Sherlock Holmes, a pipe smoker possessed of no little brilliance. (His most famous monograph examined, from a detective's point of view, the ash types of various tobaccos.) In addition to tobacco ...

Now, Sherlock Holmes ... trademark Meerschaum pipe - on which Holmes would puff while pondering the intricacies of his latest case - has succumbed to the anti-smoking campaigners.

With his long slender features visible under a deerstalker hat and a smoking pipe in hand, actor Basil Rathbone is as synonymous with Sherlock Holmes as ... the defining face of a literary legend ...

In the space usually occupied by a bison skull (in front of which ... Doyle noted how Holmes “stored his pipe tobacco in the toe of a Persian slipper”. In the modern Sherlock, the pipe tobacco ...

Deep in an underground cavern at the University of Minnesota lies the world's largest collection of Holmes memorabilia — a cache sure to expand with material from the new "Sherlock Holmes" movie ...

Sherlock Holmes is to be ... novels and 56 short stories featuring the pipe-smoking Victorian detective. Conan Doyle famously attempted to kill Holmes off but was eventually forced by public ...