And now for another fictional character who has appealed across generations, Sherlock Holmes has shown up in films some 200 times at last count, and this weekend he's on the case again.

"I can't bear books about Sherlock Holmes," Ronald Knox said. He was wearily rejecting a request from a publisher 30 years after he had written an essay called "Studies in the Literature of ...

A Manhattan divorce lawyer took a page right out of Sherlock Holmes in court Wednesday, when he pulled out a large magnifying glass and used it to blow a hole in his opponent’s case.

Kids' books: Sherlock Holmes lives on in several youth books. Among them is British author Andrew Lane's new series — "Sherlock Holmes: The Legend Begins " — that explores Holmes' teenage years.

The Royal Mint has designed a new Sherlock Holmes 50p coin which features lettering so small it requires a magnifying glass to read it.

Let’s start with evidence using Holmes’ magnifying glass to look at explicit knowing and what I call the “ DNA ” of our psychological being.

A deerstalker hat similar to the one that Sherlock Holmes is known to wear sits in a display on magnifying glasses at J.C. Penney Optical in Flagstaff.

The Search icon with the magnifying glass seems so familiar nowadays: almost every interface, every computer or web browser, and mobile device have it. However, have you ever thought of why and how it ...

The Museum of London show on Sherlock Holmes, which opens on Oct. 17 after two years of preparation, acknowledges the conundrum with its title, "The Man Who Never Lived and Will Never Die".

Sherlock Holmes does the same. The magnifying glass has become so closely associated with Holmes that it is, essentially, a part of him.