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Biography
of the autor.
Arthur Conan Doyle was
born May 22, 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The family surname had
been Doyle, but as an adult Arthur preferred to use Conan Doyle as his surname.
He was suddenly an
extremely famous writer.
The magazine wanted
more stories, but as
the author didn't want to be too associated with the now-famous detective.
Sherlock Holmes it was created in 1880.
Inspirate of the character.
Sherlock Holmes was inspired
by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Royal
Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Bell was noted for drawing large conclusions from
the smallest observations.
Some years later Bell wrote in a
letter to Conan Doyle: "you are yourself Sherlock Holmes and well you know
it."
Sherlock Holmes
An estimate of Holmes's age in
the story "His Last Bow" places his birth in 1854.
He spent six years of university working as a
consulting detective, before financial difficulties led him to take Watson as a
roommate, at which point the narrative of the stories begins.
Watson
Holmes lives with for some time
with Watson, before his marriage in 1887, and again after his wife's death.
Holmes's friendship with Watson is his most
significant relationship. In several stories, Holmes's fondness for Watson is
revealed
He gives practical assistance in the conduct of
his cases and is the detective's right-hand man.
Most of the Holmes stories are
frame narratives, written from Watson's point of view as summaries of the
detective's most interesting cases.
Habits and
personality
Watson describes Holmes as
"bohemian" in habits and lifestyle. Holmes is an eccentric, with no
regard for contemporary standards of tidiness or good order.
What appears to others as chaos,
however, is to Holmes a wealth of useful information.
Holmes would dive into his apparent mess of
random papers and artefacts to retrieve precisely the specific document or
eclectic item he was looking for.
Methods of
detections
Holmes's primary intellectual
detection method is abductive reasoning.
It is interesting to logicians
to try to analyse just what Holmes is doing when he performs his
"deductions."
Holmes displays a strong
aptitude for acting and disguise. In several stories, he adopts disguises to
gather evidence.
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