Mark Dindal Gets A Clue

By Lexi Feinberg: 2006-08-11 00:00:00

We’ve all heard of Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most famous detective that just happens to be a made-up literary character. But just because he wasn’t a real flesh-and-blood person, doesn’t mean he hasn’t left an impact. Director Mark Dindal (Chicken Little) is going to tell the true story of how real crime letters are still sent to his fictitious house.

According to Hollywood Reporter, Dindal will make his live-action film debut with Sherlock’s Secretary for Walden Media and Nash Entertainment. Julie Golden (The Calligrapher) is set to write the screenplay.

Detective Sherlock Holmes “lived” at 221b Baker St, an address that has since become the Sherlock Holmes Museum. To this day, there are still letters arriving from real people seeking his help to solve crimes. This is not a very proud declaration of people’s intelligence, but on the plus side, it’s good to see that some people still hand-write letters. The film will revolve around the person living at that address, who receives one of the letters and decides to try and solve the case on their own.

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Roger Johnson, BSI
August 15, 2006 at 06:34

This looks like fun! But how did the Sherlock Holmes Museum get in on the act? The museum pretends to be at 221B Baker Street; in fact its address is 239 Baker Street. 221, which existed briefly after the renumbering of the street in about 1930, was swallowed up by Abbey House, HQ of the Abbey National Building Society, later Abbey Bank. For more than 60 years it was Abbey National who employed a secretary to answer letters addressed to Sherlock Holmes at 221B Baker Street, which the Royal Mail correctly delivered to Abbey House. It was Abbey National too that housed the seminal Sherlock Holmes Exhibition of 1951, out of which came the Sherlock Holmes Society of London and the famous Sherlock Holmes pub. And it was Abbey National that sponsored the Sherlock Holmes statue, which stands outside Baker Street station. The museum has a long way to go before it can match such continued close connection with and support for the Great Detective!

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