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The Best of Sherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes makes a good literary detective in part because he is far from perfect. When The Sign of the Four begins, he is injecting himself with a seven-percent solution of cocaine, and he...
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The Best of Sherlock HolmesJulia Stoner was scheduled to get married a fortnight after she died. Helen Stoner comes to hire Sherlock Holmes because her twin sister died and she is afraid that she is next. She hears strange...
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The Best of Sherlock HolmesSir Arthur Conan Doyle's pairing of the eccentric and brilliant detective with the somewhat stuffy physician home from military service is one of the most successful in literature. Whether in the...
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The Best of Sherlock HolmesThe highly astute Sherlock Holmes has an uncanny ability to reason, acute knowledge of forensics, and a talent for disguise that greatly contributes to the maintenance of law and order. Holmes's...
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The Best of Sherlock HolmesDoyle and Shakespeare both use eccentric but brilliant characters to represent the foibles of human nature in Hamlet and the Best of Sherlock Holmes through their egos. Although there do not seem...
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The Best of Sherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes calls himself a "consulting detective," but actually he is what we nowadays call a "private detective," not unlike Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade or Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe....
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The Best of Sherlock HolmesExplain how Watson's habit of embellishing both helps and hinders a reader's attempt to solve the...I do not believe that all the readers of the Sherlock Holmes stories and novels are attempting to solve the mystery before Holmes does. Some readers are intrigued by the settings, the costumes, the...
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The Best of Sherlock HolmesI have always found The Hound of the Baskervilles to be the best Sherlock Holmes story in terms of literary merit. It seems like so much more than a detective novel. It breaks the pattern in many...
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The Best of Sherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes has many characteristics that distinguish him or even make him an icon among other detective novel characters. Certainly Arthur Conan Doyle's portrayal of the detective's superb...
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The Best of Sherlock HolmesI think that you must be referring to Mrs. St. Clair in the story "The Man with the Twisted Lip." To me, Mrs. St. Clair only really thinks the opium den is terrible because of what she thinks has...
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes221b Baker St, Marylebone, London W1 was the official address provided by the Museum itself. This would have been the place in 1881 where Holmes, then unemployed, met Dr. John Watson and shortly...
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The Best of Sherlock HolmesThe facts that Sherlock Holmes presented to Dr. Watson are that:1. There was a card on the goose's leg inscribed, "For Mrs. Henry Baker."2. The battered billycock hat had the initials H.B. in the...
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The Best of Sherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes often explains his reasoning to Watson at the end of a tale, after the mystery has been solved and the guilty party is either dead or has been taken off to jail. Another good...
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The Best of Sherlock HolmesRealistically the publication dates of stories was related to the fact that Doyle was a professional writer. He wrote to earn income. He was not as concerned with consistency as he was his paycheck.
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The Best of Sherlock HolmesWell, to be honest, mostly he does not do so—because the Victorian detective story didn't really exist as a coherent genre. There were mysteries a plenty, but they were more part of the larger...