A Sidney Paget illustration of Holmes and Watson in a train carriage. This gallery is from Timeshift — Series 13 , How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective ...

What do we think of when we ponder the Victorian era? I for one almost always think of steam trains, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper.

But for whatever reason, it recently offered a clip from “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,” the ... the lanky physique — as ...