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“Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero” -Amit Kalantri. A hero is someone whose ideals are able to transcend the barriers of time itself, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s enigmatic brainchild Sherlock Holmes manages to get his own messages across by undertaking of a series of spectacular escapades. In Red-Headed League, he prevents London’s youngest and most dangerous fugitive from stealing nearly 30,000 napoleons of French gold from right out under the bank. Speckled Band tells the tale of Holmes stopping a deranged doctor who had been trained in India from using a poisonous viper to kill his niece. Finally, Holmes deals with royalty itself when he prevents the mysterious Irene

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