Sherlock Holmes

Doyle’s mysteries, the most sought out genre of all time. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the Sherlock Holmes mysteries. These stories have always been favored, and they are still popular today. But what makes them still just as exciting to read? Suspense. All these stories begin slow and move up to the action then the reveal. That is how almost every story is written, but Doyle’s even more. The main character, Sherlock Homes, is much more intellectually quicker than the readers. This helps build…

Obstruction of Justice In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes: Hound of the Baskervilles (1986), the idea that justice is put forth over the character’s individual righteousness is the privileged idea. What is actually being shown is that the characters, even Sherlock Holmes, favor what they personally think is right ahead of what is just. Sir Henry Baskerville takes it upon himself to chase down Selden because he knows he is a convict, but he does not stop to consider that he should…

In article entitled, “Sherlock Holmes: Father of Scientific Crime and Detection” written by Stanton O. Berg, he addresses that there is more to the Holmes stories than simply providing entertainment. “I feel a strong case can be made that the famous sleuth had a decided stimulating influence on the development of modem scientific crime detection” (Berg 446). Sherlock Holmes as the inspiration for crime detection was a theory that he was interested…

Sherlock Holmes was not guilty for the unfortunate death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott. In the novella, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the brilliant and cunning detective Sherlock Holmes solves a seeming impossible mystery at Stoke Moran. A petrified Helen Stoner came to Holmes and Dr. Watson with a challenging case. Upon further investigation, the two sleuths decided to stay the night in Helen’s chamber awaiting any signs of distress. After hours of anxiously…

“Sherlock Holmes: Search for clues” is a pervasive game, and the concept of the game is that each gamer will become a detective and try to find all the clues in our environment in order to solve the case. First, players will be given a story based on their current location. Every location has different storyline and different clues that needed to be found. The clues are hidden in all of the places near them, and they need to walk through the cities to get these clues and solve the problem.…

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…

Sherlock Holmes is a detective hero of all times, a fictional character who is more famous than his creator Arthur Conan Doyle. The Scottish author Doyle wrote one of his well-known novel “The Sing of Four starring” the unique and detailed character Sherlock Holmes. Although Doyle has never been a colonist nor his character Holmes, the novel presents the idea of the British empire and its power along with the danger of colonized India and its people through Victorian perspective. I shall start…

who gets the best of Sherlock Holmes ever. Pleased with this story, it was rather easy to figure out what was going to happen. Some other favorites were “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” which is one of the few in this collection that I actually underestimated at first and “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches,” which is just so creepy, and creepy or scary stories are a huge thing for me. The set of stories provide for interesting and entertaining look of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in…

In the book "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" Sherlock Holmes believed that "doctor's make the greatest criminals."I think Holmes came to the conclusion that " doctors make the greatest criminals" because doctors are able to legally prescribe drugs and medications that if one takes to much of it can kill. Doctors will not be held a countable for this because it's a label of directions that the states the amount to be taken a day.When doctors prescribe the drug there is no suspicion that it's…

times; Sherlock Holmes is the most portrayed character in literary history, it is possible for one to study the development of cinema simply through the many interpretations of Sherlock Holmes. With the original stories at heart Mark Gatiss and Stephen Moffatt created a modern adaption of the classic 1900’s series based in central London. This essay will focus on the final episode in the BBC’s production of Sherlock…