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Holmes and himself
) 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 ").
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 himself once claimed his penis to be long and in circumference.
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.

Holmes and references
Other authors have also written Sherlock Holmes stories based on the same references within the original tales.
There are a lot of references that are hard to miss, such as the fact that the little boy winds up being Charlie Chaplin, the detective is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who goes on to writing the Sherlock Holmes mysteries and Roy talks about Zeppelins " taking off " and being a successful invention despite what will happen to the Hindenburg in 1937.
The 1946 film Dressed to Kill features several references to " A Scandal in Bohemia ," with Holmes and Watson discussing the recent publication of the story in The Strand Magazine, and the villain of the film using the same trick on Watson that Holmes uses on Irene Adler in the story.
The Darcy books are rich in jokes, puns, and references ( particularly to works of detective and spy fiction: Lord Darcy is himself partially modelled on Sherlock Holmes ), elements that often appear in the shorter works about the detective.
In 1926 Holmes published The Science of Mind, which references the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Bible and Buddha.
There are references to his work in the Sherlock Holmes novels by Arthur Conan Doyle and in the works of Sigmund Freud.
" Other references include another Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, Lewis Carroll's long poem Phantasmagoria, and Bram Stoker's Dracula, which makes note of Count Dracula reading an " English Bradshaw's Guide " as part of his planning for his voyage to England.
There are some references to well-known stories ( Alice in Wonderland, Hansel and Gretel, Sherlock Holmes, ..), movies ( My Little Chickadee and other Western influences ), persons ( Marilyn Monroe, ..) and some theorems ( the Genesis Formula, Goldbach's Conjecture and Fermat's last theorem ).
Rosenberg's book may be criticized for its irreverence toward the Holmes stories and for its unprofessional use of psychoanalysis with references to sexual activity.
One of the most notable Holmes references is a version of a scene in The Sign of Four in which Holmes deduces that a pocket watch provided by Watson was formerly owned by a drunkard, upon which a furious Watson believes Holmes has callously acquired information about his unfortunate brother ( to whom the watch had belonged ) for the sake of a cheap trick.

Holmes and Watson's
Watson's insight is verified by the mysterious link between Holmes and his arch-opponent, Dr. Moriarty.
Most of the Holmes stories are frame narratives, written from Watson's point of view as summaries of the detective's most interesting cases.
Holmes is often described as criticising Watson's writings as sensational and populist, suggesting that they neglect to accurately and objectively report the pure, calculating " science " of his craft.
Because of newspaper articles and Watson's stories, however, Holmes is well known as a detective, and many clients ask for his help instead of or alongside the police.
By applying such principles in an obvious way ( using repeated applications of modus ponens ), Holmes is able to infer from his observation that " the sides of Watson's shoes are scored by several parallel cuts " that:
Similarly, by studying inanimate objects, Holmes can make astonishingly detailed deductions about their owners, including Watson's pocket-watch in " The Sign of the Four " and a hat, a pipe, and a walking stick in other stories.
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels, " Gladstone " is the name of Dr. John Watson's English bulldog.
* Gladstone, John Watson's Bulldog in the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes film series.
* Paul Freeman appeared as Professor Moriarty in the 1988 comedy Without a Clue, revolving around the premise that Holmes is a fictional creation of Watson's, and Watson is the real crime-solving genius ; Moriarty is apparently aware of the deception, with ' Holmes ' clearly terrified at the thought of facing him, although he shows his skills when facing Moriarty in a duel at the film's conclusion.
* In the 2011 Anthony Horowitz novel The House of Silk, the first " official " ( authorized by Doyle's estate ) Holmes story since Doyle's death, a chapter is dedicated to Watson's meeting with a secretive criminal mastermind.
Cedric is inspired by Archimedes, Merlin's owl familiar, he is also similar to Dr. Watson's role to Sherlock Holmes, and the mechanical owl given to Perseus by Athena to aid him on his quest.
* Mary Morstan is Dr. John Watson's fiance and future wife in the 2009 movie Sherlock Holmes and the 2010 movie Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
* 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.
Holmes arrives at Dr. Watson's one evening in a somewhat agitated state and with grazed and bleeding knuckles.
Holmes and Watson's journey takes them to Switzerland where they stay at Meiringen.
Once he manages to distract Watson's attention for a few seconds ( making Watson turn to his bookshelf to see if there is enough room to fit some books ), he transforms himself into Sherlock Holmes, much to Watson's great astonishment when he turns back round.
Holmes tells Watson that they are going to do some dangerous work that evening, and after a roundabout trip through the city, Holmes and Watson enter an empty house, and make their way to a front room overlooking — to Watson's great surprise — Baker Street.

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