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Sherlock and Holmes
Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.
With the advent of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, the development of the modern private detective begins.
Sherlock Holmes is not merely an individualist ; ;
The first series of Sherlock Holmes adventures ends with Holmes and Moriarty grappling together on the edge of a cliff.
Their dedication to the status quo has been affirmed at the expense of the fascinating but dangerous individualism of a Sherlock Holmes.
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.
In An Autobiography Christie admits, " I was still writing in the Sherlock Holmes tradition – eccentric detective, stooge assistant, with a Lestrade-type Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Japp ".
For his part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on Joseph Bell, who in his use of " ratiocination " prefigured Poirot's reliance on his " little grey cells ".
As early as Murder on the Links, where he still largely depends on clues, Poirot mocks a rival " bloodhound " detective who focuses on the traditional trail of clues that had been established in detective fiction by the example of Sherlock Holmes: footprints, fingerprints and cigar ash.
The characters of Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty had in reality been a set of prototype programs written for the Analytical Engine.
The islands are prominently featured in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mystery, The Sign of the Four, as well as in M. M.
From October 1903 to June 1904, Chaplin toured with Saintsbury in Charles Frohman's production of Sherlock Holmes.
He completed one final tour of Sherlock Holmes in early 1906, eventually leaving the play after more than two and a half years.
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.
In a 1985 interview on Yorkshire Television's Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes: " Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle – well, we could only keep quiet.
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.
In 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, the most famous of all fictional detectives.
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.
* Dressed to Kill, A 1946 Sherlock Holmes film uses Dartmoor Prison in the plot as the supposed location where three music boxes were made that contain a secret code for a criminal gang.
In effect, the world of all things divides, on this view, into those ( like Socrates, the planet Venus, and New York City ) that have existence in the narrow sense, and those ( like Sherlock Holmes, the goddess Venus, and Minas Tirith ) that do not.
" References to the Britannica can be found throughout English literature, most notably in one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes stories, " The Red-Headed League ".
Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.
) 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.

Sherlock and Case
*" The Strange Case of the Demon Barber " ( 8 January 1946 ), an adaptation of the Sweeney Todd story featured in an episode of the radio drama The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
* Vincent D ' Onofrio appeared as Professor Moriarty in Sherlock: Case of Evil.
She also appeared in Monty Python and the Holy Grail as a woman accused of being a witch ; in How to Irritate People, a pre-Monty Python film starring Cleese and other future Monty Python members ; and in The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It ( Cleese's Sherlock Holmes spoof, as Mrs. Hudson ).
* Richard E. Grant played him as a semi-crippled young man-following a bad trip after he was injected with drugs by Moriarty-in Sherlock: Case of Evil ( 2002 ).
* 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.
Sherlock Holmes, or The Strange Case of Miss Faulkner ( later renamed Sherlock Holmes – A Drama in Four Acts ) was finished.
* Sherlock Holmes a Play: Wherein is Set Forth the Strange Case of Miss Alice Faulkner ( Helan Halbach, Publisher, Santa Barbara, California, 1974 ), reprint of the 1935 edition ; Introduction by Vincent Starrett ; Preface by William Gillette ; Reminiscent notes and drawings by Frederic Dorr Steele
* Hosmer Angel, a character in the Sherlock Holmes story " A Case of Identity "
* The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It ( 1977 ), played by Mike O ' Malley ; a Sherlock Holmes spoof where Spade is killed by the granddaughter of Professor Moriarty
" 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.
" The Adventure of the Lion's Mane ", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes.
The title of the British collection was The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes ( hyphenated " Case-Book "), whereas title of the American was The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes (" Case Book " as two words ).
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.
Aside from a part in the suspense drama Sherlock Holmes and the Strange Case of Miss Faulkner and her desire to play more-challenging roles Entwistle was often cast as a comedienne, most often the attractive, good-hearted ingénue.
magazine in 1991 ; a metafictional Sherlock Holmes story called " Sherlock Holmes in the Curious Case of the Vanishing Villain ", painted by Woodrow Phoenix.

Sherlock and Silk
It has also produced dramas, such as Murphy's Law and Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking, and in October 2006 its drama series Robin Hood began showing on BBC One.
He has been in numerous films including The Contract, The Curse of King Tut's Tomb, Land of the Blind, The Tailor of Panama, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking, Eisenstein, The Mummy, and Anaconda.

Sherlock and ",
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.
* 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.
As seen in the surviving episode " The Frighteners ", Steed also had helpers among the population who provided information, similar to the " Baker Street Irregulars " of Sherlock Holmes.
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.
In the 1904 Sherlock Holmes story " The Adventure of the Second Stain ", the term is still used in a completely non-sexual context ( Inspector Lestrade is threatening a misbehaving constable with " finding himself in Queer Street ", i. e., in this context, being severely punished ).
* Sherlock Goof, is Goofy's third ancestor that appears in the episode, " Sherlock Goof ", the third of the " Goof History " episodes.
In 1986 Sykes played Horace Harker in " The Six Napoleons ", an episode of the Granada TV adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories starring Jeremy Brett.
* Eric Porter portrayed Professor Moriarty in two episodes of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Jeremy Brett as Holmes: " The Red-Headed League " and " The Final Problem ", and briefly in the Return of Sherlock Holmes episode: " The Empty House ".
* A holodeck simulation of Professor Moriarty, played by actor Daniel Davis, appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes " Elementary, Dear Data " and " Ship in a Bottle ", accidentally achieving sentience when Geordi LaForge asks the holodeck to create an opponent able to defeat Data ( rather than Sherlock Holmes ).
", both Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson guest star.
Another story, " The Adventure of the Greek Invertebrate " ( a play on " The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter ", the story that introduced Sherlock Holmes's brother Mycroft ), features Professor Moriarty's brothers, the colonel and the station master, and offers an explanation for the lack of variety in their forenames.
In " Ship in a Bottle ", Barclay unwittingly revives a sentient holo-simulation of Sherlock Holmes ' arch-foe, Professor James Moriarty ( previously seen in " Elementary, Dear Data ") while performing holodeck maintenance.
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.
Edgar Allan Poe's " The Gold-Bug ", and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes tale " The Adventure of the Dancing Men " are examples of stories which describe the use of frequency analysis to attack simple substitution ciphers.
In Gary Lovisi's parallel universe Sherlock Holmes short story, " The Adventure of the Missing Detective ", he is portrayed as a tyrannical king, who rules after the deaths ( under suspicious circumstances ) of both his grandmother and father.
* The 2nd episode of BBC's Sherlock, " The Blind Banker ", features a variant of this scenario.
* In the Sherlock Holmes story " The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez ", a murder mystery revolves around them.
An essay in Knox's Essays in Satire ( 1928 ), " Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes ", was the first of the genre of mock-serious critical writings on Sherlock Holmes and mock-historical studies in which the existence of Holmes, Watson, et al.
In the 1984 Granada Television series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett, the first episode, " A Scandal in Bohemia ", Adler is played by Gayle Hunnicutt.
This novel inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to write " A Study In Scarlet ", which introduced the character Sherlock Holmes.

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