Sherlock Holmes

Holmes is extremely interested in "all that is bizarre" or unusual. The nature of this case and its clues are definitely unique, so the interest of Holmes and Watson is peaked. ...

Conan Doyles' hero detective wears a deerstalker.
While Holmes wore a Deerstalker in one story, he was equally inclined to top hats and, in disguise, even sailor's caps.

*Additional Note: Holmes' so-called "classic look" of the deerstalker cap and Inverness capecoat were strictly for traveling and country wear. The famous deerstalker is even referred to as a "cloth traveling cap." While in London, where Holmes spent most of his time, he carried himself as a gentleman, and could usually be found in a top hat and coat while about town.

Dr. Watson is called upon late at night by a female friend of his wife. Her husband has been absent for several days and, as he is an opium addict, she is sure he has been indulging in a lengthy drug binge in a dangerous East End opium den. Frantic with worry, she seeks Dr. Watson's help in fetching him home. Watson does this, but he also finds his friend Sherlock Holmes in the den, disguised as an old man, trying to extract information about a new case from the addicts in the den.

Mr. Neville St. Clair, a respectable and punctual country businessman, has disappeared. Making the matter even more mysterious is that Mrs. St. Clair is quite sure that she saw her husband at a second-floor window of the opium den, in Upper Swandam Lane, a rather rough part of town near the docks. He withdrew into the window immediately, and Mrs. St. Clair is quite sure that there was something very wrong.

Naturally, she tries to enter the building, but her way was blocked by the opium den's owner, a Lascar. She quickly fetches the police, but they cannot find Mr. St. Clair. The room, in whose window she saw her husband, is that of a dirty, disfigured beggar, well known to the police, by the name of Hugh Boone. The police are about to put this report down a mistake of some kind when Mrs. St. Clair spots and identifies a box of wooden bricks that her husband said he would buy for their son. A further search turns up some of her husband's clothes. Later, his coat, with the pockets full of several pounds' worth of pennies and halfpennies, is found in the Thames just below the building.

The beggar is arrested and locked up at the police station, and Holmes initially is quite convinced that Mr. St. Clair has been the unfortunate victim of murder. However, several days after Mr. St. Clair's disappearance, his wife receives a letter in his own writing. The arrival of this letter forces Holmes to reconsider his conclusions, leading him eventually to an extraordinary solution. Taking a bath sponge to the police station in a Gladstone bag, Holmes washes Boone's still-dirty face, causing his face to be revealed - the face of Neville St. Clair! Upon Mr. St. Clair's immediate confession, this solves the mystery, and also creates a few problems.

It seems that Mr. St. Clair has been leading a double life, one of respectability, and the other as a beggar. In his youth, he had been an actor before becoming a newspaper reporter. In order to research an article, he had disguised himself as a beggar for a short time, during which he earned a very large amount of money. Later in his life, he returned to the street to beg for several days in order to pay a large debt. Given a choice between his newspaper salary and his high beggar earnings, he eventually became a professional beggar. His takings were large enough that he was able to establish himself as a country gentleman, marry well, and begin a respectable family. His wife never knew what he did for a living, and Holmes agrees to preserve Mr. St. Clair's secret as long as no more is heard of Hugh Boone.

The story is unique among Holmes stories in two ways: when the mystery is resolved, it turns out that no crime has been committed and there is no villain; and unlike other stories, Holmes (or in fact, Doyle) does not explain how he solved the mystery, and leaves it to the intelligent reader to work out (the clue is fairly enough given in the story).

Well, according to some, Conan Doyle got the name Holmes from Oliver Wendell Holmes and the name Sherlock from a famous violinist. There are many different guesses on how Sherlock Holmes was named, but this is the one I think is true.

I believe you are referring to the case Holmes termed "that little affair of the Vatican cameos" he was involved in at the time of Sir Charles Baskerville's death. In that case, Holmes probably went to the Vatican; otherwise, I am not sure to what you are referring.

Lord Blackwood had a clip on his noose that shifted the weight to his waist and took a mixture of ancient herbs to give himself the appearance of being dead. The herbs momentarily stop one's pulse from being felt. The limestone outside of Lord Blackwood's grave wasn't shattered by supernatural force. Instead, it was shattered beforehand, and glued together by the honeycomb substance Holmes and Watson saw while going through the redheaded dwarf's quarters.

'The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place' was published in The Strand Magazine' in April 1927, and then it was included in 'The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes' later that same year. It was the last Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

"well over six feet." as Watson described him. Most scholars put him around 6ft, 4in.

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"[Dr Roylott] went out to Calcutta, where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he beat his native butler to death, and narrowly escaped a capital sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment, and afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man." -- Helen Stoner, 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band'

1. Holmes' first case

2. Watson's wounding in the battle of Maiwand

3. Holmes/Watson meeting

4. Watson's first marriage

5. Watson's meeting with Mycroft Holmes

6. Holmes' and Professor Moriarty's struggle at Reichenbach Falls

7. Holmes' return

8. Watson's second marriage

9. Holmes' retirement

10. Holmes' last case

Read the story, take notes about Morris, and you will have your sketch.

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes was created in 1927.

Well first off I must say that Sherlock Holmes is not actually a real person, he is a fictional character. but to the point of answering your question, the Victorian Holmes, you would either find him in his book status (neat hair, long face, dear stalker, pipe, ALWAYS with a revolver, and in a rather nice suit) in the film Sherlock Holmes you would find him ( rather scruffy hair, braces crossed over his chest, ALWAYS with a revolver or if he is in a resterant a scruffy suit) very sorry about spelling!. now if it was the modern BBC tv series, (nice suit, no tie, ALWAYS has a revolver, scruffy hair) hope this helped

The answer to that question is the horse, Sliver Blaze. When John Straker lit the candle to nick the horse's tendon (he had already practiced on the sheep), the horse started and kicked him in the forehead.

To Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler was always *The* Woman. It was not that he was attracted or attached romantically to her but that she was the only woman to outsmart him, the only others being a few men.

Sherlock Holmes enjoys fencing, talented at fencing but most of all, he loves the violin as well as music itself and to test out new chemical experiments. According to him, his mind starves for things to think and to do.

Julia's bed was bolted to the floor so she couldn't move if she found out about the snake crawling down the bell rope to bite her in her sleep. The bed was bolted down because it was in the perfect position next to the ventilator shaft and by the fake bell rope all perfect for the sneaky snake to climb down and bite her to kill her.

No, but he was based off of Joe Bell, the author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's old teacher.

The Five Orange Pips is the fifth story in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes collection by Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote fifty-six short Sherlock Holmes stories and four full length novels in total. The story is narrated by the character of Dr. John Watson. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in November of 1891.

At the outset of the story Watson is staying with Sherlock Holmes for a few days and one evening during his visit a young man named John Openshaw comes to consult Holmes. John gives Holmes and Watson some background about his life. He grew up in England with his father and he had one uncle who had gone to Florida as a young man. John's uncle Elias was a confederate soldier in the American Civil War. A few years after the surrender of General Lee, Elias returned to England and took to a reclusive life in the provinces.

Elias became very attached to John and gave him authority and control over his household. One morning John's uncle received a letter from India which contained five dried orange pips and had "K.K.K" marked upon the envelope. John thought the communication must have been a joke but his uncle's extreme reaction to it persuaded him otherwise. Elias exclaimed that the letter was a herald of death and without explanation he brought out a brass box full of papers and hurriedly burnt the contents. John observed the letters "K.K.K" on the lid of the box.

After this incident Elias intensified his reclusiveness except for infrequent occasions when he would run outside and declare that he would not be cooped up like an animal. These drunken declarations made, however, Elias would run back inside and lock the door behind him. One night Elias never returned and was found face down in a pool in the garden. A jury delivered a verdict of suicide which John did not believe since his uncle had been so frightened of death.

John's father came into possession of Elias Openshaw's house and the two of them lived there without incident for a year. One morning however John's father received a letter, postmarked from Dundee, containing five dried orange pips and bearing the mark "K.K.K." The letter contained the instruction "put the papers on the sundial." John realised that the letter must be referring to the papers burnt by Elias and wished to call in the police but his father forbade it. Three days later John's father died in what was apparently an accidental fall.

Over two years passed with no further incident and John hoped that the curse upon his family had ended but then he received an envelope containing five dried orange pips and bearing the mark "K.K.K." The letter had a London postmark and also reiterated the instruction given to John's father to put the papers on the sundial.

Holmes is very concerned by this news and outraged that the police have dismissed the matter as a practical joke. John Openshaw has a single piece of paper that survived the burning and Holmes urges him to place this on the sundial in the brass box with a note to say that the other papers were destroyed. John hurries off to fulfil this task and Holmes explains to Watson that K.K.K stands for Ku Klux Klan. The K.K.K was a secret society formed by ex-confederate soldiers after the American Civil War. Holmes believes that the papers Elias burnt may have contained incriminating evidence against some men who had been involved with the Klan.

The next morning Holmes prepares to set out upon the case but Watson sees from the morning paper that Holmes is too late, John Openshaw is reported to have drowned by Waterloo Bridge apparently after an accidental fall. Holmes is deeply affected by the death of the young man and sets a trap for the gang responsible for the murder. That night he returns to Baker Street and puts five orange pips in an envelope and addresses it to Captain James Calhoun. On the inside flap he writes "S.H for J.C."

Holmes explains to Watson that this captain is the leader of the gang. By tracing vessels which touched port in accordance with the date and postmark of the K.K.K letters Holmes traced the murderers to a barque called the Lone Star. Holmes has informed the police in Savannah that three wanted men are aboard the ship. He hopes that the orange pips will give Calhoun a sleepless night before he is arrested.

The Lone Star never reaches port. A shattered wreck supposed to be the ship's remains is discovered and this is all that is ever known about the fate of the vessel and those travelling aboard it.

Near the end of 'The Sign of Four' Holmes says: ". . . love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true, cold reason which I place above all things. I should never marry myself, lest I bias my judgment."

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.