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John Michael Drinkrow Hardwick (10 September 1924 − 4 March 1991

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes. He adapted most of the episodes of the Sherlock Holmes BBC radio series 1952–1969.[2]

Personal life

Hardwick was born on 10 September 1924 in Leeds, Yorkshire[3] and married fellow author Mollie Hardwick in 1961.[1] Together they co-wrote numerous different books, not just on the subject of Sherlock Holmes, but also Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, George Bernard Shaw and other giants of the literary landscape. Between them they also produced novelisations from successful television series such as Upstairs, Downstairs, The Cedar Tree, Bergerac, The Chinese Detective and Tenko.[4]

Sherlock Holmes

Hardwick penned a dramatisation of "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet" for the BBC Light Programme in 1959,[5] which starred Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes and Norman Shelley as Doctor Watson. With his wife he wrote a 1963 radio play The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes.[6] The two also authored a novelization of Billy Wilder's film, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.[7] In 1968, they dramatized The Adventure of the Dancing Men and The Sign of the Four for the BBC's television adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, starring Peter Cushing as Holmes and Nigel Stock as Watson, but only the latter exists in the BBC's archives.

In 1979, Hardwick wrote

Villard Books,[9][10] as well as The Private Life of Dr. Watson[11] and Sherlock Holmes: My Life and Crimes.[10][11]

List of works

Fiction

Non-fiction

  • Emigrant in Motley: The Journey of Charles and Ellen Kean in Quest of a Theatrical Fortune in Australia and America, as told in their hitherto unpublished letters (1954); editor, with a foreword by Anthony Quayle
  • The Verdict of the Court (1960); editor, with an introduction by Lord Birkett – six famous trials
  • The Jolly Toper: A Light-Hearted Social History of Drinking (1961); with Mollie Greenhalgh/Hardwick
  • Doctors on Trial (1961) – the trials of Smethurst, Pritchard, Lamson, Crippen and Ruxton
  • The Sherlock Holmes Companion (1962); with Mollie Hardwick
  • The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1964); with Mollie Hardwick
  • The Charles Dickens Companion (1965); with Mollie Hardwick
  • The Plague and the Fire of London (1966); with Mollie Hardwick
  • The World's Greatest Sea Mysteries (1967); with Mollie Hardwick
  • Alfred Deller: A Singularity of Voice (1968); with Mollie Hardwick
  • Writers' Houses: A Literary Journey in England (1968); with Mollie Hardwick – US edition: A Literary Journey: Visits to the Homes of Great Writers
  • Discovery of Japan (1969) – Hamlyn All Colour book
  • The World's Greatest Air Mysteries (1970)
  • As They Saw Him: Charles Dickens (1970) – "the great novelist as seen through the eyes of his family, friends, and contemporaries"
  • Dickens' England: The Places in his Life and Works (1970); with Mollie Hardwick
  • The Osprey Guide to Gilbert and Sullivan (1972)
  • The Osprey Guide to Oscar Wilde (1973)
  • The Osprey Guide to Jane Austen (1973)
  • The Bernard Shaw Companion (1973); with Mollie Hardwick
  • The Charles Dickens Encyclopedia (1973); with Mollie Hardwick
  • A Literary Atlas and Gazetteer of the British Isles (1973)
  • The Osprey Guide to Anthony Trollope (1974)
  • The Charles Dickens Quiz Book (1974); with Mollie Hardwick
  • Cars of the Thirties and Forties (1979)
  • The Complete Guide to Sherlock Holmes (1986)

References

  1. ^ a b Newley, Patrick (19 January 2004). "Mollie Hardwick". The Stage. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  2. ISBN 9781459718982
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  3. ^ "Michael Hardwick, co-author w/ his wife Mollie, of many Sherlockian plays & books, born #OTD 1924". The Baker Street Journal on Twitter. 10 September 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  4. ^ "Michael Hardwick, GoodReads". Good Reads. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  5. ^ "Sherlock Holmes". BBC iPlayer Radio. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  6. ^ "The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (radio 1963)". The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  7. ISBN 9780520215382
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  8. ^ "The plot thickens". The Herald. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  9. ^ "Revenge of the Hound". Publishers Weekly. 30 September 1987. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  10. ^ a b Reynolds, Stanley (19 August 1988). "Elementary imitation, my dear Watson". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  11. ^ a b "Sherlock Holmes: My Life and Crimes". Kirkus Reviews. 9 November 1984. Retrieved 21 November 2018.

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