"Holmesish" meaning in English

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          "name": "Sherlock Holmes",
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          "ref": "1964, Books and Bookmen, volume 10, page 71",
          "text": "But can they have accepted Edmund Wilson's verdict that all detective fiction is only Holmesish imitation, and elected to go back to Square One?",
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        {
          "ref": "1978 June 1, John Elkington, “Fuelling the EIA flame”, in New Scientist",
          "text": "The environmental dimensions of energy production and consumption are, in fact, rarely out of the news — although one sometimes needs a Holmesish dedication to ferret out the evidence.",
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          "ref": "1990, Gregory Currie, The Nature of Fiction, Cambridge University Press, page 140",
          "text": "One reply to this is to say that we should count \"Holmes might not have been a detective\" as true just in case each Holmesish individual has a counterpart that is not a detective.",
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        "Resembling or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes."
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          "Sherlock Holmes"
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        {
          "word": "Sherlockish"
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          "word": "Sherlocky"
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          "word": "Sherlock Holmesque"
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        {
          "word": "Sherlock Holmesish"
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        {
          "word": "Sherlock Holmesy"
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          "ref": "1978 June 1, John Elkington, “Fuelling the EIA flame”, in New Scientist",
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    {
      "word": "Sherlock Holmesish"
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