Dr. Watson strongly disapproves of his friend's cocaine habit, describing it as the detective's " only vice " and expressing concern over its possible effect on Holmes's mental health and superior intellect.

The ground floor of the Castle contained Holmes's own relocated drugstore and various shops, while the upper two floors contained his personal office and a maze of over 100 windowless rooms with doorways opening to brick walls, oddly-angled hallways, stairways to nowhere, doors openable only from the outside, and a host of other strange and labyrinthine constructions.

After the custodian for " the Castle " informed police that he was never allowed to clean the upper floors, police began a thorough investigation over the course of the next month, uncovering Holmes's efficient methods of committing murders and then disposing of the corpses.

Holmes's neck did not snap immediately ; he instead died slowly, twitching over 15 minutes before being pronounced dead 20 minutes after the trap had been sprung.

Holmes gives Watson a written message, tells him to give it to Youghal of the CID, and ushers him out the back way over his objections at Holmes's exposing himself to such danger.

Roxburgh appeared as three iconic characters over the next three years: he played Sherlock Holmes in 2002's The Hound of the Baskervilles, Holmes's nemesis Professor Moriarty in 2003's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Count Dracula in 2004's Van Helsing.

An estimate of Holmes's age in the story " His Last Bow " places his birth in 1854 ; the story is set in August 1914 and he is described as being 60 years of age.

* In The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes, set during Holmes's three-year fake ' death ', Holmes encounters Moriarty during his trip in Tibet, where he learns that Moriarty is actually the Dark One, a former Tibetian mystic possessing great psychic powers who lost his memories in an attack on the Dalai Lama, only for his near-death experience on the Reichenbach Falls to restore his memory, albeit leaving him horribly crippled and disfigured by his injuries.

The Special Operations Executive ( SOE ), tasked by Winston Churchill to " set Europe ablaze " during World War II, had their headquarters at 64 Baker Street and were often called " the Baker Street Irregulars " after Sherlock Holmes's fictional group of boys employed " to go everywhere, see everything and overhear everyone ," as they spied about London.

This story, set in 1891, introduces Holmes's greatest opponent, the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty.

Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds introduces the famous detective to the scene of London occupied by Martian invaders, depicted by H. G. Wells-the crossover facilitated by the fact that both works, set in late Victorian London, are now in the public domain and can be freely used and modified.

On January 1, 2006, in a game versus the Green Bay Packers, Alexander set the single season touchdown record at 28, and tied Priest Holmes's record of 27 rushing touchdowns in a season.

Runan's story follows a strict set of scenarios where he battles against an enemy empire, but it is possible to ignore the main scenarios to gather treasure and increase the army's strength during Holmes's story.

According to Trevor's confession the Gloria Scott left Falmouth " thirty years ago " and precisely in 1855, but that would set Holmes's enquiry in 1885 and not in his college years, as he told Watson.

Soon after, the sceptical Cantlemere shows up at Holmes's rooms, and Holmes plays a practical joke on him by slipping the Mazarin Stone into his overcoat pocket, humorously suggesting that Cantlemere is the fence.

The Granada TV version with Jeremy Brett was relatively faithful to the original story ; however, it has a comic relief ending when Holmes's chemical experiment causes the flat to fill up with smoke, and brings the fire brigade to the scene.

Holmes's investigation of the mystery is delayed because he is engaged in clearing up " the case which my friend Watson has described as that of the Abbey School, in which the Duke of Greyminster was so deeply involved ".

These essays, which would evolve into one of Holmes's most popular works, were published in November 1831 and February 1832 in the New England Magazine under the title " The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table ".

Jeremy Brett was taken ill during the production of the Granada Television adaptation of this story ( which was also a conflation with " The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone " and transmitted under the latter title ) and so Holmes's role in the plot was taken by Mycroft Holmes with Charles Gray called in at short notice to reprise his role as Sherlock's older brother.

Explicit details about Sherlock Holmes's life outside of the adventures recorded by Dr. Watson are few and far between in Conan Doyle's original stories ; nevertheless, incidental details about his early life and extended families portray a loose biographical picture of the detective.

The number of his victims has typically been estimated between 20 and 100, and even as high as 200, based upon missing persons reports of the time as well as the testimony of Holmes's neighbors who reported seeing him accompany unidentified young women into his hotel — young women whom they never saw exit.

* 1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as " Holmes's Bonfire ".

Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories featuring Holmes, and all but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend, assistant, and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson.

All but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson ; two are narrated by Holmes himself (" The Blanched Soldier " and " The Lion's Mane ") and two others are written in the third person (" The Mazarin Stone " and " His Last Bow ").

Second, he is Holmes's chronicler ( his " Boswell " as Holmes refers to him ).

In " The Adventure of the Priory School ", Holmes rubs his hands with glee when the Duke of Holdernesse notes the 6, 000 pound sterling sum, which surprises even Watson, and then pats the cheque, saying, " I am a poor man ", an incident that could be dismissed as representative of Holmes's tendency toward sarcastic humour.

* August 9 – Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships in the Vlie estuary, and pillaging the town of West-Terschelling, an act later referred to as Holmes's Bonfire.

The mood in the Republic now turned very belligerent, also because in August English vice-admiral Robert Holmes during his raid on the Vlie estuary in August 1666, destroyed about 130 merchantmen ( Holmes's Bonfire ) and sacked the island of Terschelling, setting the town of West-Terschelling aflame.

The character of Moriarty as Holmes's greatest enemy was introduced primarily as a narrative device to enable Conan Doyle to kill off Sherlock Holmes, and only featured directly in two of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

He has full respect for Holmes's intellect and says that it has been an intellectual treat to grapple with him but is also completely willing to kill Holmes should he oppose him any further, showing a ruthless side.

He attempts to acquire a legendary crystal that would allow him to wield even greater power, but, although Moriarty acquires the crystal, boosting his powers and healing his injuries, he is defeated when it is revealed that Holmes is partly possessed by the spirit of the Dark One's old rival, allowing Holmes to wield similar powers to Moriarty's and delay him long enough for Holmes's ally, Huree Chunder Mockerjee, to knock the crystal away from Moriarty and into Holmes's hands, allowing Holmes to turn Moriarty's powers against him, vaporising his body and destroying him once and for all.

* In The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King, an elderly Holmes and his protegee, Mary Russell, are pursued by Moriarty's middle-aged daughter, also an Oxford mathematics don, and a criminal kingpin in her own right, who threatens Holmes's remaining friends as she attempts to force Holmes to kill himself after signing a fake confession ' admitting ' that he framed her father to be a criminal out of jealousy aand that most of his cases were solved by others, only for Holmes to provoke her by noting that her father essentially committed suicide by confronting Holmes in such an isolated spot without any weapons, resulting in her accidentally shooting herself when struggling with Mary Russell in a fit of rage.

The town was burnt to the ground by the English on this occasion which would become known as " Holmes's Bonfire " after the English admiral Holmes, the Great Fire of London in the very same year was considered by some to have been God's retribution.

The presence of Chief Inspector Japp, a close " literary descendant " of Holmes's Inspector Lestrade, fleshed out Christie's adoption of the Holmes paradigm.

Lady Heather often wears Victorian-style dresses, referencing Holmes's era (" Slaves of Las Vegas ", " Lady Heather's Box ," " Pirates of the Third Reich ," and " The Good, the Bad, and the Dominatrix ").

Holmes's credibility has been doubted by an article on the Cryptomundo website, which states that he has a history of reporting sightings of cryptozoological creatures, and sells a self-published book and DVD claiming evidence for fairies.

Nor does Watson condemn Holmes's willingness to bend the truth or break the law on behalf of a client ( e. g., lying to the police, concealing evidence or breaking into houses ) when he feels it morally justifiable.

" " Holmesian deduction " appears to consist primarily of drawing inferences based on either straightforward practical principles — which are the result of careful observation, such as Holmes's study of different kinds of cigar ashes — or inference to the best explanation.

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.

Sidhu Jyatha, whose formal name is Shiddeshwar Basu, is an aged character who has described himself to be like Sherlock Holmes's brother Mycroft, living on Sardar Sankar Road, Lake Market, Kolkata.

Further east, in the Haslital are the Aareschlucht and the town of Meiringen, famous for the fateful scene of Sherlock Holmes's ' death ' at the hands of Professor Moriarty on the nearby Reichenbach Falls.

Holmes's murder spree finally ended when he was arrested in Boston on November 17, 1894, after being tracked there from Philadelphia by the Pinkertons.

Then, on March 7, 1914, the Chicago Tribune reported that, with the death of the former caretaker of the Murder Castle, Pat Quinlan, " the mysteries of Holmes's Castle " would remain unexplained.

Once the ruffian shoots his air gun, scoring a direct hit on Holmes's dummy across the street, Holmes and Watson are on him, and he is soon disarmed and restrained.

Holmes's art of detection consists in logical deduction based on minute details that escape everyone else's notice, and the careful and systematic elimination of all clues that in the course of his investigation turn out to lead nowhere.

Colin Dexter, known for writing the Inspector Morse novels, wrote a short story based on this called " A Case of Mis-Identity ", in which Holmes's brother Mycroft is involved in the case's deduction ; in this story, Holmes's theory about the ' Hosmer Angel ' character is the same, while Mycroft deduces that ' Hosmer Angel ' is a fiction created by the mother and daughter to eliminate the step-father, only for Watson to reveal that ' Hosmer Angel ' is actually a real person who suffered an attack due to an illness on the way to his wedding and was treated by Watson shortly before the case was officially presented to Holmes.

The appointment was made on the recommendation of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge ( Roosevelt reportedly admired Holmes's " Soldier's Faith " speech as well ).