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.

In addition to biographical shows, the network has been airing fictional, non-biographical programming previously seen on A & E, including Murder, She Wrote and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, though this practice ended in 2007.

Few lawmen in 1883 put their noses on the carpet and searched for clues in the manner of a Sherlock Holmes ( Holmes had not yet surfaced – his first adventure was published in 1887 ) and not many did the legwork that ended Black Bart ’ s escapades.

* Sherlock Hemlock from Sesame Street – teaching Occam's razor to young children, Sherlock Hemlock comes up with a complex solution to a simple problem.

Other landmark examples include a character made up of broken pieces of a stained-glass window in Young Sherlock Holmes, a shapeshifting character in Willow, a tentacle of water in The Abyss, the T-1000 Terminator in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, hordes of armies of robots and fantastic creatures in the Star Wars prequel trilogy and The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the planet Pandora in Avatar.

Gillingham plays Sherlock Holmes to his younger counterpart's Doctor Watson ; they progress almost playfully through the novel while the clues mount up and the theories abound.

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.

When the son and daughter of an influential American politician get kidnapped from a pricey boarding school, it is up to Sherlock and Dr. Watson to find them.

Like Sherlock Holmes, he has an omnivorous reading habit ( reflecting that of Ray's own ), which add up to his enormous general knowledge.

* In Jasper Fforde's series of books about Thursday Next, Mycroft is revealed to be Thursday's uncle, having escaped into fiction and taken up residence in the Sherlock Holmes series to escape the evil Goliath Corporation.

S. E. Dahlinger, leading expert on the play Sherlock Holmes, summed him up: " Without seeming to raise his voice or ever to force an emotion, he could be thrilling without bombast or infinitely touching without descending to sentimentality.

In 1986 he moved to England where he set up a software company whose flagship product was a file-searching program called UltraFind for the Apple Macintosh similar to, but predating by many years, Apple's Sherlock.

When the " Sherlock Holmes " stories were first published, street numbers in Baker Street only went up to 100, which was presumably why Conan Doyle chose a higher street number for the location of his hero, to prevent any person's actual residence from being affected by the stories ' popularity.

* Sherlock Holmes ( 2009 ) ( two intelligent detectives, one sensible, one slightly eccentric, teamed up )

" I shut myself up and devoted my whole mind to making a sensational Sherlock Holmes drama.

* The events leading up to and beyond this story were described in Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac ( 1994, ISBN 978-0-7490-0546-7 ), by Barrie Roberts.

Simon Vandenbergh's grandson, John Vandenbergh Quick was the inventor of the first pop up book and his grandson created the images of Sherlock Holmes and Mother Goose as we know them today in wood carvings.

* At the start of the 1946 Sherlock Holmes film Terror by Night, the narrator speaks of a famous diamond " First touched by the fingers of the humble kaffir ..." while a black man is shown picking up a stone from the ground.

" Beam me up, Scotty " is similar to the phrase, " Just the facts, ma ' am ", attributed to Jack Webb's character of Joe Friday on Dragnet, " It's elementary, my dear Watson ", attributed to Sherlock Holmes, " Luke, I am your father ", attributed to Darth Vader, or " Play it again, Sam ", attributed to Humphrey Bogart's character in Casablanca and " We don't need no stinkin ' badges!

During previous years, Oldsberg and his co-host used to read a text dressed up as Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes, giving progressively easier clues about a specific celebrity.

Slam returned in Detective Comics # 572 ( the 50th anniversary issue ), teaming up with Batman, Robin, Elongated Man, and Sherlock Holmes.

Dr. Watson specifically calls Sherlock out for " turning up his coat collar so he looks cool.

It is picked up by Elijah Snow from Sherlock Holmes ' book shelf.

Jealous of his more famous brother, Sigerson teams up with a Scotland Yard records clerk ( Feldman ) and a would-be opera singer ( Kahn ) to solve a case that Sherlock is unable to attend to, putting him up against both Moriarty ( McKern ) and a blackmailer ( De Luise ).

The title " Hellig Usvart " is Norwegian, a fact which led many to believe, while Sherlock was still anonymous, that Horde originated from Norway, a fact backed up by the poor production quality on the album, considered to be a trademark of Norwegian black metal.