 He also took a new approach to Sherlock Holmes both in TV and later in novels with the 'Murder Rooms' cycle, of which Publisher's Weekly wrote "This brilliant debut mystery from British screenwriter Pirie offers a novel twist on the Sherlock Holmes pastiche".It first saw life as a two episode pilot "Murder Rooms" (2000) which was partly based on Arthur Conan Doyle's early life.Echoing many other reviews from The Mail, The Times, The Independent and The Guardian (all viewable on murderrooms.com), the UK's "Telegraph" wrote, "a premise with a real touch of genius ...the script skillfully weaved episodes from Doyle's own past into a richly textured, constantly wrong-footing plot ... with a denouement as clever as anything that had gone before."