Enola Holmes How Netflix Character Relates To The Sherlock Holmes Books
Sherlock Holmes originally appeared in a series of stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, debuting in 1887’s A Study in Scarlet. However, those original stories and novels say very little about any family that Sherlock may have. As Holmes’ associate Dr. John Watson says in another story, The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter, “I had never heard him refer to his relations, and hardly ever to his early life.” Though in that same story Conan Doyle introduced Holmes’ brother Mycroft (played in Enola Holmes by Sam Claflin), the writer left most of Sherlock’s family life blank, meaning that other writers who have written Sherlock stories in the years since Conan Doyle’s death had seen fit to invent all sorts of siblings and relatives for the master sleuth....