Sherlock Holmes-iana

“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.[…]”

1975 August 22, Mary Stanyan, “The new Sherlock Holmes”, in San Francisco Examiner, 111th year, number 62, page 23, column 1

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

1979 April 1, Al Cartwright, “Delaware”, in Sunday News Journal, volume 5, number 13, Wilmington, Del., page F-8, column 6

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

1994 December 13, R.H.Smith, “GREYHAVENS BOOKS - Sale List 14”, in rec.arts.books.marketplace (Usenet)

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.

2005, “King Kong Reviews”, in TV Guide, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2023

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.

2022, Makhosazana Xaba, “‘She Certainly Couldn’t Be Conventional If She Tried’: Noni Jabavu, the Editor of The New Strand Magazine in London”, in Bhekizizwe Peterson, Khwezi Mkhize, Makhosazana Xaba, editors, Foundational African Writers: Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyembezi and Es’kia Mphahlele, Wits University Press, →ISBN, part III (In the Eye of the Short Century: Diaspora and Pan-Africanism Reconsidered), page 366