Here I am, turning detective in a marvellously mounted, late Victorian mystery, and I’m proving more Watson than Holmes. And before you can say “so this is how it feels to be Benedict Cumberbatch”, you are striding in… David Ahmad as Dr Watson in a show that makes you feel as if you are the Holmesian hero in a game of human Cluedo Rah Petherbridge★★★☆☆Where is Sherlock Holmes when you need him? Around me are a cluster of other 21st-century folk who have been led into the bowels of Madame Tussauds, which has been mocked up — expertly, lovingly — to become a labyrinth of period suspicion. A policeman is telling us that a serial killer is on the loose.

Source: The Times July 21, 2016 15:56 UTC