![]() ![]() The club also appears in Nicholas Meyer's 1974 novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier graphic novel, the computer game Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Rose Tattoo, the Dark Horse Comics comic Predator: Nemesis, and in the short story "Closing Time" from Neil Gaiman's collection of short fiction Fragile Things.Also in 2011, the club was mentioned in Guy Ritchie's movie Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, when Watson made a deduction about Mycroft prior to the stag party.A 2008 follow-up to this, in Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield series of audio adventures, is The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel. The Diogenes Club was featured in the Doctor Who 1994 Virgin New Adventures novel All-Consuming Fire, a Doctor Who/Sherlock Holmes crossover novel, which also refers to Kim Newman's character Charles Beauregard.The Diogenes Club has appeared, in various forms, in many other settings, most of which take as given the Club's connection to the British Secret Service: The idea was popularised by The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, a 1970 motion picture directed by Billy Wilder, and has since been frequently used in pastiches of Conan Doyle's stories as well as the TV series Sherlock. This may have its root in " The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" (1908), in which Mycroft Holmes is revealed to be the supreme and indispensable brain-trust behind the British government, who pieces together collective government secrets and offers advice on the best way to act. Relation to British Secret Service Īlthough there is no hint in the original Sherlock Holmes canon that the Diogenes Club is anything but what it seems to be, several later writers developed and used the idea that the club was founded as a front for the British Secret Service. My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offences, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubbable men in town. ![]() Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. ![]() The club as described by Sherlock Holmes in " The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter": It seems to have been named after Diogenes the Cynic (though this is never explained in the original stories) and was co-founded by Sherlock's indolent elder brother Mycroft Holmes. The Diogenes Club is a fictional gentlemen's club created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and featured in several Sherlock Holmes stories, such as 1893's " The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter". ![]() Mycroft Holmes (right), co-founder of the Diogenes Club (depicted here in 221B Baker Street), illustrated by Sidney Paget The End of the Pier Show ( 1997) by Kim Newman.Where the Bodies Are Buried 2020 ( 1996) by Kim Newman.Where the Bodies Are Buried 3: Black and White and Red All Over ( 1995) by Kim Newman.Never display translations Registered users can choose which translations are shown. ![]()
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