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    American Doyle Hero

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    paper, the reader will learn about the famous author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. As well as, his inspirations and the beginning of his amazing career. Following this information they will learn about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s first novels and his most famous works. Along this list of facts, readers will learn about what critics believe of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s work. Also, what he will be remembered for in his legacy. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is one of the most famous British authors and will be…

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    John Watson Sparknotes

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    Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick John Watson have been around for more than a 125 years, and yet from the Victorian age to the present they have remained popular culture figures. It is unlikely that you will come across someone from a first world country that has not heard of the legendary duo. Naturally, this begs the question of why they have endured time so effectively. After over a century the name Sherlock Holmes still brings to one’s mind images of a deerstalker and magnifying glass;…

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    Sherlock Holmes and his partner, John Watson, stolled up the lane and stopped at a door marked 21C, which was shaded by an old magnolia tree. “I think this place looks like the one.” said Watson to Sherlock. “Hmm, I think this place looks like a ruddy shack,” says Sherlock. “I don’t think anyone let alone the president of the biggest industry in London would live here.” Sherlock knocked on the door and got no answer. “I think this is a time for non formalities.” pronounced Sherlock and then he…

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    Forensic Science History

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    “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes”, a famous quote from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes series; the series that inspired hundreds and thousands of curious readers to make the fictional concept of solving a crime using powerful substances into a real and tangible science that can be applied in real life. This elaborate discipline is called forensic science, and has become a large part of law enforcement and due process of criminal…

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    The detective fiction novel, The Hounds of Baskerville by Arthur Conan Doyle, features the well-known Sherlock Holmes and his trusty partner, John Watson. The two are settled in many stories, books, and television shows but in this instance, they are in a detective novel. The novel, narrated by John Watson, tells a detective journey in which townsman Charles Baskerville is supposed to be killed by a hound that is left by the curse of Hugo Baskerville. Sherlock is called upon by the nephew of Sir…

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    Holmes believed that doctors make the best criminals, because of one case in particular. That case was the one of Miss Helen Stones. Holmes must have wondered about all of the effort and planning that Helens step father put into carrying out his evil plan. Why he wanted to murder his step daughters was easy to understand. There mother died and they recieved her money, when they got married. But he was not going to let that happen. He wanted their money. Helen told the story of her…

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    Amid the lapse of both Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock exploits moral tolerances in pursuit of the greater good. Throughout the progression of novel and film, both Ritchie and Doyle utilize Sherlock’s path of destruction to emphasize a prevailing cataclysmic culture and acclimation to violence over time throughout America. Without the use of excessive force, Doyle’s rendition of Sherlock Holmes has no…

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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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    Holmes Breaking the Law?! In the story “The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton” (1904) by Sir Arthur Canon Doyle, the author shows us that Sherlock Holmes breaks the law for the sake of helping and protecting the upper class people, leaving the lower class people behind and using them to get threw the case he’s dealing with. We can all agree that he’s wrong but at the same time its smart of the way he does it. Holmes breaks the law by tricking Milvertons’ maid in order to get information…

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    Directly from 221B Baker Street in London, England comes Sherlock Homes, a world famous detective who, with his partner Dr. John Watson, tackles many mystery cases. One case the duo tackles is The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and became so popular, a film directed by David Attwood appeared in 2002 under the same name. . The two works of art tell the same exact story, but the movie differs vastly in the plot, characters, and many other aspects. The…

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