Sherlock Holmes

It's written in one of Arthur Conan Doyle's bibliographies. According to that text, it says that Doyle got bored and sick of Holmes (though I can't think how anybody could be sick of Holmes) and killed him off in the Reichenbach Falls during his fight with Moriarty.

Arthur Conan Doyle tried to kill off Sherlock Holmes when he was writing the original stories in Strand magazine, but public pressure forced him to revive Holmes for more stories.

Wanting to devote more time to his historical novels, Conan Doyle killed off Holmes in "The Final Problem" which was printed in 1893. He resisted Holmes`resurrection for 8 years until he wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901. However, Hound was set a a time before Holmes``death`at Reichenbach Falls. His survival is revealed in "The Adventure of the Empty House".

Sherlock Holmes

Dr. John H. Watson

Mrs. Watson

Mary Jane (Watson's servant)

Irene Adler

John (Adler's coachman)

King of Bohemia

Clotilde Lothman Von Sax-Meningen

King of Scandinavia

Godfrey Norton

Mrs. Turner

various unnamed Londoners

vncm j .jb

In 'The Musgrave Ritual,' Holmes says, "When I first came up to London I had rooms in Montague Street," and in 'The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter,' Holmes said, "My ancestors were country squires." It seems, from these statements, very likely that Holmes came from one of the provinces of England outside of London.

{| |- | Sherlock Holmes becomes good friends with Dr. John Watson. They were introduced by a mutual friend and shared a flat together. Watson chronicled Holmes' adventures, many that he participated in. |}

The last published story was 'The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place,' which appeared in 1927. In it, Holmes uncovers the scheme of a man who delays reporting of the death of his benefactor in order to retain his position and fortune. The last chronological story was 'His Last Bow,' published in 1917, in which Holmes and Watson go undercover before the beginning of World War I. In 'The Final Problem,' published in 1893, Holmes was supposedly killed by falling into the Reichenbach Falls though the reader later learns that he was still alive and well.

It means "All unknown things for great is/are", or, less literally, "Everything unknown is considered great."

I'm not sure if "est" belongs there or not; most citations of the phrase I'm aware of don't have it and just end after "magnifico".

Well, kind of, Conon Doyle got the idea for the story off of a real English families so called 'curse' and decided to make it a Holmes story. But no, all the events recorded in this epistle are fictitious, aside from the original idea. Despite this fact, one still feels a chill, or turns to look behind ones back as they walk into the night, while reading this book, and even a single dog bark on a dark night came make one feel as if it is real. All this is the mark of a very talented writer, Sir Arthur Conon Doyle, or is it, Dr. John H. Watson? Hum! I wonder? ;)

The mysterious ones ;)

Sherlock was seldom interested in normal police business. He had a very active mind and he liked to use it to solve those cases that seemed impossible to figure out, or very unusual situations.

I know right

There are HUNDREDS of parodies, pastiches, burlesques, travesties, satires, and now fanfiction of Sherlock Holmes not written by Conan Doyle. See the link below.

One of the more famous is a story written by an out of work carpenter named Arthur Whitaker who sent his story to Conan Doyle in hopes of a collaboration. Conan Doyle paid a sum of money for the typewritten manuscript and filed it away then in the 1940's long after Conan Doyle's death it was discovered and published as an actual Sherlock Holmes story. The truth was discovered, and apology printed, but the story remains as a famous pastiche of the great detective.

Well if you want an honest answer it's going to have to be a spoiler. So if you don't want a spoiler don't read any farther... (The murderer, Stapleton, had a dog which he pretended was a ghostly dog from an old fairytale concerning the Baskerville family. Sherlock shot it in the head at the climax of the story and killed it instantly.) Dr. Mortimer's spaniel also dies.

There's the story that he says "Elementary, my dear Watson" when he never even utters those words. There's the myth that he always wears a deerstalker hat and Inverness cape, but, in the original stories, he is only shown in those clothes in two stories requiring travel. Then there's the stereotype that Watson is a short, fat, old man. But he's not that much older than Sherlock Holmes, and he was actually an army doctor, which actually requires him to be quite fit. He's better described as "stocky".

Rodger Baskerville was the youngest of three brothers: Charles, a second brother who fathered Henry Baskerville, and Rodger himself. He was the spitting image of Hugo Baskerville, the man who's actions (circa 1650) and fate created the legend of their family. Known as the black sheep of the family, Rodger gained a bad reputation in England and left for Central America where he died in 1876 of yellow fever. Late in the story the reader learns that he had a son also named Rodger Baskerville.

There is a third Rodger Baskerville, the son of the Hugo Baskerville who wrote the 'curse' manuscript dated 1742.

Laura needed financial help with divorcing her husband, who was an artist. She despised him for one reason or another- I believe he either ran off or he didn't support the family...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was created in 1892.

The bed was clamped to the floor, the bell-pull was little more than a rope hanging down to the bed, and the ventilator (near the bell-pull) only communicated between that room and Dr. Roylott's bedroom.

Hats were worn for dress occasions for many years and president wore them .

Lincoln was noted for his tall stove-pipe hat. Eisenhower wore a Homberg to his inauguration instead of the more traditional top hat, but Kennedy's inauguration, he and Eisenhower both wore the silk tophats. Reagan wore a cowboy hat on his ranch.

Sir Charles Baskerville, from Dartmoor in Devon, England, has died, apparently from a heart attack.

His heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, has travelled from Canada to take up his inheritance arriving first in London.

Sir Charles' friend, Dr. Mortimer has come to London to meet Sir Henry and while he is there asks for Sherlock Holmes' help as he is suspicious about the death of Sir Charles and fears for the safety of Sir Henry.

There is, supposedly, a curse on the Baskerville family under whicha a monstrous hound has attacked and killed male members of the family for generations.

Dr. Mortimer is unwilling to go to the official police with such a bizarre story...

He curled himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird.

Irene Adler, 'The Woman,' was a character in 'A Scandal in Bohemia,' the only woman to ever outsmart the great detective.

She was very beautiful singer, who had once been in a relationship with the king of Bohemia (or something like that). She had in her posession a photo depicting the two together, which was disturbing now that the king intended to marry another woman. He asked Sherlock to retrieve the photograph.

Irene wasn't fooled by Sherlock's tricks (he even staged a fire alarm) but in the end married someone else and left a message, promising to keep the incriminating photo hidden. She also left behind a photo of herself, which Sherlock kept in his files.

Sherlock Holmes has an estimated IQ of around 190 In a book called The Intelligence of Sherlock Holmes and other Three-pipe Problems, John Radford attempts to calculate Sherlocks’s IQ by using three different methods. He concluded that his IQ is 190.

Some people seem to confuse the entire series of Sherlock Holmes stories with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes contains the first 12 short stories of the 56 total short stories and 4 novels, and it contains about 105,000 words.

Contents:

A Scandal in Bohemia

The Red-Headed League

A Case of Identity

The Boscombe Valley Mystery

The Five Orange Pips

The Man with the Twisted Lip

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

The Adventure of the Speckled Band

The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb

The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

A Study in Scarlet was the novel. There were also several dozen short stories in which he was the main character.

'The Sign of Four', 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', and 'The Valley of Fear' were also novels. Four in all by Conan Doyle.