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Sherlock Holmes


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The private detective who appears in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and other books by A. C. Doyle.

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Holmes, Sherlock
in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2) Length: 77 words
Holmes, Sherlock
in The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing Length: 1469 words
Holmes, Sherlock
in The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7) Length: 10 words
Holmes, Sherlock
in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3) Length: 20 words

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