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    Wilkie Collins was a great writer, he was able to make the reader come up with marvellous stories and images in their minds. Collins uses both inductive and deductive detection in his novel, The Moonstone. Sergeant Cuff, a character in the novel, is the best example of someone who used inductive detection. Sergeant Cuff is a key player for he paved the way for future detectives such as Sherlock holmes. In the Novel, Cuff was an intelligent man, a man who looked only at the facts. He is portrayed…

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    e to diagnose and treat the contagion of criminality as easily as his medical sidekick, Watson, can treat the physical body. It is worth recalling that Conan Doyle, a physician himself, based Holmes upon his own teacher, Joseph Bell (1837-1911) of the University of Edinburgh. Bell practiced a kind of science of deduction of his own. He was renowned for his ability to make correct medical diagnoses based on the mere observation of superficial external signs. In an interview in the Bookman in May…

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    shown is by Sherlock Holmes. Specifically, The Hound of the Baskervilles, was influenced by Conan Doyle 's family and his real life experience. This essay relates the essence of Sherlock Holmes and the events shaped the narration and characters. In the tale about the Baskervilles’ hound, , Sherlock Holmes is the hero and main character. Holmes’ personality shows that he is an observant and intelligent detective. Holmes reveals his power to match intellect with immediate action. Holmes is…

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    British culture. Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is one of the most popular detective…

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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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    Conan Doyle Arthur Doyle wrote over 60 short stories about the notable character Sherlock Holmes, and nearly 200 novels, short stories, poems, historical book and pamphlets. Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born, May 22, 1859 by the parents of Charles and Mary Doyle. Doyle’s father was a drunk and Doyle’s mother, Mary was a passionate reader and story teller, as he says, “In my early childhood, as far as I can remember anything at all, the vivid stories she would tell me stand out so clearly…

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    bullied and picked on him. To overcome this however, Doyle used his young audience of colleagues to practice telling stories and capturing the attention and manipulating emotion of others. He also attended Stonyhurst College for an additional five years,…

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    while, I admired one peculiar detective named Sherlock Holmes. I was hooked. Needless to say, after reading all…

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    Holmes’ stories kept everyone wondering if he was a real person, and, in a way, he was. Sherlock Holmes was based off of Joseph Bell, who was Doyle’s professor. Doyle wrote numerous stories about Holmes and his adventures as a detective that many people loved. Unfortunately, on July 7, 1930, Doyle passed away from a heart attack in Crowborough, United…

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    In October 1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes - the world’s first consulting detective. In his lifetime, the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published four novels and five volumes of short stories about the detective. Holmes’s cases involve a range of …. from cracking codes to preventing political scandal and international turmoil. He apprehends the common thief and aspires to defeat Europe’s most dangerous criminal mastermind. Although each case is unique, they can be…

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