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Holmesiana
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holmesiana
English
Etymology
From en Holmes iana.
Noun
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Memorabilia or writings related to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
en Charles Collins Bookman’s Holiday Chicago Sunday Tribune CIII 14 2 April 1944 16 https://archive.org/details/per_chicago-daily-tribune_1944-04-02_103_14/page/n117/mode/1up Rights to further discussion of the March additions to published Holmesiana are now released to Vincent Starrett, who plays a considerable role in all three books.
en w:Jacques Barzun; Wendell Hertig Taylor A Catalogue of Crime The Armchair Detective 18 2 spring 1985 220 https://archive.org/details/the-armchair-detective-v-18-n-02-1985-spring/page/220/mode/1up Here, the veteran scholar of Holmesiana gives us an imaginative account of Watson’s early life—before the meeting with Holmes.
en Zach Dundas The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y. w:Mariner Books; w:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015 2016 301 https://archive.org/details/greatdetectiveam0000dund/page/301/mode/1up 978-0-544-70521-0 The two Sherlockian special-interest books I would recommend to any casual reader who loves the character are Vincent Starrett’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes—a glimpse of the time of its own creation as much as of Holmesiana itself—and James Edward Holroyd’s happy-go-lucky Baker Street By-ways.
Synonyms
en Sherlock Holmesiana
en Sherlockiana
en eponyms
en Sherlock Holmes