A Study in Scarlet

Vivian Darkbloom wrote “Holmes is Where the Heart is” to delve into the unusual behaviors in Sherlock and Helen. However, the fault in her arguments are the assumptions and false information that back up her assertions. Darkbloom assumes that Helen is relevant to the story. She takes advantage of the lack of information and attempts to correlate the missing pieces of the miscellaneous characters together in disarray. The surviving step daughter is simply the catalyst that puts the story and the…

A detective – the one who solves the mystery of a crime, clever, wise, and knowledgeable. Yet detectives are not always the obvious type, as is exemplified by a both a novel and a series of short stories. In G. K. Chesterton’s Favorite Father Brown Stories, the wise detective is not a usual detective. As implied by his name, Father Brown was an English village priest in the 19th or 20th century, who ended up being the one to solve or lead another to solving a crime or finding the criminal.…

A dejected and love struck movie projectionist dreams his way into the film world and in doing so reflects the audiences escapist tendencies, this is the crux of Buster Keaton’s 1924 silent comedy film Sherlock Jr. The film is a great example of silent era comedy films, of which Keaton was a prolific figure. Sherlock Jr. is just one of many that he starred in and directed throughout the first part of the twentieth century. Many times Keaton is contrasted with another great slapstick comedy…

In making the Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle created a hero modern to the times. Holmes, an independent detective, tackles many of his cases with his companion John H. Watson, who, in contrast to heros today, could be considered Holmes’ side kick. Though Holmes does not have the ability to fly or read minds, he has an extrodinary capability in solving crimes with evidence lost on others. In A Case of Identity, Watson states, “You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite…

Why would Sherlock Holmes, a man who “loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul” (Doyle 1) still be absorbed in solving crimes, studying clues, and observing society? As the beliefs and morals of society changed over the centuries, the depiction of Sherlock Holmes’s character was continuously modified. Arthur Conan Doyle and Guy Ritchie both captured Holmes’s developing character by building on the Victorian morals of order and class and contrasting them with twenty-first…

The Red-Headed League only pays “real bright, fiery red” (Paragraph 55) haired people to copy the Encyclopedia Britannica. This eccentric requirement shows up in “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Red-Headed League,” a story in a book written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This story is set in London, England. The main characters are detective Sherlock Holmes, his friend Watson, and Mr. Wilson. The Red-Headed League Mr. Wilson works in suddenly closes, so he sets out to find Sherlock Holmes.…

Oliver Wendell Holmes was a prominent figure in the literary and philosophical circles of his era. He was born on August 29, 1809 in Cambridge Massachusetts. He attended Harvard College after years of private schooling. It was at Harvard where he started to write and translate poetry. After he graduated he began to publish his works, while he was studying to law. One of his most famous works, “Old Ironsides” came in 1830. In 1831 Holmes quit law school to get a medical degree, and went to Europe…

In each state, in each city, walks a revolutionary individual, so keen, so intelligent, and aware of the current state of the universe that the world I walk through will be so different by the next decade, the only thing I will recognize is the faces of those who changed it. Indeed I cannot be classified as dull, but a title of genius will not be on my resume. I might just happen to know those faces, which could change the world. Just as John Watson is, I am thoroughly intrigued by this world…

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been adapted and reworked numerous times across many traditional mediums such books, films and television. BBC’s Sherlock is a recent modernized TV adaptation which was critically acclaimed for its writing and direction and nominated for many highly-regarded awards such as BAFTAs and Golden Globes. Like many shows with prominent fandoms (E.g. Supernatural, Doctor Who), Sherlock was subject to a high production of fan activity based on the show and its…

“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.” (Doyle 254). Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective character created by a Scottish author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on May 22, 1859. Sherlock Holmes’s detective stories are some of the best detective stories ever written. His comics has always blown people's mind. However Sherlock Holmes is not the first fictional detective, the fame he reached after his literary birth dwarfed his fictional predecessors and…