Tiling at Baker Street incorporates repetitions of Sherlock Holmes's silhouette.

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.

* Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds, a sequel to The War of the Worlds by Manly Wade Wellman and Wade Wellman

Other popular characters included by Farmer as members of the Wold Newton family are: Solomon Kane ; Captain Blood ; The Scarlet Pimpernel ; Sherlock Holmes's nemesis Professor Moriarty ; Phileas Fogg ; The Time Traveller ( main character of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells ); Allan Quatermain ; A. J.

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.

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 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.

Among their collaborations are a series of mysteries featuring Victoire Vernet, fictional wife of one of Napoleon's generals, a series featuring Sherlock Holmes's brother Mycroft, and a series fictionalizing the espionage experiences of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.

In these sketches, he is aided a trusted companion, Watson ( a dog performed by Kevin Clash ), a spoof of Sherlock Holmes's companion, Dr. Watson.

Unique tile-work in this station, commemorates the fictional Sherlock Holmes's association with Baker Street

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.

Hastings appears to have been introduced by Christie in accordance with the model of Sherlock Holmes's associate, Doctor Watson, to whom he bears a marked resemblance.

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.

Basil and Dawson take Toby, Sherlock Holmes's pet dog, to track Fidget's scent, where they find him in a toyshop stealing clockwork mechanisms and toy soldiers ' uniforms.

Dominic Keating also appears as Sherlock Holmes's Brother in the 2010 film Sherlock Holmes by The Asylum.

* Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds: Manly Wade Wellman and Wade Wellman.

She loved Sherlock Holmes's stories because of their twists, which often result from overlooked details.

This Sherlock Holmes story is one of four in which Holmes's brother Mycroft is mentioned.

Sherlock Holmes's detective powers are barely challenged as this turns out to be quite an elementary case for him, much as it puzzles Watson.

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.

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.

* In the young adult fiction book Death Cloud by Andy Lane, Mycroft Holmes tells 14-year-old Sherlock Holmes about semaphore stations, commenting about his school beforehand, saying " All the Latin a boy can cram into his skull, but nothing of practical use.

While he does occasionally exert himself in these stories on behalf of his brother, he on the whole remains a sedentary problem-solver, providing solutions based on seemingly no evidence and trusting Sherlock to handle any of the practical details.

* 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.

NYFA founder Jerry Sherlock explained to the Times in 2005 that he opened the school after hearing interest from parents and older relatives of aspiring young film-makers, and that he wanted to focus on practical experience.

In the remainder of the series, the animals of the Bean Farm lead a highly developed life, variously operating a bank, a newspaper, the First Animal Republic, and Freddy's detective business, which follows the principles of Sherlock Holmes as Freddy knows them from his reading.

The islands are prominently featured in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mystery, The Sign of the Four, as well as in M. M.

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.

Fans of the literary detective Sherlock Holmes are widely considered to have comprised the first modern fandom creating some of the first fan fiction as early as 1887 and holding public demonstrations of mourning after Holmes was " killed " off in 1893.

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.

Several video games are based on or influenced heavily by Lovecraft such as Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Shadow of the Comet, Prisoner of Ice, Shadowman, Alone in the Dark, Chzo Mythos, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Cthulhu Saves the World, Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Dead Space, Splatterhouse, Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder, Penumbra, and Quake.

However, some years later Bell wrote in a letter to Conan Doyle: " you are yourself Sherlock Holmes and well you know it.

If there are — if, for instance, there are possible but non-actual dogs ( dogs of some non-actual but possible species, perhaps ) or nonexistent beings ( like Sherlock Holmes, perhaps ), then these things might also figure in the extensions of various concepts and expressions.

( Sherlock Holmes seems to be an actual example of a fictional character ; one might think there are many other characters Arthur Conan Doyle might have invented, though he actually invented Holmes.

For Field, a statement like " 2 + 2 = 4 " is just as fictitious as " Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B Baker Street " — but both are true according to the relevant fictions.

Examples of pastiche are the Sherlock Holmes stories written by John Dickson Carr, and hundreds of similar works by such authors as E. B. Greenwood.

Sherlock Holmes and Dracula are notably absent from the League's adventures due to their assumed deaths prior to the events of the series.

So, for instance, many books may be set in conflicting fictional versions of Victorian London, but all the stories of Sherlock Holmes are set in the same Victorian London.

* John Huston portrayed Moriarty in the made-for-TV movie Sherlock Holmes in New York opposite Roger Moore's Holmes, attempting to rob the bank of New York while threatening Irene Adler's son to prevent Holmes from investigating, although Holmes and Watson are able to rescue the son and solve the crime regardless.

The Sherlock Holmes mysteries of Arthur Conan Doyle are said to have been singularly responsible for the huge popularity in this genre.

Some well-known fictional sidekicks are Don Quixote's Sancho Panza, Sherlock Holmes ' Doctor Watson, The Lone Ranger's Tonto, The Green Hornet's Kato, and Batman's Robin.

Elements of the same incident are suggested by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes short story The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans.

* The events that Sherlock Holmes investigates in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ’ s " The Sign of Four " are set in motion by the background story of Jonathan Small, who had served time in the Andaman Islands penal colony.

# East of Ealing ( 1984 )-Pooley and Omally are forced to deal with a high-tech Satanic takeover of Earth by way of barcoding the entire population, aided by a temporally-relocated version of Sherlock Holmes.

Perspective, interpretive knowledge, focalization and structure are the narrator's characterisa viewpoint character is Dr. Watson from the Sherlock Holmes stories.

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.