) 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.

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 ").

Holmes himself references Watson's moderation in " The Adventure of the Devil's Foot ", saying, " I think, Watson, that I shall resume that course of tobacco-poisoning which you have so often and so justly condemned ".

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 ).

The model which Conan Doyle himself mentions ( through Sherlock Holmes ) in The Valley of Fear is the London arch-criminal of the 18th century, Jonathan Wild.

* 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.

To support himself and his drug habit, Holmes ventured into crime, selling drugs for gangs, prostituting himself to both men and women, and committing credit card fraud and petty theft.

After Holmes fell on hard times, he prostituted both her and himself, as well as beating her in public.

Holmes ' first wife recalled him claiming to be when he first measured himself.

Holmes ' long-time friend and industry associate, Bill Amerson, said that " I saw John measure himself several times, it was 13 and a half inches " ( 34. 3 cm ).

But because of Holmes ' escalating drug addiction and of the lack of money to operate the store since Holmes was squandering all of his and other people's money to buy cocaine for himself, the business failed by the end of that very year.

Holmes ' career was promoted with a series of outrageous claims that he made over the years ( many made up on the spur of the moment by Holmes himself ).

* The fictional Sherlock Holmes often disguised himself as somebody else to avoid being recognized.

Humphreys departed in 1989 with Malcolm Holmes ( drums ) and Martin Cooper ( various instruments ) to form The Listening Pool, leaving McCluskey to lead the band by himself.

Shavers knocked Holmes down in round seven but was himself knocked out in round eleven after taking punishment.

Geniuses like Sherlock Holmes often find a use for faithful mediocrities like Dr. Watson, and by a coincidence it is the local doctor who follows Poirot round, and himself tells the story.

Their reason: Holmes once paid a $20 speeding fine, had his license suspended.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who once lived in Birmingham, may have borrowed Baskerville's surname for one of his Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles – which, in turn, was borrowed by Umberto Eco for the character William of Baskerville in his best-selling novel, The Name of the Rose ( Sean Connery played the character in the film based on the book ).

Although Holmes appears to show initial interest in some female clients ( in particular, Violet Hunter in " The Adventure of the Copper Beeches "), Watson says he inevitably " manifested no further interest in the client when once she had ceased to be the centre of one of his problems ".

" Later, in " The Adventure of the Empty House " Holmes refers once to Moriarty as " Professor James Moriarty ".

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.

A recently-built Community & Cultural Center serves Detroit Lakes, incorporating a new fitness center with the completely renovated brick building that once was the Holmes School.

After the fight, Holmes once again retired.

Sherlock Holmes once said that he purchased his Stradivarius from, " a Jew broker in the Tottenham Court Road.

Chris Holmes left the band once again in 2002, stating that he wanted to ' play the blues '.

He won the Silver Goblets & Nickalls ' Challenge Cup for coxless pairs seven times ( twice with Andy Holmes, once with Simon Berrisford and four times with Matthew Pinsent ), the Stewards ' Challenge Cup for coxless fours five times, the Diamond Challenge Sculls twice, the Double Sculls Challenge Cup once ( with Eric Sims ) and the Queen Mother Challenge Cup for quadruple sculls once.

In " The Five Orange Pips ", Holmes mentions that he has been beaten four times, thrice by a man and once by a woman.

In the 2009 novel The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King, it is stated that Irene Adler, who is deceased when the book begins, once had an affair with main character Sherlock Holmes and gave birth to a son, Damian Adler, an artist now known as The Addler.

Meanwhile, Holmes withdraws once more to his bedroom with his violin and soon the strains of the Barcarolle from the Tales of Hoffmann emanate from Holmes's room.

Holmes realises at once it is a hoax although he does not say so.

Holmes was first elected to state office in 1974 and has only been defeated once, in the post-Watergate backlash against Republicans in 1976.

* It is claimed that Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy once performed at the music hall that is now Holmes Place / Virgin Gym and that they stayed at the Queen's Hotel.

This lack of support dismayed friends like James Russell Lowell, who once told Holmes he should be more outspoken against slavery.

Holmes once more solves the puzzle to the chagrin of Inspector Lestrade.

He gets three applicants at 221B Baker Street for the job, and one of them is indeed Peter Carey ’ s killer, as confirmed by his name, Patrick Cairns ( the tobacco pouch was his, not Carey ’ s ), and the fact that Holmes had established that he was once Carey ’ s shipmate.

Faulk had another excellent season, rushing 260 times for a career-high 1, 382 yards ( 5. 3 yards per carry ), and catching 83 passes for 765 yards, for an NFC-leading total of 2, 147 yards from scrimmage ( second in the NFL only to Priest Holmes, who totaled 2, 169 yards ) and scoring 21 touchdowns despite once again missing 2 games to injuries.

) To substantiate this number, and assuming Holmes ' first experience with a woman occurred at 16 as he claimed., then he would have had to have sex with 666 women a year — 1. 8 women a day — for the next 21 years.

According to Laurie Holmes, he claimed that he never used hypodermic needles and was deeply afraid of them.

Not wanting to reveal the true nature of his failing health, Holmes claimed to the press that he was suffering from colon cancer.

Holmes, for his part, has claimed he never played on Unholy Terror.

In early 1875 Olcott was asked by prominent Spiritualists to investigate an accusation of fraud against the mediums Jenny and Nelson Holmes, who had claimed to materialize the famous " spirit control " Katie King ( Doyle 1926: volume 1, 269-277 ).

" The importance, Kirsch claimed, sprung from " a revolution in taste, a return to qualities in fiction which all but submerged in the 20th-century vogue of realism and naturalism " and the importance was such that they were " comparable ... only to the phenomenon of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories ".

In 1927, Holmes wrote the 8-1 majority opinion in the Buck v. Bell case that upheld the forced sterilization of a woman who was claimed to be of below average intelligence.

She claimed to know nothing of the reason for the argument between her neighbours, but once told by Holmes that Nancy could easily face a murder charge, she feels that she can betray her promise to her and tells all.

In May 2006, it was while she was presenting The National Lottery Jet Set, alongside Eamonn Holmes that Fathers 4 Justice invaded the studio, she however carried on and later claimed it was her training on MTV which allowed her to ' ad-lib '.

Touching at Gorée, Holmes bluntly informed the Dutch governor that the King of England claimed the exclusive right of trade and navigation between Cape Verde and the Cape of Good Hope ( which the King and Sir George Downing disavowed after protests from the States General and retaliatory action against English shipping ).

When at the battle of Lowestoft ( 3 June 1665 ) the rear-admiral of the white, Robert Sansum, was killed, Holmes claimed his post ( which Rupert endorsed ), but James gave the flag to his own flag captain, Harman.

# Completely Incomplete-Mike Holmes arrives to a second-story addition that was claimed by the original contractor to be " 99 % complete ", and had liened the property when the homeowners refused to pay in full before the project was complete.