Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Nhau pfupi 56 dzaConan Doyle nemabhuku mana anozivikanwa se"canon" nevanofarira Holmes. Nyanzvi dzokutanga dzezvinyorwa zvacho dzaisanganisira Ronald Knox wokuBritain naChristopher Morley wokuNew York. Morley akatanga The Baker Street Irregulars - sangano rokutanga rakatsaurirwa kuHolmes canon - muna 1934. Mutambo weSherlockian (unozivikanwawo semutambo weHolmesian, Mutambo Mukuru, kana kuti Mutambo chete) unoedza kugadzirisa zvisiri izvo uye kujekesa mashoko pamusoro paHolmes naWatson kubva mubhuku. Mutambo, uyo unobata Holmes naWatson sevanhu chaivo (uye Conan Doyle semunyori wemabhuku aWatson), unobatanidza nhoroondo nezvikamu zvenhau kuti vagadzire nhoroondo dzehupenyu uye kumwe kuongorora kwedzidzo kwezvikamu izvi. Ronald Knox anonzi ndiye akagadzira Mutambo wacho. Chimwe chinhu chakaongororwa muMutambo wacho izuva rokuberekwa kwaHolmes. Kutevedzana kwenguva kwenyaya dzacho kwakaoma zvikuru, nenyaya dzakawanda dzisina misi uye dzimwe dzakawanda dzine dzinopesana. Morley naWilliam Baring-Gould (munyori weSherlock Holmes weBaker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective) vanoti mutikitivha akaberekwa musi wa6 Ndira 1854, gore iri rinobva pane chirevo mu "His Last Bow" kuti aive nemakore makumi matanhatu ekuberekwa muna 1914, nepo zuva chairo rinobva mukufungidzira kwakakura, kusiri-kwecanonical. Iri ndiro zuva iro Baker Street Irregulars vanoshanda kubva, nechirairo chavo chegore negore chinoitwa muna January woga woga. Laurie R. King akafungidzirawo nezvomusi wokuzvarwa kwaHolmes. Panzvimbo pezvo anotaura kuti mashoko ari mu"The Adventure of the Gloria Scott" (nyaya isina musi chaiwo womukati) anoratidza kuti Holmes akapedza gore rake rechipiri (uye rokupedzisira) reyunivhesiti muna 1880 kana 1885. Kana akatanga kuyunivhesiti pazera remakore 17, gore rake rokuberekwa raigona kuva gare gare sa1868. Utano hwepfungwa hwaHolmes hwave huri nyaya dzokuongorora muMutambo. Pakusangana kwavo kwokutanga, mu A Study in Scarlet, mutikitivha anoyambira Watson kuti anowana "munzvimbo dzekuparadza dzimwe nguva" uye haavhure "muromo wake kwemazuva ekupedzisira". Leslie S. Klinger akataura kuti Holmes anoratidzira zviratidzo zvechirwere chebipolar, ne...  Mubvunzo: Chii chinozivikanwa sechinyorwa?
Nhau pfupi 56 dzaConan Doyle nemabhuku mana