Detection in Shanghai – The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (1931)

I wrote a short piece the other day regarding the popularity of the BBC’s Sherlock in China for the Los Angeles Review of Books China blog. In the piece I mention the 1931 Shanghai movie The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes – a film, directed by Li Pingqian directed (who starred in it too) that wasn’t pure Conan Doyle by any means (it swapped London for Shanghai as a setting) but featured a lot of pensive thinking and logical deduction. In the 1920s and ‘30s Holmes was reinvented, copied, and adapted in various ways. The movie was a silent, so not sure there was much of that clever Holmes deducting going on. Anyway, for any Sherlockians out there – here’s the film poster from 1931….