The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Introduction "Death's Acre" reminisces the career of a forensic hero named Dr. Bill Bass. He is the founder of the well­known "Body Farm" at the University of Tennessee. This extraordinary site is the world's only research location committed to observing deceased human decomposition. The research information collected at the Body Farm has helped Bass and police solve many grotesque homicides and lock up some very morbid murderers. The story is based mainly around these cases, which give it a…

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…

how “Adventure of the Speckled Band” is a good detective by the detective and the crime. Beginning with the Detective, in the story the detective is probably one you had already heard of is Sherlock Holmes. He is known for his detective skills, like his knowledge, imagination, and his detail to the clues. Holmes is able to…

In The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction, private investigators are willing to do what ever it takes to solve the crime. They are contracted and do not work for the police. They hold both good and bad qualities that help them solve crimes. In Raymond Chandler’s “Trouble is My Business” he introduces us to a private investigator by the name of Chandler Phillip Marlowe. This investigator is witty and speaks with too much sarcasm at times. He is not concerned with reporting murders to the…

Evaluation of the Hound of the Baskervilles The movie the Hound if the Baskervilles is about a story happened around Sherlock Holmes, who is a wise, clever detective written by Conan Doyle. “The Baskerville family has supposedly been under a curse since the era of the English Civil War, when Hugo Baskerville offered his soul to the devil for help in abducting a woman and was reportedly killed by a giant spectral hound. Sir Charles believed in the curse and was apparently running away from…

Evidence is essential to solving a case. There are many different strategies to solve one. Some include using criminalistics, forensic serology, and forensic evidence. Different strategies may give more accurate results in figuring out a case. However, in “Forensic: Evidence, Clues, and Investigation” by Andrea Campbell, forensic evidence is the most important to use when attempting to solve a crime. Forensic evidence is any physical evidence pulled from the scene or collected throughout the…

When people go to college they often have one major in mind. Many people also often have somewhat of an idea of what they want to do for a career. In this essay I will be discussing an occupation, its major, important things that go with it, and also other jobs that you can choose within that major. In 1896 Sir Edward Richard Henry found a system to classify fingerprints. In 1897 DNA could be used to find or eliminate suspects from the case. Berkeley began an academic department for…

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…

all consider the famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, a hero, but he thinks otherwise. “Do your research. [He’s] not a hero, [He’s] a high-functioning sociopath”. (Moffat) Sherlock Holmes denies he’s a hero even though so many people look up to him in that way. They look up to him as people look up to Odysseus, a Greek hero, who fought against monsters with his crew of men on a ship after the Trojan War. Sherlock compares to Odysseus from The Odyssey. Sherlock Holmes and Odysseus both have…

I am a forensic anthropologist whose name is Kareem. I have been working in this field for 24 years. My job is to use my knowledge of the human skeleton to decipher and demystify clues from the decedent’s bones in order to identify the deceased. Additionally, in Harvard I earned my professional degree which took me 10 years. I studied forensic anthropology because I have always wanted to be a forensic anthropologist since I was seven years old. I have identified forty nine decedent’s identity.…