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    Like A Professor: for Kids‚ Foster states that the blind needs a rescuer. Foster’s point is proven through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four‚ “The Adventure of the Speckled Band‚" and The Hound of the Baskervilles. In The Sign of Four‚ Sherlock Holmes is confronted with a past death and packages full of pearls sent to a woman named Ms. Morstan. Also‚ in The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle writes about a chain of murders to acclaim the wealth from the death of Sir Charles Baskerville. In “The

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    Instinctively as a detective‚ Sherlock Holmes was not guilty of the demise of Dr. Roylott. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson‚ when in the room of Helen Stoner‚ waited for evidence for the cause of Julia Stoner’s death. When Sherlock Holmes hit the ventilator‚ he startled Dr. Watson. When both men traveled to the room of Dr. Roylott‚ they saw that Dr. Roylott was dead‚ with a speckled band-the deadliest snake in India- wrapped around his head. The cause of Dr.Roylott’s death was not Sherlock Holmes’s accountability

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    Cause and Effect

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    Sherlock Holmes Influencing Modern Science [pic] Sherlock Holmes was a fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes was a London detective who was famous for his master disguises and his intellectual ability to solve difficult crime cases. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gave Sherlock Holmes many different ways to solve crimes such as fingerprinting‚ ballistics and handwriting analysis in order to determine the identity of the suspect. In the early 1900’s‚ solving a crime

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    There are numerous instances in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s short stories of Sherlock Holmes in which Doyle brings aspects of his own life into the stories he writes. The way Doyle was raised by his mother and father‚ and the characteristics they possessed carried into his writing. Other people such as his teacher at Edinburg University also influenced his work in major ways. Also‚ Doyle’s occupation and studies prior to writing his stories built the narrator of the story‚ Dr. Watson. Finally the events

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    Also‚ Sherlock Holmes office is on Baker Street. 2. The main character is Sherlock Holmes. 3. The two supporting characters are Irene Adler and the hereditary king of Bohemia‚ Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormsetin. 4. The problem facing Sherlock Holmes was that he had to find the picture of the prince. This photograph was being used by Irene Adler to threaten the soon to be king’s wedding. 5. The first event in the rising action was when the Kinf came to Sherlock Holmes

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    Sherlock Holmes used his observance to come to the conclusion that occurred at the end of “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In April 1883‚ Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson experienced an encounter with Helen Stoner. Holmes and Watson were recommended by Helen’s friend; that was Helen’s motive for reporting her sister’s death to them. Helen Stoner and Dr. Roylott lived in Stoke Moran. Dr. Roylott‚ Helen’s stepfather‚ was an aggressive man. After Helen Stoner’s mother

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    The Truth About Sherlock Holmes Many people have heard of Sherlock Holmes but do they really know who he is? Everybody sees him as a famous worldwide detective but in fact he is more than that. In the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes who is the protagonist‚ serves as a determined character always unfolding any kind of mystery and is a very complicated but yet fascinating man. During the whole book Sherlock shows us that he is bold‚ arrogant

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    his destruction of Pinhead in The Scarlet Gospels‚ which in my opinion‚ was a big disappointment. On what would normally be a completely unrelated note‚ Sherlock Holmes has also never been more popular than it is today‚ with a couple TV shows and a movie series. It seems Holmes is

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    Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes have become two of the greatest well-known characters in detective fiction. They are intricate characters with profound skills‚ exceptionally distinct personalities‚ and two different approaches that leave the audience always wanting additional stories. There is‚ without a doubt‚ no wonder why these two have plummeted from their stories and become incredibly realistic to readers all over the world. Each character has his

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    in the Sherlock Holmes series. The genre of this book is detective: all other books from the Sherlock Holmes Series is written in the same genre. The Hound of the Baskervilles was listed in the BBC in 2003 as the “best-loved novel”. The action starts in the family house of the Baskervilles‚ Baskervilles Hall. The owner of this house‚ Charles Baskerville‚ was founded dead in the alley of the moor. Dr. Mortimer‚ friend of the Sir Charles Baskerville‚ going to London to ask a Sherlock Holmes about help

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