Meaning of Sherlock Holmes-iana | Babel Free

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Uncommon form of Sherlock Holmesiana.

form-of, plural, plural-only, uncommon

Examples

“Sherlock Holmes-iana. All Exc. Doyle”

““There I was, beating this great girl in a barstool game of trivia, until she came up with her Sherlock Holmes-iana,” New Yorker [Nicholas] Meyer said yesterday during a visit⟳ to San Francisco. “There she had me stumped. It bugged me. I went home and started reading everything I could about Holmes, never dreaming there was such an enormous bibliography.[…]””

“Baum is making his first print⟳ appearance anywhere in the current issue⟳ of “The Baker Street Journal,” the “irregular quarterly” of Sherlock Holmes-iana.”

“(Sherlock Holmes-iana) Brend, Gavin. MY DEAR HOLMES, A STUDY⟳ IN SHERLOCK.”

“Aware of how bound up with movie mythology and the collective pop-unconscious KONG is, he indulges in a couple of sly in-jokes: An offhanded reference to Fay Wray, the first girl in the hairy paw (she's unavailable to step into Denham's epic because she's working on another picture) to a cage in Englehorn's hold⟳ labeled "Sumatran Rat Monkey," a dual nod to Jackson's own⟳ scrappy DEAD ALIVE and the outer fringes of Sherlock Holmes-iana.”

“While listening to advice about not changing this genre, she deliberately read⟳ Lord Donegal’s manuscript on Sherlock Holmes-iana and was surprised at the pleasure she derived from it.”

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