Holmes, Sherlock

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1. A fictional English detective, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes's extraordinary powers of memory, observation, and deduction enable him to solve mysteries and identify criminals in cases that leave all other detectives baffled. His companion is Dr. Watson, who records his exploits. Holmes is often mistakenly quoted as saying, “Elementary, my dear Watson.”

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Figuratively, any shrewd detective can be called Sherlock Holmes, or simply Sherlock.

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Come to think of it, if you substitute hot yoga and Kingsman suits with smoking jackets and the noble game of billiards, present-day “lifestyle” clubs are not too unlike the London men’s club culture of gaslight and Mycroft Holmes —Sherlock’s older, smarter brother, unfailingly found at the Diogenes Club.

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"Stranger Things" breakout Millie Bobby Brown stars as Enola Holmes — Sherlock Holmes' teenage sister — in this energetic Netflix film.

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Your "Sherlock Holmes," "Sherlock" and "Elementary."

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Sherlock calls Watson "John," and Watson calls Holmes "Sherlock," and that Sherlock might be harboring the semblance of a caring person somewhere in the cold, cool chambers of his mind is something Moffat and Gatiss like to play with, for character and comedy.

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Holmes, Sherlock and the Consulting Detective Unbound Productions offers an enhanced staged reading of this mash-up of three Arthur Conan Doyle mysteries.

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