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Pursuing Sherlock Holmes

The influence of Sherlock Holmes can be found throughout the cultural landscape. ...From John Wayne to Macbeth, from the sultry moves of Madonna to the theories of Sigmund Freud, the stories about the greatest of detectives link to just about any subject of situation. -- Jacket copy.

The image of Sherlock Holmes in his rooms at 2218 Baker Street might include
any number of familiar features—the fireplace and armchairs, the Persian slipper
or violin, the jack-knifed correspondence, a gasogene, smoke drifting upward
from a pipe, the table for chemical experiments, the bow window—but a mental
picture of the man himself invariably has him lounging about in a dressing-gown.
The attire of Holmes out-of-doors has become embedded in the popular mind (
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