The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Forensic applies to courts or the judicial system, combine that with science and forensic science mean applying scientific methods and processes to solving crime. Forensic Science deals with the application of the knowledge and methodology of various disciplines of science to legal matters. It involves the use of multiple disciplines such as physics, chemistry, biology, computer science and engineering for evidence analysis. For instance, physics is used to understand the pattern of a blood…

crime scene and must be discovered, recorded, and collected for further examination. When footprint analysis is required, the forensic foot tracker or podiatrist may act as an appendage or a primary participant in the case. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes states, “There is no branch of detective science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps.(1995…

Follow the Sherlock trail across London Since the time we are born we have many interesting stories circulating our world but what catches to the whims and fancies of our minds is the mystical world of Sherlock Homes a character from the creations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s writings. The character has gone through a multitude of incarnations over the last couple of years. During the recent times in one of the BBC series Sherlock which showcased some of the famous cases that clearly pictured…

respectively, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler and The Maltese Falcon by John Huston are iconic in the detective genre for reinventing what it really means to be a detective in the world of literature. Their main characters are a far cry from the Sherlock Holmes and the Philo Vance type of private eye who never make any mistakes and always get the better of the villain. Instead, their detectives are gritty, hardened, and deeply flawed. However, one detective is more honourable and moral than…

In the short stories "Sherlock Holmes and the Blue Carbuncle" and "How Watson Learned the Trick", Sherlock Holmes is the main character with his sidekick-like associate, Dr. Watson. In both stories, a similarity can be seen that Dr. Watson is a cliche; a stereotype of a sidekick. In the first story, he doesn't have any speaking roles longer than 2 sentences, and, in the second, he tries, yet fails, to get inside of Holmes' head using the same technique he uses for his deductions. In each text,…

Sherlock Holmes: Finding Fact Embedded in Fiction Did you know that one in five modern day Britains believes that Sherlock Holmes was a real person? To this day, mail still arrives addressed to him at 221 Bakers Street, an address that did not even exist during the time of Sherlock Holmes. Did you ever wonder why this is? In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes detective stories, readers are entertained by the ability of the eccentric and erratic detective’s ability to solve unsolvable…

In the movie The Bone Collector, a forensic science movie, it is often portrayed as a movie that can be easily solved within a few hours based off shows that deals with forensic work like NCIS, Law and Order, Cold Case, and Snapped; but the solving time is often misunderstood. The Bone Collector is specifically based on forensic anthropology, which is the application of science to the physical by applying skeletal analysis and techniques in archaeology to solving criminal cases. Forensic…

To unravel a murder, you have to strip it to the bone. Over my summer break, I spent much of my time watching a show called Bones. Bones was created by Hart Hanson and directed by Dwight Little and is still currently in production. It features the work of Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, TJ Thyne, Eric Millegan, Tamara Taylor, John Francis Daley, and John Boyd as the main cast. The show has a recurring cast consisting of Patricia Belcher, Ryan O’Neal, Eugene Byrd, Michael Grant…

explanation in a way where Dupin tells all of the important characters what he has discovered in a sweeping reveal that shocks both the characters and the reader. This is a style that is copied in many detective writings and is used by many characters from Holmes to…

Sir Henry Baskerville returning to his long lost family estate. But thinks take a turn for the worst when his relative Sir Charles Baskerville dies right before his arrival by some unknown source. As the story unfolds and progresses, detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson aim to find the unknown cause of death. “The Hound of the Baskervilles” is a very good film filled with a very perplexing story line that keeps the audience always guessing, many plot twists, a dark tone, and an ending…