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Author (Sir) Arthur Conan Doyle wrote his first Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, in year 1886. Transcending literature onto stage and screen, Sherlock Holmes continues to fascinate audiences to this day. The Sherlock Holmes exhibition of The Museum of London titled “The Man Who Never Lived And Will Never Die”, London’s first on the detective since 1951, uses early film, photography and paintings plus original Victorian era artefacts to recreate the atmosphere of Sherlock’s London, and to…

Every hard working detective such as Sherlock Holmes knows how to accumulate clues to a crime. In Arthur Conan Doyle’s mystery story,”The Adventure of the Speckled Band,”Holmes makes his presence in the investigation of a young woman’s death, with suspicion of the stepfather Dr. Roylott. Holmes finds out the motive, discovers a building fault that could conclude to a clue. Additionally, he discovers a mysterious restriction to an everyday furniture item. This unusual restraint to an everyday…

It was but a few years back when I met Sherlock Holmes. In our eighth grade year he was new to my school, he moved from Cambridge to Westminster, here, due to a change of his father's employer. I remember when I first saw Sherlock, his piercing blue eyes, high and prominent cheekbones, and his stiff, upright posture, he stood out so much as he still does. He walked into my homeroom on the first day of school, his unique looks distracting everyone from their conversations. Even with all eyes on…

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;…

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…

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…

Sherlock Holmes: The creation of Victorian Age The Victorian Age was undoubtedly the glorious period in English history. The age has been credited for producing new opportunities and tendencies not only in the fields of trade and commerce but also in the fields of literature. Apart from classical writing, there was a rise in novels and short stories which featured fantastical stories. Those stories had larger than life characters and one of them was Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes, the…

Paras Gupta Professor Huff ENG 236 June 8, 2015 A Scandal in Bohemia Irene Adler is usually a fictional character within the Sherlock Holmes stories. She had been featured within the short history "A Scandal in Bohemia". She is one of the most well- known female characters within the Sherlock Holmes line, despite appearing in just one history, and is generally used as being a romantic curiosity for Holmes throughout derivative functions, though within the story it is made apparent that Holmes is…

You are a literary scholar and expert on the mystery genre. You have been asked to deliver a guest lecture for a college course in criminal justice; specifically, you must discuss the qualities of a good detective. Write a lecture that compares two popular detectives, one of whom must be Sherlock Holmes. The other detective can be from another work of literature, a film, or a television series. Evaluate the fictional detectives’ positive and negative qualities, their strategies, and their…

Holmes and the Stolen Stones slot review Welcome to the mysterious and dangerous world of Victorian London and the company of the greatest detective of all times – Sherlock Holmes. Holmes and the Stolen Stones slot from Yggdrasil Gaming is one of the highly anticipated slots of released on September 2015. Follow the most respected detective and his right hand Dr Watson (both looking like they were hitting the gym for at least a year!) as they try to find the stolen diamonds in this well-done…