Think of bartitsu, the martial art used by Sherlock Holmes, and the first word that may pop into your mind is “discombobulate.” It’s not too far from the truth, actually—and the recent Robert Downey ...

It’s sundown at a small park in Burbank and I’m dressed in head-to-toe black, carrying a big stick and ready to street fight, Sherlock Holmes style. I’m not exactly a ninja—the closest I’ve been to ...

At the Steampunk World's Fair in Piscataway, NJ, Mark Donnelly demonstrated the obscure art of Bartitsu, a Victorian system of self-defense practiced by Sherlock Holmes. PISCATAWAY, N.J.—When the guy ...

At the Steampunk World's Fair in Piscataway, NJ, Mark Donnelly demonstrated the obscure art of Bartitsu, a Victorian system of self-defense practiced by Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes, of course, is a fictional creation—but, for a long time, the sleuth’s fans thought that his preferred method of hand-to-hand combat was fictional too. In the original Arthur Conan ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.