Sherlock Holmes

"It's a-lemon-tree, my dear Watson." ;)

He used the basic code breaking technique called Frequency Analysis. It works well for substitution cyphers such as the dancing men.

He aka Vincent Spaulding who planned a bank robbery in "The Red Headed League." He is the main "bad" character in this story.

Sir Charles Baskerville seemed to have an excellent reputation after his death. He helped Laura Lyons when she could get no help from her own father. The two Hugos lived centuries earlier. The Hugo from the seventeenth century allegedly started the curse of the Baskervilles by kidnapping a maiden and winding up dead on the moor nearby his captive. The Hugo from the eighteenth century wrote the curse of the Baskervilles document in an apparent attempt to rectify the family reputation. These facts are most of what we know about the three men.

Holmes and Watson walked from 221B Baker Street to the Alpha Inn in Bloomsbury on a street that runs down into Holborn (probably about half an hour). To do so, they had to cross over Tottenham Court Road, which was where the goose and hat were found. They next walked to Covent Garden Market (another 10 minutes). They were about to cross the Thames to visit Mrs. Oakshott in the Brixton Road probably in a cab when a distraction showed up in the form of the man Holmes really wanted to talk to.

This isn't anything official, but I've made a few observations of the methods of popular detectives. Here goes: Firstly, study the history and methods of crime. This not only helps in criminal cases, but helps you distinguish between those that are not of criminal nature. All those loosely related to crime and detection should be read leisurely in your spare time, often accompanied with smoking tobacco or playing the violin (optional). 1. Observe and verbalize observations. Observations may be accumulated at the scene, or by other means that don't require a presence (newspaper, police reports, security footage, etc.) 2. Draw logical conclusions from these observations. 3. Investigate discrepancies and holes that exist in the case based on the observations and conclusions. —3b. Experiment, explore, and/or discover an explanation for said discrepancies. —3c. Continue gathering observations to fill in the holes. This may take some creative thought in order to know where to look for clues (e.g. Tape residue on an object out of the way might require a visualization of a makeshift mechanism before looking there.) 4. If the case is criminal in nature, compile a list of suspects and begin to eliminate them based on the facts of the case. (e.g. "The killer is left-handed, but Colonel Mustard is right-handed." Colonel Mustard is now eliminated.) 5. (optional) Hide your epiphanies/final conclusions from everyone until the Jimmy Kudo/Shinichi Kudou (Case Closed) uses a similar method, and seems only to revolve around death, namely murder and attempted murder: Once you have a suspect or list of suspects, begin. 1. Begin with motive. If there is no apparent motive, move on to: 2. Means and opportunity. Did they have the means to commit the crime? The opportunity? —This entails discovering their methods. This is where the fabled "keen eye for detail" is especially important. 3. Investigate the alibi. People will try to deceive others by: —Distorting time (e.g. changing the clocks in a location to change the perception of time). —Distorting place (e.g. using a mechanism to kill/commit the crime while they are elsewhere). 4. Gather evidence of the crime. Enough to convict, or at the very least, to convince a jury of guilt. 5. (optional) Gather everybody in a room and while you have their attention and either A) dramatically declare who the killer is and, after they've recovered from the shock, proceed to tear down their alibi with the evidence you've accumulated, or B) give a detailed explanation of what happened and how it all went down, and then proceed to step A. —SageRiku —myspace/sagerikumusic

The climax of the story would probably be when the hound lurks from the shadows to chase Sir Henry Baskerville.

Hate is far to strong of a word to use in this scenario. Sherlock Holmes never truly "hated" the Scotland Yard. However, he did dislike working with them because his methods were not compatible with those of the Scotland Yard. Often working with a member of the yard hampered Holmes' abilities to solve the case and catch the perpetrator to his satisfaction.

They were the inventors of the first electric burglar alarm in 1858.

___"You saw the ventilator, too?"

___"Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a rat could hardly pass through."

___"I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to Stoke Moran."

___"My dear Holmes!"

___"Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that suggests at once that there must be a communication between the two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator."

Sherlock Holmes & Dr. John H. Watson, MD -- 'Adventure of the Speckled Band'

Sherlock Holmes' mum is never mentioned in the stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Links below for the entire script and a plot summary.

The assistant whose name is Vincent Spaulding encourages his boss to apply to a foundation established to promote the interests of redheaded men which is actually a ruse so that he can rob the bank behind the pawnbroker shop.

"Sherlock Holmes" (2009)

Rachel McAdams 'Irene Adler'

Geraldine James 'Mrs. Hudson'

Kelly Reilly 'Mary Morstan'

Kylie Hutchinson 'Maid'

Bronagh Gallagher 'Palm Reader'

Amanda Grace Johnson 'Young Woman Sacrifice'

Sherlock Holmes lived with his flatmate and friend Dr. Watson and their landlady Mrs. Hudson lived in the same building.

The public outcry when Conan Doyle had Holmes killed was massive and perhaps unexpected. He must have had constant requests to bring Holmes back during the near decade he let Holmes lay. He wrote a few homages to Holmes during that time then he even published 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' that was told in the past tense, but none of it succeeded in appeasing the public. He reluctantly succumbed to the pressure and wrote an additional 32 short stories and a novel with Sherlock Holmes as the main character, but it was apparent that Conan Doyle's heart was not completely into the later stories.

The engineer, Victor Hatherley, said of the machine "The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a crust of metallic deposit all over it."

Sherlock Holmes believed: "They are coiners [makers of counterfeit coins] on a large scale, and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the place of silver.", and his theory was proven likely as "Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored in an outhouse.", and Inspector Bradstreetsaid that the police had traced a gang to the areawho "have been turning out half-crowns by the thousand".

You must mean Dr. Mortimer from 'The Hound of the Baskervilles.' He was amiable because he received a testimonial and a walking-stick as a gift likely from the Charing Cross Hospital. He was unambitious because he abandoned a London career for the country. He was absent-minded because he left said walking-stick and not his visiting-card behind after waiting an hour on his previous visit to 221b Baker Street.

"The Last Bow" and "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone"

The part-time job given to Jabez Wilson by the Red-Headed League, namely to copy out the Encyclopaedia Britannica, was a complete waste of time. The criminals' aim in all of this was only to get him out of his pawnshop from 10:00 to 14:00 each weekday.

While Wilson was occupied in copying out all things concerned with the letter A, the criminals dug a tunnel connecting his cellar to the cellar of the City and Suburban Bank, in order to steal "30,000 napoleons from the Bank of France" that were being kept in the cellar.

The main criminal was John Clay, "the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger." His accomplice was the man calling himself Duncan Ross who recruited Jabez Wilson. Ross had bright red hair, as did Wilson, which is what first suggested the idea of the Red-Headed League to the criminals. John Clay, calling himself Vincent Spaulding, got himself hired as Wilson's assistant in order to manipulate him into taking the job.

Wilson only consulted Sherlock Holmes after his employment abruptly ended and the Red-Headed League dissolved (when the tunnel was complete). He wanted to track them down, hoping to keep his high-paying job. Holmes worked out the real seriousness of the situation and laid a trap to catch the criminals in the act of breaking into the bank through the cellar floor.

I'm guessing you're referring to the Sherlock Holmes previews... I think he's saying "cracked ribs".

Sherlock Holmes

Stamford was a newly-graduated doctor ("dresser") who assisted Dr. Watson at Saint Bartholomew's Hospital who also introduced Dr. Watson to Sherlock Holmes at that same hospital at the beginning of 'A Study in Scarlet.' He then disappears into the oblivion of literature.

There is also Archie Stamford, the forger, mentioned in 'The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist.'