* Sherlock Hemlock, the name of a Muppet detective

* Sherlock Hemlock from Sesame Street – teaching Occam's razor to young children, Sherlock Hemlock comes up with a complex solution to a simple problem.

He has regularly appeared in skits with Cookie Monster, Sherlock Hemlock and Lefty the Salesman.

Sherlock Hemlock ( who calls himself " the world's greatest detective ") is a former Muppet character on the children's TV show Sesame Street.

Sherlock Hemlock was performed by Jerry Nelson.

While Sherlock Hemlock made frequent appearances on the show in the 1970s and ' 80s, in recent years he has been phased out in favor of newer characters.

Sherlock Hemlock is an obvious parody of Sherlock Holmes and the stereotypical detective.

Sherlock Hemlock is known for his humorous skits in which he tries to solve a mystery, only to discover that he is the culprit.

In this skit, Ernie opens his lunch box to find that half of his sandwich is missing, so he asks Sherlock Hemlock to help him figure out who took the missing half.

Sherlock Hemlock starred in all of the episodes of a former recurring Sesame Street segment, " Mysterious Theater " ( hosted by Vincent Twice Vincent Twice ), which is spoof of the TV series Mystery!

The following Sesame Street books feature Sherlock Hemlock as the main character:

* Sherlock Hemlock and the Creatures from Outer Space ( Western Publishing, 1981 ) written by Ray Sipherd and illustrated by Sammis McLean.

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— The contestants, ( Cookie Monster, Don Music and Sherlock Hemlock ), must guess who the Mystery Guest is.

He received a number of his major characters early in the show's run, including the Sherlock Holmes parody Sherlock Hemlock ( 1970 – 1995, 2010 ), a hapless magician named The Amazing Mumford ( 1971 – 2012 ), and the overly strong, but sensitive Herry Monster ( 1970 – 2012 ).

** Sherlock Hemlock, a muppet from the TV show Sesame Street

# X Marks the Spot, with Sherlock Hemlock

In the BBC TV series Sherlock episode " The Great Game ", John Watson believes a cat named Sekhmet is responsible for the death of her owner.

The year marked several publications on the literarily influential Boer Wars: Winston Churchill, the future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and a major Allied political figure in World War II penned a memoir, Ian Hamilton's March, describing his experiences accompanying the British army during the Second Boer War, and Arthur Conan Doyle ( famous as the creator of Sherlock Holmes ) wrote on the subject in his The Great Boer War.

Films based on British historical events ; RMS Titanic, Piracy in the Caribbean, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Great Escape, historical people ; William Wallace, Lawrence of Arabia, King Arthur, Elizabeth I, British stories ; The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, James Bond, The Chronicles of Narnia, Sherlock Holmes, Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Treasure Island, The War of the Worlds among many others, while British video game Tomb Raider featuring English archaeologist Lara Croft, has been made into feature films.

A scene in the BBC series Sherlock episode The Great Game takes place beneath the bridge's northern side, where members of Sherlock's homeless network congregate.

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

What differentiates this case from many other retcons and reboots is the fact that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did not need to alter the initial stories in any ways, since he had never given any substantial evidence that Sherlock Holmes died, in the first place: the " death " of the Great Detective was only a mistake on the part of the police and Dr Watson who misread the signs on the place of his apparent death.

" 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 ".

The narrator can be the protagonist ( e. g., Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels ), someone very close to him who is privy to his thoughts and actions ( Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes ), or an ancillary character who has little to do with the action of the story ( such as Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby ).

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.

In fiction, Sherlock Holmes, Basil the Great Mouse Detective, Sherlock Hound, Danger Mouse, Sexton Blake, Carland Cross and James Black ( Case Closed ) have all resided along the road.

St Bartholomew the Great church was the location of the fourth wedding in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral and of some scenes in various others: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Shakespeare in Love, the 1999 film version of Graham Greene's 1951 novel The End of the Affair, Amazing Grace ( 2006 ), Elizabeth: The Golden Age ( 2007 ), The Other Boleyn Girl ( 2008 ), and " Sherlock Homes " ( 2009 ).

* The Parker Duofold is mentioned in Episode 3 of the BBC series Sherlock (' The Great Game ')

* My Sherlock Holmes: Untold Stories of the Great Detective ( 2003 )

Though never explicitly stated, various contextual clues within the story ( the most obvious of which being the appearance of Sherlock Holmes ( or " The Great Detective ") imply that it takes place during the late Victorian period ( in actuality, the year 1887 based upon Halloween full moon appearance dates for the London area as confirmed by the Royal Observatory ).

For his 1981 book The Great Detectives, he wrote a Sherlock Holmes pastiche instead of a biographical sketch.

As well as Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Clara Butt, other famous guests of the hotel have included: munitions heiress Bertha Krupp, who donated a Bechstein grand piano to the hotel ; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes, for whom the Blue Mountains were the inspiration for The Lost World ; and more recently, Russell Crowe who was asked to remove his baseball cap while dining in the Great Dining Hall in 1994.

He is credited as having compiled the book The Moriarty Papers-The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes's Great Nemesis which claims to give an insight into many of Professor Moriarty's plots and schemes.

The series ' unique approach to the world of Sherlock Holmes garnered Read an award from the Writer's Guild of Great Britain.

* The Mystery Collection ( 1995 ; contained Deadline, Lurking Horror, Moonmist, Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels, Suspect and The Witness.

* Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery ( 1999 ) ISBN 0-670-88821-4 & ISBN 0-14-029645-X

* The Magic Bullet: A Locked Room Mystery Featuring Shadwell Rafferty and Sherlock Holmes ( 2011 ) ISBN 0-8166-7480-9

The road is featured briefly in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when Harry and his friends were escaping from Death Eaters, by J. K. Rowling ; The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ; Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and its musical adaptation, My Fair Lady ; Saturday and Atonement by Ian McEwan ; several Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; the Saki story Reginald on Christmas Presents ; several stories by John Collier ; A Room with a View by E. M. Forster ; The London Eye Mystery, The Late Mr Elvesham by Herbert G. Wells by Siobhan Dowd ; The Wish House by Celia Rees ; a The Matrix-based story, Goliath by Neil Gaiman ; features often in novels by Mark Billingham and The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon.

* British writer Colin Dexter, author of the Inspector Morse series of books, wrote a Sherlock Holmes short story " A Case of Mis-Identity ", part of a collection of short stories published under the title " Morse's Greatest Mystery ", in which Watson's practical knowledge of the circumstances of a case outwits the armchair intellectual logic of both Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes.

The following year came The Death of Tchaikovsky-a Sherlock Holmes Mystery, in which Kington appeared in person at the Edinburgh Festival.

* Death Of Tchaikovsky – A Sherlock Holmes Mystery.

* Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Persian Carpet ( Frogwares ) ( PC )

" The Boscombe Valley Mystery ", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the fourth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

During the 1980s and 1990s he made a number of TV appearances, including the Doctor Who serial Planet of Fire ( 1984 ), Hammer House of Mystery & Suspense ( 1984 ), The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ( 1994 ) and the film Tank Malling ( 1989 ).

He played James McCarthy, a young man accused of murdering his father, in " The Boscombe Valley Mystery ," in Granada's The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes.

Around half the stories in the collection had previously been published separately: " A Shambles in Belgravia " in BBC Online's Sherlock Holmes anthology, " A Volume in Vermilion " in Sherlock Holmes ' Mystery Magazine, " The Red Planet League " in Gaslight Grimoire, and " The Adventure of the Six Maledictions " in Gaslight Arcanum.

Although he doesn't appear himself, Sebastian Moran plays a small part and is mentioned in the novel and Granada television series Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House written by Gerald Frow ( his non-canonical younger brother Jasper Moran does appear however ).

Mystery in London: On the Trail of Jack the Ripper ( 2007 ) fuses the Ripper story with The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, while Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper ( 2009 ) fuses with the fictional world of Sherlock Holmes.