Holmesiana

See also: holmesiana

English

Etymology

From Holmes +‎ -iana.

Noun

Holmesiana pl (plural only)

1. Memorabilia or writings related to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
   • 1944 April 2, Charles Collins, “Bookman’s Holiday”, in Chicago Sunday Tribune, volume CIII, number 14, page 16:

     Rights to further discussion of the March additions to published Holmesiana are now released to Vincent Starrett, who plays a considerable role in all three books.

   • 1985 spring, Jacques Barzun, Wendell Hertig Taylor, “A Catalogue of Crime”, in The Armchair Detective, volume 18, number 2, page 220:

     Here, the veteran scholar of Holmesiana gives us an imaginative account of Watson’s early life—before the meeting with Holmes.

   • 2015, Zach Dundas, The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Mariner Books; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2016, →ISBN, page 301:

     The two Sherlockian special-interest books I would recommend to any casual reader who loves the character are Vincent Starrett’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes—a glimpse of the time of its own creation as much as of Holmesiana itself—and James Edward Holroyd’s happy-go-lucky Baker Street By-ways.

Synonyms

• Sherlock Holmesiana
• Sherlockiana