"Sherlock Holmes-iana" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1957, AB Bookman’s Yearbook, page 297, column 1",
          "text": "Sherlock Holmes-iana. All Exc. Doyle",
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          "ref": "1975 August 22, Mary Stanyan, “The new Sherlock Holmes”, in San Francisco Examiner, 111th year, number 62, page 23, column 1",
          "text": "“There I was, beating this great girl in a barstool game of trivia, until she came up with her Sherlock Holmes-iana,” New Yorker [Nicholas] Meyer said yesterday during a visit to San Francisco. “There she had me stumped. It bugged me. I went home and started reading everything I could about Holmes, never dreaming there was such an enormous bibliography.[…]”",
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          "ref": "1979 April 1, Al Cartwright, “Delaware”, in Sunday News Journal, volume 5, number 13, Wilmington, Del., page F-8, column 6",
          "text": "Baum is making his first print appearance anywhere in the current issue of “The Baker Street Journal,” the “irregular quarterly” of Sherlock Holmes-iana.",
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          "ref": "1994 December 13, R.H.Smith, “GREYHAVENS BOOKS - Sale List 14”, in rec.arts.books.marketplace (Usenet)",
          "text": "(Sherlock Holmes-iana) Brend, Gavin. MY DEAR HOLMES, A STUDY IN SHERLOCK.",
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          "ref": "2005, “King Kong Reviews”, in TV Guide, archived from the original on 2023-04-19",
          "text": "Aware of how bound up with movie mythology and the collective pop-unconscious KONG is, he indulges in a couple of sly in-jokes: An offhanded reference to Fay Wray, the first girl in the hairy paw (she's unavailable to step into Denham's epic because she's working on another picture) to a cage in Englehorn's hold labeled \"Sumatran Rat Monkey,\" a dual nod to Jackson's own scrappy DEAD ALIVE and the outer fringes of Sherlock Holmes-iana.",
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          "ref": "2022, Makhosazana Xaba, “‘She Certainly Couldn’t Be Conventional If She Tried’: Noni Jabavu, the Editor of The New Strand Magazine in London”, in Bhekizizwe Peterson, Khwezi Mkhize, Makhosazana Xaba, editors, Foundational African Writers: Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyembezi and Es’kia Mphahlele, Wits University Press, part III (In the Eye of the Short Century: Diaspora and Pan-Africanism Reconsidered), page 366",
          "text": "While listening to advice about not changing this genre, she deliberately read Lord Donegal’s manuscript on Sherlock Holmes-iana and was surprised at the pleasure she derived from it.",
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