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There have been many scholarly works dealing with Sherlock Holmes, some working within the bounds of the Great Game, and some written from the perspective that Holmes is a fictional character. In particular, there have been three major annotated editions of the complete series. The first was William Baring-Gould's 1967 The Annotated ...
Jun 6, 2024 · Sherlock Homes is a fictional character created by the Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The prototype of the modern mastermind detective, Holmes first appeared in Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet (1887).
- Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character created by the Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle. However, Conan Doyle did model Holmes’s methods and man...
- Sherlock Holmes’s success as a “consulting detective” comes from his uncanny ability to gather evidence based upon his honed skills of observation...
- Claiming that Sherlock Holmes distracted him “from better things,” Arthur Conan Doyle in 1893 famously attempted to kill him off in the story “The...
- Sherlock Holmes’s greatest nemesis is Professor James Moriarty whom Holmes considers the “Napoleon of Crime.” The character of Professor Moriarty r...
- Sherlock Holmes never marries anyone in Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories. The only woman whom Holmes ever holds in high regard is Irene Adler—...
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Tall & Gaunt 1. He measured 6 feet (3STU, 470) or over 6 feet but he was so lean that he seemed even taller. (STUD, 196) 2. He had a tall, gaunt figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. (BOSC, 19) 3. He had a tall, austere figure (HOUN, 1188), a tall lean figure. (VALL, 1577) 4. He was a tal...
He had that cat-like love of personal cleanliness (HOUN, 2772). He affected a certain quiet primness of dress (MUSG, 1). He usually wear a tweed suit or frock-coat, and occasionally an ulster (STUD, 965). In private, he wear a mouse-coloured dressing-gown (EMPT, 399), a purple one (BLUE, 1) and sometimes a blue one (TWIS, 400). In the country, he h...
Holmes smoked cigars, cigarettes, and of course, pipes. Three specific pipes are mentioned: 1. Most often, he smoked his old black pipe (CREE, 9), the old and oily black clay pipe (IDEN, 205) when in meditative mood (SOLI, 137). 2. He smoked occasionally an old briar-root pipe. (SIGN, 63) 3. He smoked a cherrywood in a disputatious mood. (COPP, 4) ...
Sherlock Holmes was a man who seldom took exercise for exercise's sake. Few men were capable of greater muscular effort, and he was undoubtedly one of the finest boxers of his weight; but he looked upon aimless bodily exertion as a waste of energy, and he seldom bestirred himself save where there was some professional object to be served. Then he w...
Watson described him as an automaton, a calculating machine with something positively inhuman in him (SIGN). Sometimes with a face of that Red Indian composure which had made so many regard him as a machine rather than a man (CROO, NAVA). He loved above all things precision and concentration of thought (SOLI). Watson often refers to his restlessnes...
Philosophy
Sherlock Holmes quotes about Fate: 1. Why does Fate play such tricks with poor helpless worms? (BOSC, 623) 2. The ways of Fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest. (VEIL, 274) 3. Is not all life pathetic and futile? We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow - misery. (RETI, 17) 4. What is the meaning of it, Watson? What object is served by this circle of misery and viole...
Religion
1. Holmes agreed with anti-christian ideas of Winwood Reade when he recommend to read the Martyrdom of Man (SIGN, 338). 2. He agreed with Richter quoting the writer: the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness. (SIGN, 1381) 3. He refused to believe in supernatural. (DEVI, HOUN, SUSS) 4. He read and quoted Darwin. (STUD, 850) 5. He said: There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reas...
May 5, 2016 · Neil McCaw traces the evolution of Sherlock. Lesson by Neil McCaw, animation by Lasse Rützou Bruntse. View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/who-is-sherlock-holmes-neil-mccawMore than a ...
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Sherlock Holmes is brilliantly clever, sharply intellectual, and captivatingly mysterious, and he is an object of fascination in his fictional London and the real world. Read on to discover what we know about the Great Detective—or at least, what we think we know.
Sep 21, 2022 · Learn how the greatest detective came about almost by accident and how his creator came to hate him. Discover the inspirations, adaptations and controversies of the iconic character and his stories.
Jan 6, 2016 · In 1893, author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle shoved detective Sherlock Holmes off a cliff. The cliff was fictionally located in Switzerland, over the Reichenbach Falls.
