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- 1. an extremely perceptive private detective in stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Sherlock Holmes (/ ˈ ʃ ɜːr l ɒ k ˈ h oʊ m z /) is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Feb 17, 2024 · Sherlock Holmes, fictional character created by the Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The prototype for the modern mastermind detective, Holmes first appeared in Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet, published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual of 1887.
- Physical Appearance
- His Clothing
- Smoking Habits
- Physical Condition
- His Personality
- Convictions
Tall & Gaunt 1. He measured 6 feet (3STU, 470) or over 6 feet but he was so lean that he seemed even taller. (STUD, 196) 2. He had a tall, gaunt figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. (BOSC, 19) 3. He had a tall, austere figure (HOUN, 1188), a tall lean figure. (VALL, 1577) 4. He was a tal...
He had that cat-like love of personal cleanliness (HOUN, 2772). He affected a certain quiet primness of dress (MUSG, 1). He usually wear a tweed suit or frock-coat, and occasionally an ulster (STUD, 965). In private, he wear a mouse-coloured dressing-gown (EMPT, 399), a purple one (BLUE, 1) and sometimes a blue one (TWIS, 400). In the country, he h...
Holmes smoked cigars, cigarettes, and of course, pipes. Three specific pipes are mentioned: 1. Most often, he smoked his old black pipe (CREE, 9), the old and oily black clay pipe (IDEN, 205) when in meditative mood (SOLI, 137). 2. He smoked occasionally an old briar-root pipe. (SIGN, 63) 3. He smoked a cherrywood in a disputatious mood. (COPP, 4) ...
Sherlock Holmes was a man who seldom took exercise for exercise's sake. Few men were capable of greater muscular effort, and he was undoubtedly one of the finest boxers of his weight; but he looked upon aimless bodily exertion as a waste of energy, and he seldom bestirred himself save where there was some professional object to be served. Then he w...
Watson described him as an automaton, a calculating machine with something positively inhuman in him (SIGN). Sometimes with a face of that Red Indian composure which had made so many regard him as a machine rather than a man (CROO, NAVA). He loved above all things precision and concentration of thought (SOLI). Watson often refers to his restlessnes...
Philosophy
Sherlock Holmes quotes about Fate: 1. Why does Fate play such tricks with poor helpless worms? (BOSC, 623) 2. The ways of Fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest. (VEIL, 274) 3. Is not all life pathetic and futile? We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow - misery. (RETI, 17) 4. What is the meaning of it, Watson? What object is served by this circle of misery and viole...
Religion
1. Holmes agreed with anti-christian ideas of Winwood Reade when he recommend to read the Martyrdom of Man (SIGN, 338). 2. He agreed with Richter quoting the writer: the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness. (SIGN, 1381) 3. He refused to believe in supernatural. (DEVI, HOUN, SUSS) 4. He read and quoted Darwin. (STUD, 850) 5. He said: There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reas...
Sep 21, 2022 · Feature. Sherlock Holmes: The History of the Mystery. The greatest detective came about almost by accident — and his creator came to hate him. Learn his story, and then watch his full earliest adventures here. by Melinda Caric 9/21/2022. Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. (Universal Studios)
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Jun 7, 2017 · 1. The Hound of the Baskervilles. Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound! Of the four novel-length adventures Conan Doyle penned about Sherlock Holmes, this is the most satisfying (and the best-known), and the one novel that we’ve included on this list of Sherlock Holmes’s best cases.
Jan 6, 2016 · Sherlock Holmes’ avid readers helped to create the very modern practice of fandom. Interestingly enough, Holmes’ intense following continues to this day, spawning endless reimaginings, such as ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a collection of 12 Sherlock Holmes tales, previously published in monthly installments in The Strand Magazine between July 1891 and June 1892, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published in 1892.