- Holmes: Quotes and other writings (from the Canon, by Doyle, by others), illustrations for the Canon (Sidney Paget, Frederic Dorr Steele, Richard Gutschmidt, Frank Wiles, Alec Ball), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Granada & The Secret of Sherlock Holmes, BBC Sherlock, Basil Rathbone films, Sherlock Holmes (1954 TV series), Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes (I & II), Peter Cushing TV series & The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), Sherlock Holmes (1922), Without a Clue, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002), The Case of the Silk Stocking, Arthur Wontner films, The Great Mouse Detective, BBC Radio Holmes, Elementary, William Gillette, Leslie Bricusse’s musical, The Sherlock Holmes Museum & assorted 221b
- Things that are not Sherlock Holmes: A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Blackadder, Black Books, Brideshead Revisited, Cabin Pressure, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Horrible Histories, The IT Crowd, Jeeves and Wooster, Lost, Monty Python, Peep Show, QI, Raffles, Withnail and I
- Fine gents: Tom Baker, John Barrymore, Jeremy Brett, Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Cushing, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Michael Emerson, Stephen Fry, Mark Gatiss, Stephen Hawking, Harry Houdini, Buster Keaton, David Mitchell, Dylan Moran, Vincent Price, T. S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, Arthur Wellesley, Oscar Wilde, P. G. Wodehouse
- Art: paintings & drawings, photography, typography; Edward Gorey, J. C. Leyendecker, J. M. W. Turner, John Singer Sargent, Beatrix Potter, Tim Walker
- History: WWI, WWII, turn of the century, vintage
- Music: Beethoven, Chopin, Grieg, Paganini, Schubert, The Smiths, The Kinks
- Places: France (Paris, Versailles), England (London, Sussex, Oxford), Scotland, Switzerland, Iceland, Antarctica (The Terra Nova Expedition, Ernest Shackleton), seascapes, mountainscapes
- &co: menswear, books, libraries, interiors, everyday things, quotes, space, science, ships, insects (notably bees and lepidoptera), bats, curiosities and antiques, weapons, bones, taxidermy, violins, maps, winter
