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The Scientific Sherlock Holmes

Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics

One of the most popular and widely known characters in all of fiction, Sherlock Holmes has an enduring appeal based largely on his uncanny ability to make the most remarkable deductions from the most mundane facts. The very first words that Sherlock Holmes ever says to Dr. Watson are, "How are you? You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive." Watson responds, "How on earth did you know that?" And so a crime-solving legend is born. In The Scientific Sherlock Holmes, James O'Brien provides an in-depth look at Holmes's use of science in his investigations. Indeed, one reason for Holmes's appeal is his frequent use of the scientific method and the vast scientific knowledge which he drew upon to solve mysteries. For instance, in heart of the book, the author reveals that Holmes was a pioneer of forensic science, making use of fingerprinting well before Scotland Yard itself had adopted the method. One of the more appealing aspects of the book is how the author includes real-world background on topics such as handwriting analysis, describing how it was used to capture the New York Zodiac killer and to clinch the case against the Lindbergh baby kidnapper. Sherlock Holmes was knowledgeable about several sciences, most notably chemistry. Therefore the book takes a close look at Holmes the chemist and discusses, for example, chemical poisons such as carbon monoxide, chloroform, and Prussic acid (the historical name for hydrogen cyanide). The author also debunks Isaac Asimov's famous assertion that Holmes was a blundering chemist. In addition, the book discusses mathematics, physics, biology, astronomy, meteorology, and geology, always in the context of Holmes's exploits. Sherlock Holmes continues to fascinate millions of readers and movie goers alike. The Scientific Sherlock Holmes is a must-read for the legion of fans of this most beloved of all fictional detectives.

Sherlock Holmes is the most recognizable character in all of literature. The first
Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet (STUD), was published in 1887. Today,
over 125 years later, when a deerstalker hat is seen in a book, movie, TV ad, or
billboard, the public automatically thinks “Sherlock Holmes.” Old movies run on
television again and again. New movies are made with consistent regularity.
Plays are done all around the country and the world. Respectable presses
publish ...

Pursuing Sherlock Holmes

The influence of Sherlock Holmes can be found throughout the cultural landscape. ...From John Wayne to Macbeth, from the sultry moves of Madonna to the theories of Sigmund Freud, the stories about the greatest of detectives link to just about any subject of situation. -- Jacket copy.

The image of Sherlock Holmes in his rooms at 2218 Baker Street might include
any number of familiar features—the fireplace and armchairs, the Persian slipper
or violin, the jack-knifed correspondence, a gasogene, smoke drifting upward
from a pipe, the table for chemical experiments, the bow window—but a mental
picture of the man himself invariably has him lounging about in a dressing-gown.
The attire of Holmes out-of-doors has become embedded in the popular mind (
quite ...

Sherlock Holmes

The Game's Afoot

Once more, the game's afoot as Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street returns in twenty new adventures specially commissioned for Wordsworth's Mystery & Supernatural series. The celebrated detective, along with his friend and biographer, Dr Watson, investigate a variety of baffling mysteries that will delight fans of the famous sleuth.Striding through the foggy gas lit streets of London, Holmes tackles such cases as 'The Puzzle of the Green Skull', 'The Secret of the Brown Box', the conundrum of 'The Dragon of Lea Lane', as well as coming face to face once again with 'The Sussex Vampire'.We also learn what really happened at the Reichenbach Falls when Holmes had his fateful encounter with Professor Moriarty. David Stuart Davies, Denis O. Smith, Mark Valentine, Matthew Booth, M.J. Elliott and the other talented writers who have contributed to this collection have followed closely in the footsteps of Arthur Conan Doyle in creating a wonderful feast of Sherlockian entertainment.

The Adventure of the Haunted Showman CHRISTOPHER SEQUEIRA When I
look back at the enquiries my friend, Mr Sherlock Holmes, was asked to make in
the year 1897, I recall his complaint that European crime had become
unremarkable. Holmes claimed that villainy had largely slipped back into a
catalogue of brutal assaults and straightforward (if skilful) burglaries. He believed
the glory days of criminology had ended with the removal of Moriarty and Moran,
and the more recent ...

Sherlock Holmes in America

The world's greatest detective leaves his native shores and travels to the most dangerous land of all...America!

tis always a joy to meet an American,” declares Sherlock Holmes in “The
Adventure of the Noble Bachelor,” “for I am one of those who believe that the folly
of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent
our children from being some day citizens of the same worldwide country under a
flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.” It
should not come as a surprise, then, to find that the Sherlock Holmes stories are
fairly ...

The Sherlock Holmes Adventure

He turned up the light, filled and lit a pipe, and then turned to the note from Sherlock Holmes. It read: "Pitt-Inspector MacLeish paid me a visit this evening to discuss the particulars of a murder that occurred at Coldfall Lodge, Tetherdown. Mr. Artimus Weatherill was brutally murdered and property taken, including a fair amount in sovereigns. There are some particulars regarding this event that puzzle MacLeish and since I am returning to Glasgow in the morning to testify in the Seamus Walsh affair, I took the liberty of telling the Inspector you would look into it in my absence. If your appointments will give you the morning, MacLeish will be at Coldfell Lodge at seven o'clock. Best regards, Holmes" Enter Joshua Pitt, inquiry agent, chess playing opponent of Dr. Watson, and one-time Baker Street Irregular who has set up shop little more than a block away on Baker Street. A young man in his late twenties, he is rarely without a smoking pipe at hand, a good blend of tobacco, and prefers strong Assam tea and Highland whiskey. His cases are as much adventure as mystery, and the reader is invited along for the ride, in a hansom, of course.

He turned up the light, filled and lit a pipe, and then turned to the note from Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Complete Set 4)

A collection of gripping cases that culminates in the most shocking of all - the notorious, fatal encounter between Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. 'He is the Napoleon of Crime...He is the organiser of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city'. A man like Sherlock Holmes has many enemies. Violent murderers, deviant villains, ghosts of old loves, blackmailers and poisonous scribes, to to name but a few. But none are so deadly, so powerful, as Professor Moriarty. Moriarty - the only man who can compete with Holmes' genius. The only man who can, perhaps, ultimately defeat the great detective ...

was some time before the health of my friend, Mr Sherlock Holmes, recovered
from the strain caused by his immense exertions in the spring of '87. The whole
question of the Netherland-Sumatra Company and of the colossal schemes of
Baron Maupertuis is too recent in the minds of the public, and too intimately
concerned with politics and finance, to be a fitting subject for this series of
sketches. It led, however, in an indirect fashion to a singular and complex
problem, which gave my ...

Sherlock Holmes

The Biography

Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography blends what we already know of the great sleuth's career with carefully documented social history to answer the questions admirers have long puzzled over. Nick Rennison reveals for the first time Holmes's influence on the political events of late-nineteenth-century England and his connections to the British criminal underworld. It also brings to light his close friendships with key figures of the day, including Oscar Wilde and Sigmund Freud; and exposes the truth about his cocaine use.

Books Allen, Charles, Duel in the Snows: The True Story of the Younghusband
Mission to Lhasa, London: John Murray, 2006 Baring Gould, W. S., Sherlock
Holmes: A Biography of the World's First Consulting Detective, London: Rupert
HartDavis, 1962 Barnes, Alan, Sherlock Holmes on Screen: The Complete Film
and TV History (revised edition), London: Reynolds & Hearn, 2006 Bicknell,
Herman (trans.), Hafiz of Shiraz: Selections from his Poems, London: Trübner &
Co., 1875 ...

Sherlock Holmes

The Man Who Never Lived And Will Never Die

Ever since his creation, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled readers. Our perception of him and his faithful companion, Dr Watson, has been shaped by a long line of film, TV and theatre adaptations. This richly illustrated book, compiled by Alex Werner, Head of History Collections at the Museum of London, is an essential guide to the great fictional detective and his world. Using the museum's unrivalled collections of photographs, paintings and original artefacts, it illuminates the capital city that inspired the Sherlock Holmes stories, in particular its fogs, Hansom cabs, criminal underworld, famous landmarks and streets. Accompanying the landmark exhibition at the Museum of London, the first since 1951, this book explores how Arthur Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes has transcended literature and continues to attract audiences to this day. Authoritatively written by leading experts, headed by Sir David Cannadine, this thought-provoking companion sheds new light on the famous sleuth and reveals the truth behind the fiction, over 125 years after the first Sherlock Holmes story was written.

TROCADERO BALLROOM, 27 SEPTEMBER 1921. THE SCREEN HAS ALWAYS
loved Sherlock Holmes. To date there have been hundreds of Holmes film and
TV adaptations, to say nothing of scores of theatre plays and radio programmes
based on his exploits. As well as spanning media, the character has also crossed
continents; he is an internationally recognised name and a significant cultural
export. Recent big-screen outings, including Sherlock Holmes (2009) and
Sherlock ...

Sherlock Holmes by Gas-lamp

Highlights from the First Four Decades of the Baker Street Journal

Sherlock Holmes was still an undergraduate when Squire Trevor pointed out the direction of his future life's work, telling him that all the detectives of fact and of fancy would be children in your hands.His prediction was right on the mark: so it was then, and so it remains more than a century later. Never mind that Trevor's name wasn't really Trevor, or that Holmes hid the name of his university. Or perhaps you do mind, as so many have before you. It was such a like-minded group of people who got together in 1934 to found the world's first Sherlockian organization, The Baker Street Irregulars. With the end of the Second World War came the opportunity to found a means of publishing their studies in Sherlock Holmes and the Sherlockian world, The Baker Street Journal. Long the first place the inquirer should look for answers to Sherlockian puzzles or the posing of new ones, The Baker Street Journal still flourishes, both as a journal of record of Sherlockian activities in America and throughout the world, and as the premier publication devoted to the writings about the Writingsand to keeping green the memory of the world's first consulting detective. The practitioners of the game have at their best offered learned works that they have written with their tongues planted firmly in their cheeks. Their tone has ranged from mock-heroic through the archly chiding to the playful, in prose and verse or in combinations of the two. Sherlock Holmes by Gas-Lamp is the first time that the best of these writings has been gathered in one place. Some of the prominent players of the game have included such luminaries in various walks of life as Christopher Morley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, T. S. Eliot, Vincent Starrett, Elmer Davis, Harry S. Truman, Franklin P. Adams, and Ellery Queen.

by Edgar S. Rosenberger Was Sherlock Holmes religious? Offhand, no. He
smoked,1 drank,a swore,3 gambled,4 took dope,5 and pursued women of
dubious virtue6 — the last not, as every reader knows, on the common earthly
plane, but in the intellectual stratosphere in which he lived. He once took part in a
barroom brawl,7 once threw a man over a cliff,8 once threatened to horsewhip a
man,9 gave another a black eye,10 five times burgled a house," and once, with
the aid of ...