Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Marleybone – Sherlock Bones

Sherlock Bones – Sherlock Holmes
http://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Sherlock_Bones#ixzz7ZawULxVf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes

He’s the head detective in Marleybone working with Scotland Yard to rid the city of the O’Leary Gang. He helps you throughout your time in Marleybone finding out how to stop the O’Leary Gang and master criminal, Meowiarty, when he escapes from Newgate Prison. Mr Bones lives at 221B Barker St.

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a “consulting detective” in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard.

First appearing in print in 1887’s A Study in Scarlet, the character’s popularity became widespread with the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine, beginning with “A Scandal in Bohemia” in 1891; additional tales appeared from then until 1927, eventually totaling four novels and 56 short stories. All but one are set in the Victorian or Edwardian eras, between about 1880 and 1914. Most are narrated by the character of Holmes’s friend and biographer Dr. John H. Watson, who usually accompanies Holmes during his investigations and often shares quarters with him at the address of 221B Baker Street, London, where many of the stories begin.

This is the fifty-seventh article chronicling the #W101PopCulture references starting in Wizard City and the fourteenth Marleybone article. The current list of all the (known) Marleybone references are located here.

Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.

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