With his long slender features visible under a deerstalker hat and a smoking pipe in hand, actor Basil Rathbone is as synonymous with Sherlock Holmes as Baker street. One of Britain’s first ...

Basil Rathbone ... on Design and Sherlock Holmes. Previously, we looked at the architecture of deduction at 221b Baker Street and the history of Holmes’s iconic deerstalker hat.

His lushly appointed "Sherlock Holmes" -- which will spawn a sequel around Christmas -- was a gorgeous visual work of art, and a pretty solid bit of fun, to boot. Basil Rathbone, left, starred as ...

gossip and more We have more newsletters With his long slender features visible under a deerstalker hat and a smoking pipe in hand, actor Basil Rathbone is as synonymous with Sherlock Holmes as ...