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Sherlock Holmes   /ʃˈərlˌɑk hoʊmz/   Listen
Sherlock Holmes

noun
1.
A fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle.  Synonym: Holmes.






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"Sherlock holmes" Quotes from Famous Books



... pushed the world upside down, or rolled it over and over, or made it stand still, according to how they felt. Mingling with these arbiters of our fate were all sorts and conditions of men. At one of these dinners I remember seeing Inspector Byrnes, the Sherlock Holmes of American crime, Colonel Ochiltree, the red savage, Steven Fiske, Samuel Carpenter, Judge David McAdam, John W. Keller, Judge Gedney, "Pat" Gilmore, Rufus Hatch, General Horatio C. King, Frank B. Thurber, J. Amory Knox, E.B. Harper, W.J. Arkell, Dr. Nagle, the poet Geogheghan, Doc White, ...
— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage

... at suicide, either ordinary short stories nor ordinary motifs! I should hesitate to predict how far McNeile will go along this special line of his; but I see no reason why he should not give us the successor of Sherlock Holmes. ...
— When Winter Comes to Main Street • Grant Martin Overton

... visit in 1899, "Sherlock Holmes" had become the literary rage. Everybody was talking about the ...
— Charles Frohman: Manager and Man • Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman

... seven hours. The first good sleep since leaving England. And now, as we've got twenty-eight hours to go still, there's time to write a letter. The last three days' postcards have been scrappy and unintelligible, but we departed without warning and with the most Sherlock Holmes secrecy. Not a word about which ports we were sailing ...
— Letters to Helen - Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front • Keith Henderson

... true that in some cases adaptations have had enormous success: one might take two modern instances, The Little Minister and Sherlock Holmes. The latter really confirms these remarks. The general public would fancy that in the stories of "Sherlock Holmes" there are plenty of effective plots. The ingenious authors of the play were shrewd enough to perceive this was not the case; consequently they merely used certain characters from the tales and invented an entirely new story. Later on Sir Arthur did find one story suitable, ...
— Our Stage and Its Critics • "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"


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