The Best of Sherlock Holmes

Sir 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...

This is an interesting question! As the previous Educator has stated, there was never a 221B in Baker Street until relatively recently, when the Sherlock Holmes Museum took up residence at a house...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Best of Sherlock Holmes recounts some of the most iconic cases solved by Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is a noted recluse, married to the art of deduction. Holmes is obsessed...

The 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...

The 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...

Sherlock 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...

In "A Scandal in Bohemia," the first story in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock shows off his powers of observation by telling Watson that he's gained weight, he's...

In his letter to Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire," Robert Ferguson claims that he is writing on behalf of someone else. Watson is taken in by Ferguson's subterfuge, but...

Doyle 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...

Sherlock Holmes makes this particular comment in regards to a note that Mary left behind for her uncle, Mr. Holder. In this note, she reveals that she was going away on account of a statement her...

In the story "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire," Holmes is summoned to examine a case involving the second wife of a man named Ferguson. This wife, who is from Peru, has beaten Ferguson's son,...

Holmes became popular with male readers because Sir Arthur Conan Doyle took care to give him an enviable lifestyle. Unlike his readers, Sherlock Holmes works only when he chooses. His clients...

Sherlock 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....

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...

Sherlock 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...

Julia 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...

I 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...

Well, 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...

I 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...

Sherlock Holmes is calculating in his use of deception. He employs trickery and misdirection for the purposes of gaining more information. In "Silver Blaze," Sherlock Holmes's conversation with...