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Sherlock Holmes
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Sherlock Holmes 

A fictional private detective, the hero of short stories and novels by A. Conan Doyle, who chose the surname in honor of the American writer O. W. Holmes. The name “Sherlock” in Russian has acquired the connotation of a common noun.



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