Sherlock Holmes

Of course he is. He can tell what job you do by your left hand, your personalities, your habits, your feelings. He know's how every individual person thinks, science, deduction, codes, and even though he is a fictional character, I still have learnt a lot from him.

London

Holmes's birthday is generally accepted as January 6th 1854. Dr Watson first met Holmes in late 1880 or early 1881, so Holmes would have been 27. From there on we get slight mentions to aging here and there but never an exact age.

In 'The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone' there is a character named Count Negretto Sylvius, and negre in Italian means black while silvi in Latin means woods.

A sovereign was a gold coin worth one pound (20 shillings). The purchasing power of one pound in Holmes's time, about 1895, was approximately the same as $100 US today. Chris Redmond www.sherlockian.net

It never really says...good question. I haven't seen much of him but from what I gather he was the good guy.

Sherlock Homes was a man. And, just make sure you know that Sherlock Holmes was not real life detective, only a well thought of character in a book. Any Human on Planet Earth could very well become as clever and mischievous as Sherlock Holmes, if only they would learn to use their full brain capacity....lol, which I'm sure is not possible for the human race.

He was known to use a gun on occasion. Normally he let Watson do the gun work. Holmes decorated the wall of their flat in 221B Baker Street with a VR in honour of Queen Victoria (Victoria Regina) that he shot into the wall.

In The Sign of the Four, Holmes and Watson both fired at the dwarf and one or the other of them hit and caused him to die.

In the most famous of the Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Holmes and Watson both fired at the hound and one or the other hit it, but Holmes outran Watson and killed off the giant dog by emptying "five barrels of his revolver" into it at close range.

Cleverness and Logic

Sherlock Holmes carefully analysis every detail to reach a satisfying conclusion. He establishes connections between incidents and prior knowledge and makes logical assumptions.

Justice and Revenge

Sherlock Holmes was deeply shaken by the unexpected death of John Openshaw and vows to seek revenge and justice. He solves the crime and notifies the local police (justice) but also sends five orange pips to the Captain Calhoun for personal matters because he feels he is partially responsible for John's death (revenge)

From the enterance take a right behind the bar where gob the ghoul is standing.

It's hard to say. Probably underestimating Holmes and believing that his trick with the poker would scare him off. Miss Stonor's wedding was far enough off that Dr. Roylott could have postponed his efforts until Holmes would lose interest. Holmes would not have stayed at the local pub indefinitely. Holmes might have foiled his plans in the short term but he was ingenious enough to figure out something in the long term.

No. They used what was known as a dark lantern (aka bull's-eye) which had a shutter to hide the internal flame.

Mrs. Hudson first appears at the end of the first chapter of 'The Sign of Four.' The housekeeper in 'A Scandal in Bohemia' is called Mrs. Turner, but Mrs. Hudson returns by name in 'The Five Orange Pips.'

No published reference to such a plant exists, nor do any experts of the botanical know of such a plant. I'm afraid this radix pedis diaboli, or devil's foot root, is but a figment of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

1. The antagonist has an accomplice essential to the crime
2. The antagonist and the protagonist meet before the climax
3. The crime is hidden until the climax

The Boscombe Valley Mystery

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet

The Adventure of the Naval Treaty

The Adventure of the Priory School

The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton

The Adventure of the Abbey Grange

The Adventure of the Second Stain

The Adventure of the Devil's Foot Root

The Adventure of the Three Gables

The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

Let us just say Sherlock Holmes used the axiom 'No harm, no foul' quite a bit.

There are also more stories with no criminal, like 'A Case of Identity.'

In a couple of stories, justice presumably prevailed, like 'The Five Orange Pips,' 'The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter,' and 'The Adventure of Lady Frances Carfax.'

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Moriarty were bitter enemies.

The Black Mariah is the name referring to a horse drawn carriage dating back to the early 1900's. The wagon doubled as a hearse or an ambulance.

I don't believe that the book specifies. However, a cane or walking stick was a common accessory for all gentlemen in the Victorian Era, it would have been unusual for him not to have one. Add in the fact that he may have been wounded in the leg (or possibly the shoulder), it would have been something he may have needed on occasion.

From the ending of 'A Study In Scarlet':

[Watson reads from the newspaper] '. . . It is an open secret that the credit of this smart capture belongs entirely to the well-known Scotland Yard officials, Messrs Lestrade and Gregson. The man was apprehended, it appears, in the rooms of a certain Mr Sherlock Holmes, who has himself, as an amateur, shown some talent in the detective line, and who, with such instructors, may hope in time to attain to some degree of their skill. It is expected that a testimonial of some sort will be presented to the two officers as a fitting recognition of their services.'

___'Didn't I tell you so when we started?' cried Sherlock Holmes with a laugh. 'That's the result of all our Study in Scarlet: to get them a testimonial!'

___'Never mind,' I answered; 'I have all the facts in my journal, and the public shall know them. In the meantime you must make yourself contented by the consciousness of success, like the Roman miser -

' "Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplar in arca." '

The Latin quote comes from, Horace, Book 1, Satire 1, and it means:

"The public hisses at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and simultaneously contemplate the money in my chest."

I think about a year or two

It is the residence of the Stapleton's in 'The Hound of the Baskervilles.'

He was extremely good at disguise. He was easily able to fool Watson when he wanted to. He often wandered around London learning things and following people. He was the consummate actor and was even able to fool Watson and Culverton Smith into thinking he was dying.

You probably mean 'The Adventure of the Creeping Man,' which includes a wolf-hound named Roy who is said to have attacked his owner, twice.