Sherlock Holmes

Holmes does this type of deduction often in the stories as he wants to find out as much as he can about the problem at hand. He needs to independently verify anything he is told, so he can definitively prove his case. Also, he apparently wants to give his client a sense that the case is in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing.

Hmm well he is very well known in my opinion. He's talented, smart, brilliant and altogether mastermind...although he doesn't have very good feelings. Watson described him as a robot. Sad, sad. And not as smart as his brother, either.

he was a very strong built person though old.

he was very aggressive in nature. he used to fight with everyone.

he had studied medicine in India.

he kept strange pets like a cheetah and a baboon

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. . . a huge man framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his hat actually brushed the cross-bar of the doorway, and his breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and the high thin fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old bird of prey.

He never "caught" him in the sense he was tried and convicted, rather Moriarty fell to his death on 4 May 1891 after wrestling with Holmes on a precarious ledge at Reichenbach falls. At the time, it was presumed that Holmes had fallen as well.

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle takes place during the Christmas season and has a Christmas Goose as a key part of the adventure.

Judging by your question I am assuming that this answer is for the Novice Christmas quiz??? lol

note from han8661: the cardboard box does as well

The story is about a stolen gem which the thief hides in the crop of a goose which is eaten at Christmas.

In "A Study in Scarlet", it was his left shoulder. In "The Sign of the Four", it was mentioned that his leg gave him trouble during inclement weather becasue it had been shot and it gave him a limp. In other stories, it was only mentioned that he had been shot but not where the injury was.

Sherlock Holmes employed deductive reasoning not only in the cases he was working on but in his everyday life. He would gather all the facts and blend his knowledge of science, medicine, literature and psychology to arrive at a conclusion. If it was not the right conclusion he would use this to grow closer to the most obvious outcome (process of elimination).

It is during the case Watson chronicled as "The 'Gloria Scott' " that Holmes first thought of being a detective. The exact date is not known, but most scholars agree it was the mid to late 1870's.

Dr. Roylott was bitten by the "speckled band" which was the snake that he owned

The exact date is unclear, but most scholars agree with the text that says: "It was early in April, in the year [18]83." -- John H. Watson, 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band'

The Red-headed league was dissolved because they have already finished digging the tunnel in the Bank. They no longer needed Wilson to stay in the office to disguise John Clay's absence while he was off digging the tunnel.
The red headed league was only a distraction to get Mr.Wilson away from his pawnshop so that the thieves could dig the hole. After the hole was dug, there was no need for the red headed league so they closed it

Referring to the original story's authored by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes sported a brain capable of arguably the most astounding deductions of any fictional detective in the history of controversial media. He made minute observations which he later transformed into facts.

Sherlock Holmes was unfortunately addicted to cocaine and was a heavy tobacco smoker. Sherlock Holmes had no interest for politics, astronomy or geology. He lacked trust for woman and was not interested in relationships with them.

If you are talking about the stick belonging to Dr. Mortimer in The Hound of the Baskervilles, he made several brilliant deductions:

1. He deduced that Dr. Mortimer served in the Charing Cross Hospital, as on the stick the following is inscribed: 'friends of the C.C.H'. This is proved right when they check in Watson's medical directory.

2. He deduced Dr. Mortimer left Charing Cross Hospital from the date on the stick.

3. He deduced Dr. Mortimer was either a house-surgeon or a house-physician because a well-established staff physician would not likely leave the hospital.

4. He deduced that Dr. Mortimer's dog was larger than a terrier and smaller than a mastiff by closely examining the space between the teeth mark on the stick.

5. He surmised "there emerges a young fellow under thirty, amiable, unambitious, absent-minded . . ."

Sherlock Holmes has quite a few interests apart from the obvious mystery solving. He plays the violin, he enjoys smoking a pipe (and has a compendious knowledge of different types of tobacco ash), He likes to perform chemical experiments, he is a keen boxer and fencer, he took up the beekeeping when he retired, and has always had an interest in many topics including the Polyphonic Motets of Lassus, miracle plays, mediaeval pottery, Stradivarius, violins, the Buddhism of Ceylon, and the warships of the future.

He kept a collection of agony column clippings and -- what he called -- an index of biographies, about anyone and everyone of note, he must have been a voracious reader to be so well versed in the quotes and languages he used on several occasions.

Sherlock Holmes moved into 221B Baker Street shortly after meeting John Watson. They were introduced by a man that knew both of them were looking for a roommate to share the expense. Holmes lived there from 1881 until 1903.

Holmes solved the mystery cheerlessly.

Many different types. His favorite was not the calabash, as many people assume (it is never mentioned in the books) but rather the long stemmed briar pipe known as a Churchwarden. He is also mentioned using a clay pipe. The pipe he is most commonly depicted with, and that has become synonymous with his name, is however the Calabash.

He preferred to write historical novels. He didn't want Holmes to overshadow those, so he killed him.

Conan Doyle brought him back to life by having Sherlock survive the Reichenbach Falls confrontation, hence the continuing stories of Sherlock Holmes written in the Mystery genre.

Watch the end of the movie. Holmes explains everything to Watson and Morstan, showing how he pretended to be hanged, made Watson believe he was completely dead and broke out of his tomb. It's all very scientific and he takes them through it step by step with examples to boot.

In 1893 After seeing the magnificent Reichenbach Falls in the northern Swiss Alps Conan Doyle decided the place would make a worthy tomb for Sherlock Holmes.

The Adventure of the Final Problem was published in Dec 1893 in The Strand magazine. People were so upset that many thousands cancelled their subscription to the magazine.

In 1901 Sherlock Holmes reappeared in The Hound of the Baskervilles. However it clear that Holmes was not alive. This story took place before the incident at Reichenbach Falls.

Later Holmes really was brought back to life in 'The Adventure of the Empty House' published in 1903.

So he never really 'died'

In 1893 he would have been 39 years old

Sherlock Holmes was in four novels and 56 short stories. The first two short novels appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887 and Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. All of the following stories were printed in The Strand Magazine.

Dr. Grimesby Roylott trains his snake to climb down a false bell pull to bit Julia Stoner in her sleep. So, while the snake's poison kills Julia Stoner, it is widely held that Dr. Roylott is her murderer.

-Major Spoiler-

At the end of the story, Holmes remarks that he feels no guilt for HIS responsibility in turning the snake on Dr. Roylott. This epitomizes the notion in detective fiction that poetic justice is justice. (Roylott dies at the wrong end of his own tactics)

Sir Charles Baskerville and Selden, an escaped convict who is killed by mistake because the murderer thinks he is Sir Henry Baskerville.

If you believe the curse, Hugo Baskerville (circa 1650) and the maiden he kidnapped are also victims.