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The word that I found most fitting to these conditions is abstruse from http://wordnet-online.freedicts.com/definition?word=abstruse:

From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abstruse nother definition is:

Recondite would be a very good alternative, with nearly identical meaning from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/recondite:

I found this entertaining article at http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/abstruse, which I think captures the meaning very well, and I’ll quote it fully:

The character Dr. Gregory House, of the U.S. television program House, (hat tip to Mari-Lou A) has a Holmes-like pit-bull tenacity (with all the same scariness to some) for resolving deadly afflictions. He was described in an article of the Los Angeles Times this way:

The word that I found most fitting to these conditions is abstruse (Wordnet Dictionary):

Another definition (Dictionary.com):

Recondite (Dictionary.com) would be a very good alternative, with nearly identical meaning:

I found this entertaining article (Vocbulary.com), which I think captures the meaning very well, and I’ll quote it fully:

The character Dr. Gregory House, of the U.S. television program House, (hat tip to Mari-Lou A) has a Holmes-like pit-bull tenacity (with all the same scariness to some) for resolving deadly afflictions. He was described in an article of the Los Angeles Times (Patt Morrison, July 20, 2012) this way:

The word that I found most fitting to these conditions is abstruse:

Another definition is:

Recondite would be a very good alternative, with nearly identical meaning:

I found this entertaining article, which I think captures the meaning very well, and I’ll quote it fully:

The word that I found most fitting to these conditions is abstruse from http://wordnet-online.freedicts.com/definition?word=abstruse:

From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abstruse nother definition is:

Recondite would be a very good alternative, with nearly identical meaning from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/recondite:

I found this entertaining article at http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/abstruse, which I think captures the meaning very well, and I’ll quote it fully:

“Oh, the mystery!” he answered, coming back with a start to the realities of life. “Well, it would be absurd to deny that the case is a very abstruse and complicated one, but I can promise you that I will look into the matter and let you know any points which may strike me.” “Do you see any clue?” “You have furnished me with seven, but, of course, I must test them before I can pronounce upon their value.” “You suspect some one?” “I suspect myself.” “What!” “Of coming to conclusions too rapidly.”

“Oh, the mystery!” he answered, coming back with a start to the realities of life. “Well, it would be absurd to deny that the case is a very abstruse and complicated one, but I can promise you that I will look into the matter and let you know any points which may strike me.”

“Do you see any clue?”

“You have furnished me with seven, but, of course, I must test them before I can pronounce upon their value.”

“You suspect some one?”

“I suspect myself.”

“What!”

“Of coming to conclusions too rapidly.”