Sherlock Holmes

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.

No not quite. Some similarities can be drawn but the movie has more action than detective work, which the books does.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

A very subjective question, but I would say - The Hound of the Baskervilles. I agree. That has been made into at least 10 different versions for movies and TV.

Wilson gets paid to copy the encyclopedia. What the real truth is that the red headed league is fake and that they got him out of the pawn shop so that they could dig into the bank and steal the money. As soon as the tunnel is done Wilson gets a notice that the red headed league has disbanded and that sends Wilson to Sherlock Holmes with the question of what is going on.

A Study in Scarlet is the first one followed by:

The Sign of Four

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Valley of Fear

His Last Bow

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

To answer your question, the date generally accepted by scholars as the date that Holmes supposedly plunged into the Reichenbach Falls is: Monday, 4th May 1891.

His death of old age or some other cause later in his life is not recorded.

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Sherlock Holmes was not a real person but a character created by writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This fiction hero "died" in the story "The Adventure of the Final Problem" published in 1893 in The Strand Magazine and then in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"

People were so concerned that Conan Doyle had to bring the great detective back. In 1901 Sherlock Holmes reappeared in "The Hound of the Baskervilles". The story supposedly happened before Holmes' "death" at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland.

Holmes returned officially from the dead in the 1903 story "The Empty House", which is the first story in the book "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"

Doyle wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories until 1927 though the chronology of Holmes' adventures ends with "His Last Bow", at the beginning of World War I in 1914.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930.

Peter Jones is the Scotland Yard detective assigned to the case who may or may not be the same person as Athelney Jones from 'The Sign of Four' case.

The fictional character resided at 22lB Baker Street in London. This may well be toady as sort of Sherlock Holmes Museum. It is not too distant from the Madame Tussaud wax museum, and she was for real. Somewhat congruently- Charlie Chan operated out of 22lB Pacific Avenue in some California City. The Motto of the Wise is- Beware of Surprises!

Violin-filled classical------

"German [music] . . . is rather more to my taste than Italian or French." -- Sherlock Holmes, 'The Red-Headed League'

[Sherlock Holmes was] patiently occupied upon a subject which he had recently made his hobby - the music of the Middle Ages. -- John Watson, 'The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans'

There are four concerts noted in the stories that Holmes likely attended:

Violinist [Wilhelmina] Norman-Neruda (1817-1904) in 'A Study in Scarlet'

Violinist [Pablo Martín Melitón de] Sarasate (1844-1908) in 'The Red-Headed League'

Music of composer [Wilhelm Richard] Wagner (1813-1883) in 'The Adventure of the Red Circle'

'Carina' in 'The Adventure of the Retired Colourman'

Also a performance of the French opera Les Huguenots featuring the De Reszkes [Jean (1850-1925), Edouard (1853-1917), & Joséphine (1855-1891)] at the end of 'The Hound of the Baskervilles.'

Being the first Consulting Detective in the world :}

Also, for bringing observation and deduction to criminal detection in Conan Doyle's world. Without Holmes' contribution, much criminal detection of the day followed Occam's (Ockham's) Razor more than an empirical, investigative, scientific approach.

His brother, Mycroft.

Sherlock Holmes had one brother. His name was Mycroft Holmes. He was smarter than Sherlock, but did not like moving around the way Sherlock always did.

Sherlock Holmes's grandmother was the sister of the French painter, Vernet.

Towards the beginning of 'The Adventure of the Norwood Builder' we find this passage:

At the time of which I speak, Holmes had been back for some months, and I, at his request, had sold my practice and returned to share the old quarters in Baker Street. A young doctor, named Verner, had purchased my small Kensington practice, and given with astonishingly little demur the highest price that I ventured to ask - an incident which only explained itself some years later, when I found that Verner was a distant relation of Holmes', and that it was my friend who had really found the money.

Their partnership works well in this mystery because they communicate with each other and play off each other well, as in other stories. They trust each other, and so they can't be corrupted or easily killed to remove them from solving the mystery. Watson is silent when Holmes wants to lay a trap, and many interesting details are revealed because either Watson is writing to Holmes, or asking Holmes to explain something. Mostly, in this story, it is Holmes' mind and Watson's footwork and observations... Holmes does come out to help Watson in the end, but the pairing works well because they both contribute and work as a team, while having different talents and roles.

Yes, he marries Miss Mary Morstan, who he met in the Sign of Four, and who is thought to have died during the space between The Final Problem and The Empty House. He is also thought to have remarried later on, but it is never specified who to.

"My friend and colleague, Dr. Watson" or, sometimes, just "my friend, Dr. Watson."