sherlock holmes

     

The first words he ever spoke to his assistant were "How are you?... You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive"

Trivia about sherlock holmes

  • Barrymore, Rathbone, Roger Moore & Larry Hagman are among 61 actors to play this character
  • A statue of him stands outside the London Underground Baker Street station
  • Elementary, my dear Watson: "Baker Street" was a musical about this detective
  • This Sir Arthur Conan Doyle character once remarked "A man's brain originally is like a little empty attic"
  • Steven Spielberg produced a 1985 film about this Conan Doyle detective's first case
  • A Bret Harte tale parodied this detective as Hemlock Jones
  • Jeremy Brett, who played this British detective on 41 TV episodes, passed away in 1995
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used to imbibe at the London pub now named for this fictional detective
  • One of the most famous fictional crimesolvers ever, he also played the violin & used cocaine
  • Illustrator Sidney Paget, not his creator, gave this character his deerstalker cap
  • This detective solved 1892's "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", but didn't have the guilty party arrested
  • Among this famous literary detective's exploits is the "Adventure of the Devil's Foot"
  • This 19th century character was known for his pipe smoking, violin playing & even cocaine use
  • The first known adaptation of a story about this detective was 1937's "The Three Garridebs"
  • The original author’s last story about this detective was “The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place”
  • I liked "The Adventures of" this detective, except his friend Dr. Watson is really boring
  • This famous sleuth simply could not be beat, & to think that I saw him at 221B Baker Street!
  • He shocks Watson when he poses as a plumber & romances a housemaid for the purpose of burglary
  • "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane" is 1 of 2 stories he narrates; Watson relates the rest
  • He spoke his final line in 1927: "It is nearly midnight, Watson, and I think we may make our way back to our humble abode"
  • In "The Sign of Four" this sleuth employs Toby the dog to track 2 fugitives
  • He shared digs with John Watson at 221-B Baker Street
  • A museum dedicated to this literary character is located, where else, but at "221B" Baker Street in London
  • Jeremy Brett played this consulting detective in programs like "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"
  • This detective calls blackmailer Charles Augustus Milverton the worst man in London
  • "The Musgrave Ritual" begins with Watson's complaint about this man's slovenly habits
  • This detective was modeled in part on Dr. Joseph Bell, one of Arthur Conan Doyle's teachers
  • In this detective's 1892 "Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", the carbuncle was a blue garnet hidden in a goose
  • John Watson,a medical doctor
  • Basil Rathbone played this deerstalker-donning detective 15 times on film (& despaired at being typed by the role)
  • A lion's mane jellyfish is the means of death in a 1926 story featuring this British detective
  • In "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution", this literary character is treated by Sigmund Freud for drug addiction
  • Chris Columbus penned the script about this "Young" title character who solved murders aided by John Watson
  • The Times liked the "smoky, greasy, steam-punk rendering of Victorian London" in this 2009 Robert Downey Jr. caper
  • Nicholas Meyer's "The West End Horror" takes this Victorian detective into the theatrical world
  • In the movies, this great fictional British detective often wore a hat called a deerstalker
  • "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"
  • Elementary, my dear Watson; Leslie Howard's son Ronald played him on a 1954 TV series
  • Reichenbach Falls in the Swiss canton of Bern was the setting of this literary hero's reported demise