The Sherlock Holmes stories are typically told from the point of view of Dr. John Watson, who is Sherlock Holmes's close friend and companion. Watson serves as the narrator of the stories and provides the readers with insights into Holmes's deductive reasoning and investigative methods.
They are what Sherlock Holmes refers to as the official police force. Consisting of boys who either live on the street or whose families are poor, the Baker Street Irregulars are the group Holmes uses to follow criminals, collect clues, and other things. He pays them for their work, just as if they were actual policemen.
Sherlock Holmes The creator of the great fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle had trained as a Physician in Edinburgh and had worked as a General Medical Practitioner (a doctor) before he began writing the Sherlock Holmes stories. One of Doyle's tutors at Edinburgh was Dr Joseph Bell whose great powers of observation of munute details and deductions from these observations, were the basis of Holmes' similar abilities.Dr. Joseph Bell, one of Arthur Conan Doyle's medical school professors. Bell instructed his students in the ways of observation and rational deduction, qualities that Doyle found excellent for a detective to possess.
It was Professor Moriarty that may have proved the most worthy adversary for our most insightful detective.
Sherlock Holmes' first case was 'The Gloria Scott' published in 1893, but the first published Sherlock Holmes story was the novel, 'A Study in Scarlet' (1887) which, coincidentally, was his first case where he was accompanied by Watson.
Edgar Allen Poe, whose story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" appeared in 1841. Poe wrote further stories about the detective in that story, Auguste Dupin, who appears in the subsequent stories "The Mystery of Marie Roget" and "The Purloined Letter". Poe's Dupin appeared 46 years before the first appearance of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
Gradpoint: By noting from whose vantage point the story is being told.
"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is a Sherlock Holmes short story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It follows Holmes and Dr. Watson as they investigate the mysterious death of a young woman and the unusual circumstances surrounding her sister's impending marriage. The story involves a deadly snake, a locked room, and a clever solution by Holmes.
Hello. In the best effort I can, I would like to try and answer the question posed of why Sherlock Holmes didn't want his picture taken. In the dialogue exchanged after Lord Blackwood was taken away in cuffs, Sherlock and Watson discuss with the Inspector about how London will sigh a relief over Blackwood being captured. In a bout of selflessness, Holmes offers the Inspector a cigar and congratulates HIM (THE INSPECTOR) as being the sole individual who has accomplished solving the case. As not to take away from that, Holmes tries to cover up his face so that it will hopefully look like the Inspector was with someone who was not important enough (or perhaps was the criminal themselves who did not want their picture taken) to bother having a picture taken with. In otherwords, Holmes was hoping that by blocking his face, those reading the paper would take a quick glance, notice that there was indeed someone else there, but then turn away and devote their full attention to the man whose picture WAS taken --- the Inspector's (with a cigar in hand, mind you). But, as we all know, people are not stupid, and the fact that Watson was also captured in the background will ultimately lend itself to the "masked figure" present - Sherlock Holmes. Plus, it doesn't help when you have an eager report who cannot shut his mouth and blurts in bold letters on the front that Holmes was indeed the one who solved the case. So while Holmes' intention was to divert the reader's (s') attention(s) away from him in the picture and give the Inspector the full credit, the media, as always, seems to ruin things. I hope this has answered your question and that, even more so, you can understand what I mean by it. Best wishes, S.R.
The main characters in "The Man with the Twisted Lip" are Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and Neville St. Clair. The story revolves around the disappearance of Neville St. Clair and Holmes' investigation into the case.
Sherlock Holmes' new client, Helen Stoner, has a vague fear of eminent danger, but she cannot quite understand what it is that she has to fear. Her step-father has a reputation as a very violent man who was forced to leave India after killing his butler and serving a lengthy sentence. Helen's father died when she was two years old, and her mother died in a train accident eight years ago. Her twin sister, Julia, died two years prior under suspicious circumstances, and she has been forced to sleep in her sister's old bedroom. Holmes agrees to investigate.
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As far as who lived next door to him (such as in 220 Baker Street), it is not mentioned in the canonical stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Only does it say that he lives in a boarding house with two others - the first being Mrs. Hudson, the landlady, who lives on the lower (ground) floor and cooks and cleans the house, and the other being (naturally) Dr. John Watson, whose bedroom is on the third (second) floor. Holmes' room is on the second (first floor) as well as the men's shared sitting room. The only other I can think of is Madame Tussaud's, which opened on the Baker Street Bazaar in 1835.