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  2. The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (German: Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war) is a 1937 German mystery comedy film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Hans Albers, Heinz Rühmann and Marieluise Claudius.

  3. The first was William Baring-Gould's 1967 The Annotated Sherlock Holmes. This two-volume set was ordered to fit Baring-Gould's preferred chronology, and was written from a Great Game perspective. The second was 1993's The Oxford Sherlock Holmes (general editor: Owen Dudley Edwards), a nine

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    Tall & Gaunt 1. He measured 6 feet (3STU, 470) or over 6 feet but he was so lean that he seemed even taller. (STUD, 196) 2. He had a tall, gaunt figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. (BOSC, 19) 3. He had a tall, austere figure (HOUN, 1188), a tall lean figure. (VALL, 1577) 4. He was a tal...

    He had that cat-like love of personal cleanliness (HOUN, 2772). He affected a certain quiet primness of dress (MUSG, 1). He usually wear a tweed suit or frock-coat, and occasionally an ulster (STUD, 965). In private, he wear a mouse-coloured dressing-gown (EMPT, 399), a purple one (BLUE, 1) and sometimes a blue one (TWIS, 400). In the country, he h...

    Holmes smoked cigars, cigarettes, and of course, pipes. Three specific pipes are mentioned: 1. Most often, he smoked his old black pipe (CREE, 9), the old and oily black clay pipe (IDEN, 205) when in meditative mood (SOLI, 137). 2. He smoked occasionally an old briar-root pipe. (SIGN, 63) 3. He smoked a cherrywood in a disputatious mood. (COPP, 4) ...

    Sherlock Holmes was a man who seldom took exercise for exercise's sake. Few men were capable of greater muscular effort, and he was undoubtedly one of the finest boxers of his weight; but he looked upon aimless bodily exertion as a waste of energy, and he seldom bestirred himself save where there was some professional object to be served. Then he w...

    Watson described him as an automaton, a calculating machine with something positively inhuman in him (SIGN). Sometimes with a face of that Red Indian composure which had made so many regard him as a machine rather than a man (CROO, NAVA). He loved above all things precision and concentration of thought (SOLI). Watson often refers to his restlessnes...

    Philosophy

    Sherlock Holmes quotes about Fate: 1. Why does Fate play such tricks with poor helpless worms? (BOSC, 623) 2. The ways of Fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest. (VEIL, 274) 3. Is not all life pathetic and futile? We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow - misery. (RETI, 17) 4. What is the meaning of it, Watson? What object is served by this circle of misery and viole...

    Religion

    1. Holmes agreed with anti-christian ideas of Winwood Reade when he recommend to read the Martyrdom of Man (SIGN, 338). 2. He agreed with Richter quoting the writer: the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness. (SIGN, 1381) 3. He refused to believe in supernatural. (DEVI, HOUN, SUSS) 4. He read and quoted Darwin. (STUD, 850) 5. He said: There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reas...

  4. Aug 11, 2011 · The man who was Sherlock Holmes. by. Hardwick, Michael, 1924-; Hardwick, Mollie, joint author. Publication date. 1964. Topics. Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930, Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) Publisher. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday.

  5. Sep 24, 2023 · A review of the film 'The Man who was Sherlock Holmes' starring Hans Albers and Heinz Rühmann-Merchandise:https://teespring.com/stores/thebritisher Twitter:h...

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