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    Private William Edgar Holmes VC (26 June 1895 − 9 October 1918) was a British Army soldier and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest...
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  • of World War I Sir William Holmes (British Army officer) (1892–1969), British Lieutenant General of World War II William Edgar Holmes (1895–1918), English...
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  • I William Holmes (British general), British Army officer of WWI and WWII William Edgar Holmes (1895–1918), English soldier and VC recipient William Holmes...
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  • Barton) Holmes, but the name of his father, railroad worker Carl Estes, was left blank on his birth certificate. Mary had married Edgar Harvey Holmes, who...
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  • The Enola Holmes Mysteries is a young adult fiction series of detective novels by American author Nancy Springer, starring Enola Holmes as the 14-year-old...
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    the London slavey. In the first Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, Dr. Watson compares Holmes to C. Auguste Dupin, Edgar Allan Poe's fictional detective...
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  • Frederick William Holmes British Army 1914 First World War Le Cateau Joel Holmes British Army 1857 Indian Mutiny Lucknow William Edgar Holmes British Army...
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    Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his...
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    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (/hoʊmz/; August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the...
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    C. Auguste Dupin (category Edgar Allan Poe)
    Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin [oɡyst dypɛ̃] is a fictional character created by Edgar Allan Poe. Dupin made his first appearance in Poe's 1841 short story "The...
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    The Murders in the Rue Morgue (category Short stories by Edgar Allan Poe)
    Detective Model: Charles S. Peirce and Edgar Allan Poe", in Umberto Eco; Thomas Sebeok (eds.), The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce, Bloomington, IN: History...
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    Taylor Holmes (May 16, 1878 – September 30, 1959) was an American actor who appeared in over 100 Broadway plays in his five-decade career. However, he...
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    is a fictional character in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Along with Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson first appeared in the novel A...
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    Sherlock Holmes is a four-act play by William Gillette and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, based on Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes. After three previews...
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  • great-great-grandson of William Holmes à Court, 2nd Baron Heytesbury, and a grand-nephew of William Frederick Holmes à Court, 3rd Baron Heytesbury, Holmes à Court was...
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    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892. It contains...
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  • Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes instead of Poe's C. Auguste Dupin. Holmes was played by veteran stage actor William Kolle, star of the Venetian Gardens...
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    Aoyama The Gentleman Burglar (B&W., US, 1908) with William Ranows (Lupin) Arsène Lupin contra Sherlock Holmes (B&W., Germany, 1910) with Paul Otto (Lupin) Arsène...
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  • Richard Lancelyn Green (category Sherlock Holmes scholars)
    Special Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America during 1984. Lancelyn Green also published other books on his own. The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes (1983)...
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    Edgar Holmes Adams (April 7, 1868 – May 5, 1940) was an American competition diver and swimmer, numismatic scholar, author, coin collector and dealer....
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    A Scandal in Bohemia (category Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle)
    fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It is the first of the 56 Holmes short stories written by Doyle and the first of 38 Sherlock Holmes works illustrated by...
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  • Sherlock Holmes has long been a popular character for pastiche, Holmes-related work by authors and creators other than Arthur Conan Doyle. Their works...
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    romantic film Titanic (1997), Culverton Smith in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Warren Westridge in creature feature film Anaconda (1997), Dr. Allen Chamberlain...
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    The Baker Street Irregulars (category Sherlock Holmes)
    Mattias (2018). From Holmes to Sherlock. Mysterious Press. pp. 206–207. ISBN 978-0-8021-2789-1. Lellenberg, Jon (2015). "Edgar W. Smith: Prolegomena...
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  • 3:15 "Off My Cloud" - (Wally Holmes) 4:16 "All Goin' Down Together" - (Michael Jarrett) 2:51 "Rock the Boat" - (Wally Holmes) 3:22 "Freedom for the Stallion"...
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    A Study in Scarlet (category Sherlock Holmes novels by Arthur Conan Doyle)
    Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in English literature. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes,...
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    Arthur Conan Doyle (category Sherlock Holmes)
    Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories...
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    Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). His most famous role was that of Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films made between 1939 and 1946 and in a radio series...
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    California, Berkeley. After a friend told him that "William White" was too common a name, he used "H. H. Holmes" to write and review mysteries and "Anthony Boucher"...
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    Leslie S. Klinger (category Sherlock Holmes scholars)
    definitive exegesis of Holmes and his times," the book won an Edgar Award. He also edited the scholarly ten-volume Sherlock Holmes Reference Library, a...
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