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    Arthur Conan Doyle discloses the conundrum of Helen Stoner’s inquiry. In the year 1883 of April, Helen Stoner visits Sherlock Holmes as she is in trepidation of her impending wedding. Helen questions her twin sister, Julia’s death as she starts hearing the low whistles at night her sister claimed to her as well. The urgency of Helen Stoner awakens Holmes and Dr. Watson. Intensively, Holmes was hearkening to Helen Stoner’s account as he transpired to be intrigued by the case. In one residence,…

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    characters withing the story, primarily Sherlock Holmes. Firstly, Sherlock Holmes is crafted to be almost an anti-hero as he…

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    hundreds of books made about Sherlock and his trusty sidekick Watson, the specific one focused on is, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band.” In this story, a damsel in distress seeks the aid of Sherlock Holmes because her sister has been killed and she fears for her own life. Once Hellen finishes her side of the story and leaves, the mastermind behind the killing, Dr. Roylott, strolls into the office and warns Sherlock not to mess with his step-daughter. Of course, Sherlock ignores this gesture…

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    of Sherlock It’s an eventful day on July 25, 2010; The World Cup was over with England being eliminated and Spain won the final game against the Netherlands, WikiLeaks releases over 90,000 internal logs of the US Military to a variety of news sources, and British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) premiered the long anticipated A Study in Pink, the first episode of Sherlock. The first episode is a television adaptation of A Study in Scarlet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s first short story of Sherlock…

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    between Sherlock Holmes, a consulting detective, and John Watson, a physician. The journey begins with Helen Stoner, a future bride to be, telling her tragic story of her sister’s unsolved mysterious death. The events that had led up to her sister’s death had begun for her, so she made her way into the apartment of Holmes and Watson, begging them to help her. Holmes and Watson venture out to the home of Roylotts of Stoke Moran to investigate the case. In the short story, Sherlock Holmes…

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    Cumberbatchers and Holmes fans have held their breaths for quite a while. Everyone was unsure if the much loved adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel will come back for a fourth run. True enough, Benedict Cumberbatch made sure he made time for Sherlock season 4 regardless of his busy schedule filming Doctor Strange. While many wonder what kind of adventures await the detective, show runners have teased three words that can ultimately spell out the fate of Sherlock season 4. During the…

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    affect the telling of the story? In Sherlock original story, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, shows that Sherlock Holmes has no affection towards woman or men and he doesn’t see himself in a relationship. The only affection he shows to have is towards Mrs. Hudson. However, In the BBC TV series Sherlock does appear to have little emotions towards a woman, Irene Adler, at the end of A Scandal in Bohemia. The viewers and/or readers can see that even though Sherlock had feelings towards Irene it had no…

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    Sherlock Holmes was not guilty for the accidental death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott. A multitude of examples support this claim. First, Sherlock Holmes protected himself from a poisonous snake. Holmes was not just going to await to be bitten by a snake and perish miserably. A second thought is that Sherlock Holmes had not a clue of where Dr. Roylott was located in the chamber adjacent to the one he held a secretive stakeout inside of. Finally, the audience can agree that Dr. Roylott should have been…

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    writings of Sherlock Holmes, is the nature of the language Doyle uses to describe the tale he is telling. The heavy prose makes it easy for a reader to get lost if they are not diligent readers. • One of Doyle’s greatest accomplishments in the stories is the manner by which he reveals the secret to the mystery. In order to keep readers interested, he doesn’t reveal the secret to the murder halfway through the story when it might be possible to understand, but at the end, when Holmes explains his…

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    that Conan Doyle wrote, Holmes tells Watson: “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.” Then, the idea of the brain attic is not actually new, because this quote was published in 1891. The brain attic is not a very common idea, it is not usual to come across those words neither in literature nor in television, nevertheless, it is one of the most special characteristics of Sherlock Holmes. That is the reason…

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