EMMY-winning Hollywood screenwriter Bonnie MacBird investigates how Sherlock Holmes is portrayed now at a special event at Sir Conan Doyle’s former Hindhead home this month.

Newly-restored Undershaw, now home to Stepping Stones School, is opening its doors for the second year running as part of the Heritage Open Days event, on Sunday, September 10, It will be open for tours from 10am-4pm for tours with the opportunity to meet architect Mark Goodchild.

Bonnie MacBird is giving a talk, ‘Writing Sherlock Now – Modern Holmes on screen and in print’, covering BBC and film adaptations and contemporary novels at 2pm.

Bonnie will also be signing copies of her new Sherlock Book, ‘Unquiet Spirits’, from 3.30pm.

HarperCollins’ official Sherlock Holmes writer has written two novels, Art in the Blood, and now Unquiet Spirits, as part of a Sherlock Holmes trilogy.

Bonnie (above) has worked in Hollywood as a feature film development executive at Universal, and a screenwriter and producer, for most of her career, winning three Emmy awards and 11 Golden Eagles. The Univeristy of California screenwriting teacher said: “I first visited Undershaw in 2011 with fellow Sherlock Holmes writer Luke Benjamen Kuhns and Steve Emecz, a specialist Sherlock Holmes publisher.

“It was already the subject of impassioned interest by many Sherlockians. So many of us were saddened to see the once magnificent and unusual home, so uniquely and personally attached to the memory of Arthur Conan Doyle, in such a sad state of disrepair.

“It’s with great pleasure I’ll be visiting the newly refurbished building and I am glad Stepping Stones seems to respect the history and connection with this great man.

“I look forward to being a part of the events to keep the memory of Arthur Conan Doyle alive. This building certainly carries forward the generous spirit of the great writer, a man for whom education and literacy were vitally important.

“To give a writing workshop and public talk in the very building in which my hero wrote will be the greatest honour, and I am thankful for the invitation to do so.”