Sherlock Holmes

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.

No, they all originated in the imagination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. However, occasionally Holmes gives reference to some famous cases that were solved in real life, such as the cases of Palmer and Pritchard.

They both solve crime but they're different people made by different people. Sherlock Holmes was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Miss Marple was created by Agatha Christie. Holmes solved cases mostly by relying on the evidence he gathered. Miss Marple solved her cases by understanding the things people do and human nature.

John Watson.

Jabez Wilson was a white man with bright orange/red hair. He was very portly (obese, fat)

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"a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman, with fiery red hair" with "small, fat-encircled eyes"; "portly"

In The Hounds of the Baskervilles, the lonely figure that Watson sees looking over the moors is Sherlock Holmes. At the time, Watson did not realize it was Holmes because he thought Holmes was still in London.

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Holmes vs. Dr. Roylott: Dr. Roylott stepped back swiftly forward, seized the poker, and it into curve with his huge brown hands, then Holmesstraightened it out again.

Helen vs. Dr. Roylott: Dr. Roylott killed Julia and he wants to kill Helen.

Dr. Roylott vs. Nature: Roylott shut himself up in his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper approaching to mania has been hereditary in Roylott.

". . . Recognizing, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe -'

_____'Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?' asked Holmes, with some asperity.

_____'To the man of precisely scientific mind the work of Monsieur Bertillon must always appeal strongly.'

_____'Then had you not better consult him?'

_____'I said, sir, to the precisely scientific mind. But as a practical man of affairs it is acknowledged that you stand alone. I trust, sir, that I have not inadvertently -'

_____'Just a little,' said Holmes.

-- Dr. Mortimer and Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Chapter 1)

Study in Scarlet, Sign of Four, and The Hound of the Baskervilles

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Those are the first 3 Sherlock Holmes novels, but the first 3 overall Conan Doyle novels are:

A Study in Scarlet (1887)

Micah Clarke (1889)

The Mystery of Cloomber (1889)

Beryl Stapleton

Nothing. The rope was assumed to be a bell pull to call a servant to come to the room; but Holmes noticed that the rope was not attached to a wire that would have run along the walls to the servants' quarters.

The rope was thus a clue, because the person in the bed thought she could summon help but she could not.

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