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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
..., Sherlock Famous fictional detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle...
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
..., Sherlock Famous fictional detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle ....
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The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2 ed.)
...Sherlock Holmes Fictional detective , the creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . The first Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet , made its bow in print in Beeton’s Christmas Annual ( see Beeton, Samuel Orchart ) and its author received £25 for it. Conan Doyle then began to write Holmes stories for The Strand Magazine and these swiftly brought fame to him and to Holmes. There are many spin-offs written specifically for child...
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A Dictionary of Reference and Allusion (3 ed.)
..., Sherlock [Lit.] An extremely perceptive private detective in a series of stories by Arthur Conan *Doyle . Holmes's exceptional powers of observation and deductive reasoning enable him to solve the seemingly impenetrable mysteries that are brought to him by troubled clients. Probably the most famous fictional detective of all, Holmes plays the violin, smokes a pipe, has an opium habit, and wears a deerstalker. He is a master of disguise. Holmes is assisted by his stalwart associate Dr Watson, with whom he shares rooms at 221B Baker Street, London. His...
Holmes, Sherlock
The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing
...Street with Sherrinford Holmes.” Doyle changed the characters' names to Watson and Holmes before he penned the work, which was first published in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 . Undoubtedly best known for his powers of reasoning, Holmes possessed a flair for drawing conclusions from keenly observed details that is modeled in part on the talents of Doyle's own medical mentor, Dr. Joseph Bell, whom Doyle met at Edinburgh University and to whom he dedicated the first collection of his short stories, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ( 1892 ). A lecturer...
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The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3 ed.)
... Holmes ( 1899 ) , a play by William Gillette . [ Garrick Theatre , 256 perf.] Alice Faulkner ( Katherine Florence ) holds letters written to her late sister by a member of royalty. She believes that her sister died of a broken heart from the man's faithlessness and is determined to use the letters against him. But Madge ( Judith Berolde ) and James Larrabee ( Ralph Delmore ), two blackmailers, also want the letters and are holding Alice prisoner. Sherlock Holmes (Gillette) is called into the case and by arranging a fake fire manages to discover the...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
..., Sherlock The most famous figure in detective fiction, the creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( 1859–1930 ). His solutions of crime and mysteries were related in a series of 60 stories that mainly appeared in the Strand Magazine between 1891 and 1927 . The character was based on Dr Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, whose methods of deduction suggested a system that Holmes developed into a science: the observation of the minutest details and apparently insignificant circumstances scientifically interpreted. Dr Watson , Holmes’ friend and...
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The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction
...of Sherlock Holmes, The , A. Conan Doyle , 1905 , George Newnes. In 1893 , Sherlock Holmes appeared to have solved his last crime by tumbling off the Reichenbach Falls in the arms of Professor Moriarty. Eventually, after eight years, public demand persuaded Doyle to resuscitate him. The thirteen stories in The Return appeared in the Strand Magazine between October 1903 and December 1904 and in Collier's Weekly between September 1903 and January 1905 . Holmes reappears during ‘The Empty House’, setting up a wax dummy of himself in a window...
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The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction
...Adventure of Sherlock Holmes , A. Conan Doyle , 1902 , George Newnes. Sherlock Holmes is called in, three months after the event, to investigate the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville, found in the yew walk of his Dartmoor house with his face contorted into a rictus of terror, and to protect Sir Charles's heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, who has just returned from Canada to assume his inheritance. Legend connects family misfortunes with a sinister hound from hell often heard baying on the moor. Claiming pressure of business, Holmes sends Watson down...
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Green's Dictionary of Slang
... Holmes n. [proper name Sherlock Holmes , the private consulting detective invented by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( 1859–1930 )] ( US black ) the police. [ 1957 G. Kersh Fowlers End ( 2001 ) 304: ‘Isn't that blood I see on the floor?’ asked Inspector Dench . Sam Yudenow started to say ‘Sherlock Holmes—’.] 1980 E. Folb Runnin' Down Some Lines 67: Characteristic of the police-related lexicon is an ironic, if sometimes grim, humor that is embodied in names like […] Uncle Nab, nail 'em and jail 'em, Sherlock Holmes...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
..., Sherlock an extremely perceptive private detective in stories by Arthur Conan Doyle ( 1859–1930 ). Presented through the eyes of his friend and colleague Dr Watson , Holmes is shown as embodying the powers of rational deduction, unaffected by his occasional indulgence in cocaine. His duel with his arch-enemy Professor Moriarty appeared to lead to his death in the Reichenbach Falls , but Doyle was forced by popular demand to allow the detective to emerge unscathed. ( See also sherlock...
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Brewer's Dictionary of London Phrase & Fable
..., Sherlock The most famous figure in detective fiction, the creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( 1859–1930 ). His solutions of crime and mysteries were related in a series of 60 stories that mainly appeared in the Strand Magazine between 1891 and 1927 . The character was based on Dr Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, whose methods of deduction suggested a system that Holmes developed into a science: the observation of the minutest details and apparently insignificant circumstances scientifically interpreted. Dr Watson , Holmes's friend and...
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4 ed.)
...and Sherlock Holmes was withdrawn after a run of 97 performances. Not far away, at Wyndham’s Theatre, the new stage thriller, The Secret Of Sherlock Holmes , with Jeremy Brett (Holmes), and Edward Hardwicke (Watson), did much better, staying around for about a year. For some reason, perhaps because Bricusse was in the news with a 30th anniversary revival of Pickwick , and the premiere of his stage adaptation of the film Scrooge , in March 1993 Bristol Old Vic mounted a revival of his Sherlock Holmes musical, starring Robert Powell (Holmes), Roy...
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