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  1. Sherlock Holmes (/ ˈ ʃ ɜːr l ɒ k ˈ h oʊ m z /) is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.

    • Motivation
    • Methods
    • Disguises
    • Income
    • Failures
    • Relationship with Police

    Holmes had a dual nature (REDH, 350). Nothing could exceed his energy when the working fit was upon him; but now and again a reaction would seize him, and for days on end he would lie upon the sofa in the sitting-room, hardly uttering a word or moving a muscle from morning to night (STUD, 192). He never fell tired by work, though idleness exhausted...

    Sherlock Holmes said (SIGN, 74) the 3 qualities necessary to the ideal detective are: 1. Observation 2. Deduction 3. Knowledge

    Holmes would have made an actor, and a rare one (SIGN, 1883). His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime (SCAN 427, MAZA 238). He had the thoroughness of the true artist (DYIN, 535). He had a...

    Holmes worked rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth (SPEC, 1). Like all great artists, he lived for his art's sake, and, save in the case of the Duke of Holdernesse, he seldom claimed any large reward for his inestimable services (BLAC, 2). His professional charges were upon a fixed scale, and he did not vary them, save ...

    Blunders was a more common occurrence than anyone would think who only knew him through the Watson's memoirs (SILV, 34). In 1887, Holmes confessed he has been beaten four times: three times by men and once by a woman (FIVE, 48). During the long period of continuous work, some cases have baffled Holmes' analytical skill (FIVE 3), a few unavoidable f...

    He often left credit to the police in his cases: 1. Jones gets the credit [..] there still remains the cocaine-bottle. (SIGN, 2842) 2. Lestrade [..] To you, and to you only, belongs the credit of the remarkable arrest which you have effected. (EMPT, 369) 3. 'Out of my last fifty-three cases my name has only appeared in four, and the police have had...

  2. Jerry Sherlock is an American film and theater producer and educator known for such films as The Hunt for Red October. [1] He was also the founder of the New York Film Academy School of Film and Acting.

  3. 11 April 1994. (1994-04-11) Sherlock Holmes is the overall title given to the series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by the British television company Granada Television between 24 April 1984 and 11 April 1994. Of the 60 Holmes stories written by Doyle, 43 were adapted in the series, spanning 36 one-hour episodes and five feature-length ...

  4. The "Dictionary" proper, organised in the classic A-Z way, is accompanied by an academic critical apparatus of the highest interest, the most innovative element being the 13-page "Introduction" which strives to discover and explain why Sherlock Holmes "has transcended his stories and taken on a life of its own" (2).

  5. Definition. 1 : the process of exact thinking : reasoning 2 : a reasoned train of thought. About the Word. Sherlock Holmes was the ultimate logical reasoner in pop culture until Mr. Spock came along. When the first of the Sherlock Holmes films starring Robert Downey, Jr. was released, a form of ratiocination was used in several of the reviews.

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