Mycroft Holmes

Television has produced numerous shows that do not paint a clear or accurate picture of what a Forensic Scientist job entails. Criminal shows exaggerate the techniques and fail to note the importance of the abilities of Forensic Scientist and Crime Scene Investigators. A reported 100 million people watch criminal television shows weekly, who form a perception often skewed and fictional in regarding the real world of Forensics. Sorenson Forensics Executive Director Tim Kupferschmid…

Imagine it’s the start of WW2 and you were given a task of decoding an ever changing, impossible to crack, nazi code called the enigma. This very task was what was assigned to many of Britain's greatest minds among them was a man named Alan Turing. In short Alan was smart but socially awkward and found himself working alone even though he is apart of the team. Throughout his work during the WWII era he conducted extensive research using major mathematical concepts in order to further his work on…

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time One day Christopher Boone saw a dead dog, lying on the lawn. It was Mrs. Shears’ dog called Wellington and somebody killed it with a garden fork. The boy loved dogs and he decided to find out who was a murderer and to write a detective story about his investigation. Christopher started asking his neighbors about what had happened to Wellington. But when his father learned what Christopher was doing he was very angry and he forbade his son…

Set in the late 1800’s during industrial Victorian London The Limehouse Golem combines the classic idea of a detective murder mystery with a ‘rags to riches’ coming of age story with a deadly ending. Based off of the novel Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem by Peter Ackroyd (1994) the audience follows rising Inspector John Kildare in his search for the serial murderer dubbed the Limehouse Golem and his interactions with former music hall star Elizabeth Cree as she awaits prosecution for the death…

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish writer, more drown into novels, that became famous with his “Treasure Island” (1883) and “The Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” (1886). He was born in the capital of Scotland Edinburgh. His father was the notable engineer Thomas Stevenson. He had very over protected parents that didn’t allow him to leave his house much, due to his chronic bronchial disease. It was lying in bed that he developed his artist side, and came up with some of his…

The Blood Pit Kate Ellis is a crime fiction writer known for her ability to incorporate medieval history and archaeology in her crime and mystery novels. The historical facts used to illustrate Kate’s novels enrich its plots providing readers not only with the excitement of solving mysteries but also with interesting facts about history of the medieval times. The Wesley Peterson series is an example of her mystery and history blend, it is an exciting series of eighteen crime novels in which she…

Joe Golem Occult Detective is a standalone novel by Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola. The first novel in the occult detective series of novels Joe Golem: Occult Detective otherwise known as Rat Catcher was first published 2015. The series of comic books is an adaptation of the story of Joe Golem from the novel Joe Golem and the Drowning City. Dave Palumbo the Spectrum award-winning painter did the covers while the graphics are by Patric Reynolds. The new series is set in a period before the…

as BBC’s Sherlock, the man that is Sherlock Holmes has been around for centuries. While there may be various modern Sherlock Holmes’, there is one that is far superior to the rest, one that takes on the characteristics of the original Sherlock Holmes. This Sherlock Holmes was well represented in these movies and was accurate to the stories that I’ve read. The best Sherlock Holmes I’ve seen is the one portrayed in the 2009 movie adaptation “Sherlock Holmes”, with Robert Downey Jr. This Sherlock…

In this essay, the characterization of two characters, Harry Potter in “Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone” and Sherlock Holmes in “The Boscombe Valley Mystery” are the two heroes which would be analyzed. Their characterization would be discussed in two ways. Firstly, how their appearance presented. Secondly, how their actions, which the speech and thought are included, help to present the image of the heroic character. In my point of view, hero is a person who is outstanding with high…

1. Introduction One of Edgar Allen Poe's most famous short stories is "The Tell-Tale Heart", which was first published in 1843. The story is told by an unnamed narrator, who describes in a very detailed way the murder he committed. His victim is the old man he lives with/ he is living with. The narrator's only and not very justifiable reason for his deed is that he is afraid of the old man's vulture eye and that in order to get rid of his fear he has to kill the old man. After his deed is done,…