Sherlock Holmes

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

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

With his aquiline nose and understated style, he drew plaudits from the likes of Orson Welles, who said of him: “It is too little to say William Gillette resembled Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes looks exactly like William Gillette.”

From New York Times

I do find myself slightly balking every time someone casually calls Holmes "Sherlock".

From The Guardian