Eve Titus was an American children's writer known for her series featuring anthropomorphic mice characters. She created the heroic French mouse Anatole and the Victorian-era mouse detective Basil of Baker Street.
Titus's Anatole series follows the adventures of a brave and resourceful French mouse. These stories were so popular that they inspired a Canadian-produced animated television series called Anatole.
The Basil of Baker Street series, illustrated by Paul Galdone, features Basil, a mouse private detective who emulates Sherlock Holmes. Basil, along with his biographer Doctor David Q. Dawson, solves crimes in the mouse world from their home in Holmestead, located in the cellar of 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes resides.
Between 1958 and 1982, McGraw-Hill published the five original Basil of Baker Street titles. A Disney animated feature film based on the series was released in 1986. A decade later, Aladdin Paperbacks revived the series with two new adventures to be published in 2019 and 2020, written by Cathy Hapka and illustrated by David Mottram.
