Sherlock Holmes is not merely an individualist ; ;

What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.

The most famous movie monsters are King Kong and Godzilla, the archetypical detective is Sherlock Holmes and most people's idea of a spy is James Bond.

The main difference between Ja ' far in " The Three Apples " and later fictional detectives such as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, however, is that Ja ' far has no actual desire to solve the case.

Although Sherlock Holmes is not the original fiction detective ( he was influenced by Poe's Dupin and Gaboriau's Lecoq ), his name has become a byword for the part.

) This plot point was also used in a Sherlock Holmes story based on the Basil Rathbone era, where a friend of Dr. Watson's is a baronet who is due to receive his inheritance on the New Year's Day of the year where his twenty-first birthday will be celebrated, only for the law to deprive him of the money as he was born on February 29 ; with the 84-year-old Baronet distraught at the news that 1900 is not a leap year, Holmes helps the Baronet fake his death long enough for his grandson-who is the appropriate age to receive the inheritance-to establish his claim and receive the money himself.

Other characters are Gumby's dog Nopey whose entire vocabulary is the word " nope ", and Prickle, a yellow dinosaur who sometimes styles himself as a detective with pipe and deerstalker hat like Sherlock Holmes.

A major distinction in his acting career, often overlooked, is the fact that Sennett played Sherlock Holmes 11 times, albeit as a parody, between 1911 and 1913.

Reston's dialogue makes it clear that he is Bond's son, and the grand-nephew of Sherlock Holmes.

An early famous example in popular culture is the return of Sherlock Holmes: writer Arthur Conan Doyle killed off the popular character in an encounter with his foe Professor Moriarty, only to bring Holmes back, due in large part to audience response.

Sherlock Holmes ( or ) is a fictional detective created by author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Mycroft is described as even more gifted than Sherlock in matters of observation and deduction, but he lacks Sherlock's drive and energy, preferring to spend his time at ease in the Diogenes Club, described as " a club for the most un-clubbable men in London ".

Meanwhile, the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, created by Arthur Conan Doyle, is a spyhunter for Britain in the stories " The Adventure of the Second Stain " ( 1904 ), and " The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans " ( 1912 ).

The Rainbow Affair is notable for its thinly disguised cameo appearances by The Saint, Miss Marple, John Steed, Emma Peel, Tommy Hambledon ( at whose flat Solo and Ilya encounter Steed and Peel ), Neddie Seagoon, Father Brown, a retired, elderly Sherlock Holmes, and Dr. Fu Manchu.

* In the Jeremy Brett – Edward Hardwicke The Return of Sherlock Holmes series episode " The Priory School ", mention is made that ancestors of the Duke of Holdernesse, apart from being cattle thieves, may have provided a member of the Hellfire Club ; however, no such reference is set forth in the original story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels, " Gladstone " is the name of Dr. John Watson's English bulldog.

No shit is also used sarcastically in response to a statement of the obvious, as in no shit, Sherlock.

For Field, a statement like " 2 + 2 = 4 " is just as fictitious as " Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B Baker Street " — but both are true according to the relevant fictions.

One traditional approach in this form of fiction is for the main detective's principal assistant, the " Watson ", to be the narrator: this derives from the character of Dr Watson in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.

* An exhibition about Sherlock Holmes ( part of which is now owned by Westminster Libraries and part by the Sherlock Holmes pub ).

It was also mentioned in the third episode of Season 2 of BBC's Sherlock ( TV series ), and has been speculated to have been a part of Sherlock's fake death scheme.

( Arthur Conan Doyle's The Valley of Fear, the third novel featuring Sherlock Holmes.

In his lifetime, Gillette presented Sherlock Holmes approximately 1, 300 times ( third in the historical stage-record ), before American and English audiences.

A variation on this scene is also used in " The Great Game ," the third episode of the 2010 BBC television series Sherlock.

The story is also the basis of " The Reichenbach Fall ", the third episode of the second season of the TV series Sherlock, which first aired on 15 January 2012 and shows Holmes falling from the roof of a hospital, supposedly leading to his death.

In the final scene in the 2011 film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, it is revealed that Holmes survives his encounter with Professor Moriarty ( the film is influenced by The Final Problem ), and has led to speculation that the untitled third installment to the film series will be partly influenced by The Empty House

Mark Gatiss, the co-creator of the modern day adaptation series Sherlock, has announced that the first episode of the show's third series will be based on The Adventures of The Empty House.

It is the sixth-highest grossing film not to be # 1 in the United States ( behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Alvin and the Chipmunks and its sequel, Sherlock Holmes, and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ), but worldwide, it is third behind only Ice Age 3 and Casino Royale.

" The Great Game ", the third episode of the 2010 television series Sherlock, uses several of Doyle's stories as inspiration, among them " The Bruce-Partington Plans ".

" A Case of Identity " is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and is the third story in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

By the third film, Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror ( 1942 ), now at Universal Studios, Holmes was updated to the present day.

The 1945 film Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear is partly based on " The Five Orange Pips ," as is " The Great Game ," the third episode of the 2010 television series Sherlock, which uses several of Doyle's stories as inspiration.

After The Prisoner, Markstein went to the new Thames Television, initially as an in-house script editor, then as story editor for the first series of a new counter-espionage drama Special Branch ( 1969 ); the third and final fourth series of spy drama Callan ( 1970, 1972 ); several episodes of Armchair Theatre ( 1969, 1971 ); and the first series of The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes ( 1971 ).

Under the " Hidden Messages " tab, " Sherlock " lists three coded messages he received from a stalker, and the third is in pigpen cipher.

It is the fourth of the twelve collected in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in most British editions of the canon, and third of eleven in most American ones ( owing to the omission of the " scandalous " " Adventure of the Cardboard Box ").

" The Adventure of the Yellow Face ", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the third tale from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

Later, with Andrew Sachs as Watson, Merrison continued to play Holmes in the Bert Coules-scripted pastiche series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the first series of which was broadcast in 2002, the second in 2004, the third in 2008-9 and the fourth in 2010.

Shortly after the third series in 1978, Foster was to take on the role of Sherlock Holmes in a series of radio appearances for the BBC.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

* June 25 – Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes appears in The Strand Magazine for the first time.

* In the 2009 film, Sherlock Holmes, Moriarty appears as a shadowy, mysterious villain employing Irene Adler.

* Moriarty ( voiced by Malcolm McDowell ) appears as a jewel thief in Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes, produced by Warner Brothers in 2010.

* Moriarty appears in a short story by Donald Thomas, in his collection The Secret Cases of Sherlock Holmes, as the mastermind of a blackmail plot involving the alleged bigamy of Prince George.

His younger brother, Col. James, also appears as the antagonist of another short story in Thomas's The Execution of Sherlock Holmes.

In 1979, the fictional character Sir Thomas Spivey, portrayed by actor Roy Lansford, appears in Murder by Decree, starring Christopher Plummer as Sherlock Holmes and James Mason as Doctor Watson.

Hastings appears to have been introduced by Christie in accordance with the model of Sherlock Holmes's associate, Doctor Watson, to whom he bears a marked resemblance.

Mycroft is aided by his younger brother Sherlock, Victor Trevor ( who appears in Doyle's tale " The Adventure of the Gloria Scott "), and an adventurer known as " Captain Jericho ", a mysterious former slave.

Dominic Keating also appears as Sherlock Holmes's Brother in the 2010 film Sherlock Holmes by The Asylum.

It appears in book form as part of the collection The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

There were enough holes in eyewitness accounts to allow Conan Doyle to plausibly resurrect Holmes ; only the few free surviving members of Moriarty's organisation and Holmes ' brother Mycroft ( who appears briefly in this story ) know that Sherlock Holmes is still alive, having won the struggle at Reichenbach Falls and sent Moriarty to his death – though nearly meeting his own at the hands of Moriarty's henchmen.

In Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon ( 1943 ), Holmes appears as a phony German secret agent disguised as a bookseller in Switzerland.

Gatiss appears frequently in BBC Radio productions, including the science fiction comedy Nebulous and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes story The Shameful Betrayal of Miss Emily Smith.

The Lion's mane jellyfish appears in the Sherlock Holmes short story The Adventure of the Lion's Mane published in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.

The club also appears in Nicholas Meyer's novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier graphic novel, the computer game Sherlock Holmes-Case of the Rose Tattoo, the Dark Horse Comics Predator: Nemesis comic, and in the short story " Closing Time " from Neil Gaiman's collection of short fiction Fragile Things.

Richard Lancelyn Green, the editor of the 1998 Oxford paperback edition of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, surmises that Doyle's source for the story appears to have been the article named " Called on by a Boa Constrictor.

We do not know his first name, only his initial: G. Although he appears thirteen times in the immortal adventures of Sherlock Holmes, nothing is known of the life outside the Yard of the detective whom Dr. Watson described unflatteringly as sallow, rat-faced, and dark-eyed and whom Holmes saw as quick and energetic but wholly conventional, lacking in imagination, and normally out of his depth — the best of a bad lot who had reached the top in the CID by bulldog tenacity.

The story appears in a brief and slightly altered form as The Six Thatchers in the blog associated with the second series of Sherlock, a modern adaption of the Sherlock Holmes tales.

It appears in the Penguin collection The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes ( ISBN 0-14-006432-X ).