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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...
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
221b 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 Holmes
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...
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
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...
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes contributes markedly to the preservation of law and order in his society because he solves cases that baffle others. His keen sense of logic and his astute skill in forensics...
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
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...
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
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...
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
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...
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
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...
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
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...
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock 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 Holmes
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...
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
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...
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
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...
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
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,...
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
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...
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
If you've ever seen the Sherlock Holmes movies you'll notice a stark contrast between Robert Downey Jr.'s portrayal and the Detective on display in the books. In the books we have Watson describing...
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
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...
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
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...
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
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...
