Michael Hardwick
Michael Hardwick was an English author who was best known for writing books and radio plays which featured Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes. He adapted most of the episodes of the Sherlock Holmes 1952–1969 BBC radio series.Personal life
Hardwick married fellow author Mollie Hardwick in 1961.Sherlock Holmes
Hardwick penned a dramatisation of "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet" for the BBC Light Programme in 1959, which starred Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes and Norman Shelley as Doctor Watson. With his wife, Mollie Hardwick, he wrote a 1963 radio play The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes. The two also authored a novelization of Billy Wilder's film, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.
In 1979, Hardwick wrote The Prisoner of the Devil which features Holmes called in to solve the case of the Dreyfus affair. The 1980's brought Hardwick's sequel to The Hound of the Baskervilles entitled The Revenge of the Hound and published by Villard Books as well as The Private Life of Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes: My Life and Crimes.
