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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. Referring to himself as a " consulting detective " in his stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs ...
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 62 stories of Sherlock Holmes published between 1887 and 1927. The 62 stories includes 4 novels and 58 short stories.
- 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...
Jul 19, 2024 · Arthur Conan Doyle (born May 22, 1859, Edinburgh, Scotland—died July 7, 1930, Crowborough, Sussex, England) was a Scottish writer best known for his creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes—one of the most vivid and enduring characters in English fiction.
Jun 6, 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.
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- Claiming that Sherlock Holmes distracted him “from better things,” Arthur Conan Doyle in 1893 famously attempted to kill him off in the story “The...
- Sherlock Holmes’s greatest nemesis is Professor James Moriarty whom Holmes considers the “Napoleon of Crime.” The character of Professor Moriarty r...
- Sherlock Holmes never marries anyone in Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories. The only woman whom Holmes ever holds in high regard is Irene Adler—...
He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction. Doyle was a prolific writer.
Explore the works of the fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Find ratings, reviews, editions, and summaries of the novels and short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson.
