Sherlock Holmes is currently one of my favorite stories, although I'm not sure if that's really how to describe it. I love the original stories and have gone through most of them at least twice, but I really love how it's something that's really never died and has evolved through the years. There are so many different incarnations of Holmes and Watson and most of them just add to it.
The movies with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law are great- a lot of action and quirky humor. I like their take on the relationship between them, even if Holmes seems a bit clingy, heh. I'm not sure which one I like better, although I might lean towards the second one. It seemed a lot longer, and I was surprised when they threw Reichenbach in at the end there.
I'm currently slowly making my way through the Granada series. Jeremy Brett is awesome. biggrin I'm really glad that I decided to look it up. And of course there's the BBC's Sherlock, which I'm more or less in love with. Great pacing, beautiful cinematography, amazing actors, and pretty deep cases that still throw a lot of callbacks to the original stories while keeping it modern.
There are apparently quite a few extra books out there done by different authors over the years too. The only one I've read so far is Professor Moriarty: Hound of D'urbervilles. Just as the Holmes stories are narrated by Watson, Hound of D'urbervilles is about some of Moriarty's crimes as narrated by Moran. It's very good and- woah, the ending literally had me just set the book down and gape for a bit. Has anyone else read it?