-book portrayals of Doctor Watson 

• Mrs Hudson’s Diary

• The Minister’s Visit
  A complete short story by David Marcum

• Books

• Crossword & cartoon