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6 gen 2016 · Modern fandom wouldn't exist without Conan Doyle’s famous creation, writes Jennifer Keishin Armstrong. In 1893, author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle shoved detective Sherlock Holmes off a cliff....
- Knowledge and Skills
- Personality and Habits
- Possessions
- Firearms
- Relationships
- Holmesian (or Sherlockian) Deduction
- The Hiatus
- Trivia
- See Also
"My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know."―"The Adventure of the Blue CarbuncleWatson describes Holmes as "bohemian" in habits and lifestyle. Although Holmes is described in The Hound of the Baskervillesas having a "cat-like" love of personal cleanliness, Watson also describes Holmes as an eccentric, with no regard for contemporary standards of tidiness or good order. He alternates between days or weeks of listless lassitude ...
The most characteristic feature of Holmes' attire is introduced in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" where he is described as wearing a "cloth cap" which in Sidney Paget's illustration appears as a deerstalker. It was introduced into more illustrations by the American illustrator F.D. Steele, who was also responsible (following the model of the America...
Although on occasion Holmes and Watson carry pistols with them (see also Dr Watson's revolver), there are only three times when these weapons are fired: 1. They both fire at the Andaman Islander in The Sign of Four. 2. They both fire at the hound in The Hound of the Baskervilles. 3. Watson fires at the mastiff in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeche...
An estimate of Holmes' age in the short story "His Last Bow", in which he is described as a "man of sixty" in the year 1914, places his year of birth around 1854, Historically, Holmes lived from the year 1881 at 221B Baker Street, London (in early notes it was described as being situated at Upper Baker Street), a flat up seventeen steps, where he shared many of his professional years with his good friend Dr Watson for some time before Watson's marriage in 1887 or 1888 and after Mrs Watson's d...
Holmes also has an older brother, Mycroft Holmes, a government official, who appears in three stories: "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", "The Final Problem", and "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans". He is also mentioned in a number of others, including "The Adventure of the Empty House".
The Baker Street Irregulars
In three stories, including The Sign of Four, Holmes is assisted by a group of street children he calls the Baker Street Irregulars.
"From a drop of water", Holmes wrote in an essay described in A Study in Scarlet, "a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other." Holmes stories often begin with a bravura display of his talent for "deduction". It is of some interest to logicians and those interested in logic to...
Holmes fans refer to the period from 1891 to 1894 the time between Holmes' disappearance and presumed death in "The Adventure of the Final Problem" and his reappearance in "The Adventure of the Empty House" as "the Great Hiatus". It is notable, though, that one later story ("The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge") is described as taking place in 1892. Co...
Sherlock Holmes is the most portrayed fictional character on film, having been played by no fewer than 75 actors in 211 movies since 1900.[citation needed]Holmes is dolichocephalic as told in "The Hound of the Baskervilles".Fans of the literary detective Sherlock Holmes are widely considered to have comprised the first modern fandom, holding public demonstrations of mourning after Holmes was "killed off" in 1893, and creating some of the first fan fiction as early as about 1897 to 1902.
Studio: Silver Pictures. Village Roadshow Pictures. Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures. Release Date (s): 25 December, 2009 (US) 26 December, 2009 (UK) Running time: 128 minutes. Budget: $90 million. Gross Revenue: $524,028,679 [1] Followed by: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
Sherlock is a British Television series produced by Hartswood Films for the BBC, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as John Watson. It airs on the BBC in the UK, and on PBS in the USA. It was created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.
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Avid readers of the Holmes stories helped create the modern practice of fandom. The character and stories have had a profound and lasting effect on mystery writing and popular culture as a whole, with the original tales as well as thousands written by authors other than Conan Doyle being adapted into stage and radio plays, television ...
