Hardly any fictional character has crashed into pop culture the way Sherlock Holmes has. He is everywhere. Sir Arthur Conan ...

It is extremely unusual for a literary character to remain popular for more than a century. But Sherlock Holmes is no ordinary character. Ever since the eccentric, pipe-smoking detective first ...

SHERLOCK Holmes still exerts a strange fascination a century after his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, pensioned him off to the countryside to keep bees. There have been biographies, pastiche novels ...

Most of ‘A Sherlock Carol’ is just a Holmes story made from parts of other ones. The Dickens-y bits are generic festiveness and some ghosts, and there aren’t really enough of either.

Sherlock Holmes: The Exhibition runs through April 2 ($12 adults, $8 kids over 5). More information here. If, after seeing the exhibition at the History Center, you need more Holmes, ...

“A Sherlock Carol,” at Westport Country Playhouse for eight performances Dec. 17-22, brings together two of the most popular characters in literary history.