Sherlock Holmes

Not in the books, however, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did.

'A Study in Scarlet,' 'The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor,' 'The Adventure of the Yellow Face,' 'The Hound of the Baskervilles,' 'The Adventure of the Dancing Men,' 'The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge,' 'The Valley of Fear,' 'The Problem of Thor Bridge,' 'The Adventure of the Three Garridebs' and possibly others contain characters from America, but the representation is often inaccurate.

He was thinking that he was getting revenge on the proffesor at the university in Colorado.

When Holmes saw the return train ticket in Helen Stoner's hand, he could deduce that she came to London by train. When Holmes observed the fingermarks on Helen Stoner's arm, he was able to deduce that she must have been abused. When Holmes observed that the bed was clamped to the floor, he deduced that someone had a strong reason for keeping the bed in place. When Holmes observed the saucer of milk in Dr Roylott's room, he could deduce that there must be some type of creature inside the house.

Watson mentioned on more than one occasion that Sherlock Holmes' habit of staying up all night when on the hunt and his use of cocaine stressed his constitution to the brink. Then, his long bouts of depression laying about the house without moving a muscle could not have helped his condition. In 'The Reigate Squire (Puzzle)" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot Root," he is actually in the country recuperating his health when those cases came along. Despite the alternating stress and relaxation, I think Holmes' energy while on a case kept him in fairly good health in his younger years at least.

"Holmes stooped to the water jug, moistened his sponge, and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the prisoner's face." (Dr. Watson, 'The Man With the Twisted Lip) He then revealed that Hugh Boone and Neville St. Clair were, in fact, the same person.

That every mystery can be explained by natural cause.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

If you are referring to the cabinet photograph of Irene Adler, Holmes never did find that, but he did find a replacement photograph in the original hiding place when he went back to Briony Lodge the next morning.

Nearly all books of Sherlock Holmes are suppose to be interesting but "The Hound Of Baskerville" is suppose to be a classic unless you consider "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"where most of his mysteries are there.

John Clayton, 3, Turpey Street, the Borough.

The reader is left to speculate, and here are the clues:

1. Stamford presumably still works at St. Bartholomew Hospital (Bart's) where he and Watson met years earlier;

2. Holmes is working in Bart's chemical laboratory;

3. Holmes and Stamford probably bumped into each other a time or two.

The character of John H. Watson MD is intended to portray the everyman. He makes Sherlock Holmes seem more extraordinary while making our view into their world much more authentic.

Duncan Ross is an imaginary character in Sherlock Holmes' "The Red-Headed League." This name is given to Archie (no last name) to deceive Jabez Wilson into believing that Ezekiah Hopkins was recruiting red-headed men for nominal work at four British Pounds per week. The real purpose was to motivate Jabez Wilson to leave his own place of business for a predetermined time, while John Clay and Archie dug a tunnel through Mr. Wilson's place of business, going into the underground vault of the City and Suburban Bank, for a brilliant gold robbery.

". . . the fact that Miss Helen Stoner heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of those metal bars which secured the shutters falling back into their place, I think there is good ground to think that the mystery may be cleared along those lines." -- Sherlock Holmes

"Hum! my theory certainly presents some difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon the matter." -- Sherlock Holmes

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He places Monsieur Bertillon above Holmes as having a more precisely scientific mind.

Mycroft Holmes was one of the founders of the Diogenes Club, Whitehall. Diogenes of Sinope -- presumably for whom the club is named -- is perhaps the most famous ancient cynic philosopher.

It is enormous, coal black and flame seems to burst from its mouth, eyes, muzzle, hackles, and dewlap.

This is the account told to Watson by Holmes in 'The Adventure of the Empty House':

". . . I took to my heels, did ten miles over the mountains in the darkness, and a week later I found myself in Florence, with the certainty that no one in the world knew what had become of me.

I had only one confidant - my brother Mycroft. I owe you many apologies, my dear Watson, but it was all-important that it should be thought I was dead, and it is quite certain that you would not have written so convincing an account of my unhappy end had you not yourself thought that it was true. Several times during the last three years I have taken up my pen to write to you, but always I feared lest your affectionate regard for me should tempt you to some indiscretion which would betray my secret. For that reason I turned away from you this evening when you upset my books, for I was in danger at the time, and any show of surprise and emotion upon your part might have drawn attention to my identity and led to the most deplorable and irreparable results. As to Mycroft, I had to confide in him in order to obtain the money which I needed. The course of events in London did not run so well as I had hoped, for the trial of the Moriarty gang left two of its most dangerous members, my own most vindictive enemies, at liberty. I travelled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Lhassa and spending some days with the head Llama. You may have read of the remarkable explorations of a Norwegian named Sigerson, but I am sure that it never occurred to you that you were receiving news of your friend. I then passed through Persia, looked in at Mecca, and paid a short but interesting visit to the Khalifa at Khartoum, the results of which I have communicated to the Foreign Office. Returning to France, I spent some months in a research into the coal-tar derivatives, which I conducted in a laboratory at Montpelier, in the south of France. Having concluded this to my satisfaction, and learning that only one of my enemies was now left in London, I was about to return, when my movements were hastened by the news of this remarkable Park Lane Mystery, which not only appealed to me by its own merits, but which seemed to offer some most peculiar personal opportunities. I came over at once to London, called in my own person at Baker Street, threw Mrs. Hudson into violent hysterics, and found that Mycroft had preserved my rooms and my papers exactly as they had always been. So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock to-day I found myself in my old arm-chair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned.

But anyone who knows a bit of history knows that almost everyone of these places would have been off-limits to any European (or any westerner for that matter) even 120 years ago.

In "A Study in Scarlet," the murderer is Jefferson Hope, a cab driver seeking revenge for a past wrong committed against someone he loved. He's motivated by a desire for justice, and the case is eventually solved by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

If you are referring to the name itself in definition, it comes from an English surname meaning "shear lock," which originally refers to a person with closely cut hair.

James

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, never gave him a middle name, there for it is just

Sherlock Holmes.

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