BBC One detective drama (2010-present), or the main character's first name

Usage examples of sherlock.

Sherlock Holmes and the Famous Five and King Lear and Mickey Mouse and Joseph K and the Venus de Milo and Dick Dastardly and Mutley and Holly Golightly, I was also aware of the John Barleycorn figure turning around to ease my Shadow-flesh through the clutches of a network of story-blades.

Sherlock then shook his head sadly, said yet again how happy he was that Cluny and Clancy had agreed to stay on, take care of the children.

The best Henry Sherlock could do had been more than enough to satisfy Cluny and Clancy.

Conan Doyle, and he could see where the romantic Hoka nature would have gone wild over Sherlock Holmes.

They made her feel as if each one of the Godmothers held a magnifying glass and was subjecting her to a silent, full-spectrum, Sherlock Holmesian examination.

And from that day onward he had been looking for a classic Sherlock Holmesian dog-in-the-night sort of lead, something that would scream Colonel Mustard with the candlestick in the library.

Sherlock Holmes, unleashed such a plethora of pastiches that you could not swing a cat without hitting a lost Watsonian manuscript, a number of excellent works have appeared recently.

Sherlock Holmes sends Doctor Watson to Devon with Sir Henry Baskerville and James Mortimer.

Jones, Sherlock Holmes, Farmer Toowey, and Sir Henry Baskerville looked sympathetically up from the high tea which the landlord was serving them.

Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his sittingroom in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the mantelpiece.

Some guys call them the Baker Street Irregulars, as in Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes refilled his pipe and leaned his short furry form back into his own seat.

My presence near the West End theatres had made me think of him, but it was his former friendship with Sherlock Holmes and his quick thinking under stress that made me believe I could trust trim and that now, when I badly needed a fresh point of view and a level head, he was the one soul to whom I should turn.

The Sherlock and the Watson floated alongside the offloaded actinium waiting for a lighter to arrive and recover the stolen merchandise.

I strolled south on Baker Street I knew the time had come to face up to my decision: I must become a detective, and alone, for there was no Sherlock Holmes to whisper clues into my ear and show me my mistakes.