HE'S already enjoyed international success in Sherlock Holmes... The Last Act, now actor Roger Llewellyn is stepping into the detectives shoes once more.

Llewellyn is at the Borough Theatre in Abergavenny next week for the spine-tingling play, Sherlock Holmes... The Death & Life.

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The one-man play finds Holmes' creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tiring of his "intolerably arrogant" detective and inventing a malevolent Moriarty to dispose of him.

But Doyle's strategy, combined with his passion for raising the spirits of the dead, has more surreal and dramatic consequences than he bargains for.

The show is a light-hearted illustration of the battle between the author's intentions and the rebellious personalities and ambitions of his literary creations.

Playwright David Davies has spent decades sifting through Conan Doyle's work and has built up a detailed knowledge of Holmes, the man behind the myth.

Scottish author and physician Doyle's character first appeared in 1887.

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A brilliant London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and his skilful use of astute observation and deductive reasoning.

Conan Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories that
embroidered patches feature Holmes. The first story, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891.

Conan Doyle said the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr Joseph Bell, for whom he had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

Now fans of the fictional detective can see him in a whole new light in this latest stage production. Whatever would Conan Doyle have thought? Sherlock Holmes... The Death & Life is at Borough Theatre, Abergavenny on December 18 at 7.30pm. Tickets, priced at pounds 11 (concessions pounds 9), are available from the box office on 01873 850 805

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