The Tiger of San Pedro is a jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 song, by John LaBarbera

John LaBarbera

John LaBarbera is a trumpet player and arranger who worked with the Buddy Rich Orchestra during the late 1960s.Born in Mount Morris, New York, he has performed and written with many big bands...

. This song was made popular by trombonist Bill Watrous

Bill Watrous

William Russell Watrous III is a jazz trombonist. He is perhaps best known by casual fans of jazz music for his rendition of Sammy Nestico's arrangement of the Johnny Mandel ballad "A Time for Love," which he recorded on a 1993 album of the same name...

. It was the title song of the Grammy-nominated Columbia

Columbia Records

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 recording "Tiger of San Pedro" by Watrous' band "The Manhattan Wildlife Refuge." The band also did a self-titled album in 1974 before it disbanded and Watrous moved to Los Angeles.

The song is one of several based on the Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...

 stories. Don Juan Murillo is a deposed dictator from South America

South America

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, formerly known as "The Tiger of San Pedro", living in England

England

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, in the story The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge

The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge

"The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" is one of the fifty-six Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. One of eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow, it is a lengthy, two-part story consisting of "The Singular Experience of Mr...

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