Book Report on “Adventure of Sherlock Holmes”

Book report on “Adventure of Sherlock Holmes” As a detective, Sherlock Holmes is widely known to the world. As even Holmes becomes a synonym for the brilliant detectives in our daily life. 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. As the world first and only “consulting detective,” he pursued criminals throughout Victorian and Edwardian London, the south of England, and continental Europe. Holmes made a singular impact on the popular imagination and has become the most enduring character of detective fiction. The author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the teller of the tale who lived a respectable life based on his own persistence of chivalry seemed something of an enigma to his friends and to the public. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and opened a clinic in Portsmouth. Actually he was a unsuccessful doctor but a great detective writer. Conan Doyle modeled Holmes’s methods and mannerisms on those of Dr. Joseph Bell, who had been his professor at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. In particular, Holmes’s uncanny ability to gather evidence based on his honed skills of observation and deductive reasoning paralleled Bell’s methods of diagnosing a patient’s disease. Holmes offered some insight into his method, claiming that “When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” His detecting abilities become clear, though no less amazing, when explained by his companion, Dr. John H. Watson, who recounts the criminal cases they jointly pursue. The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes was written in 1892. And it was consisted of twelve short stories, which were named as “Scandal in Bohemia” “The Red-headed League” “A Case of Identity” “The Boscombe Valley Mystery” “The Five Orange Pips” “The Man with the Twisted Lip” “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle” “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” “The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb” “The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor” “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet” “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches”. And all of the stories took place after Dr. Watson had gotten married and moved away from 221B Baker Street in which Holmes dwelled. The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes began with the story named “The Scandal in Bohemia”. In this story, Dr. Watson pictured us a bachelor’s life in a detail way. Holmes was described as a very complex and moody character who, although of strict habits, is considerably untidy. His dwelling, 221B, Baker Street, was tended by his housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson. Holmes appeared to undergo bouts of mania and depression, the latter of which were accompanied by pipe smoking, violin playing, and cocaine use and his extraordinary powers of deduction and disguise as well. “The Scandal in Bohemia” was the story of how Holmes and Dr. Watson tried their best to get a photograph and compromising letters from the opera singer, names Irene Adler. And then, in “The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb”, while working for the secretive Colonel Stark, Holmes had to deal with the events that had led a hydraulic engineer to have his thumbs chopped off. Next, in “The Five Orange Pips”, he exposed the plan that Ku Klux Klan members plotted to retrieve sensitive documents from the Openshaw family. To make matter worse, Ku Klux Klan members were be ordered to kill all of the Openshaw family in the process if necessary. Finally, in “Silver Blaze”, Holmes and Watson had to succeed in finding the prized racehorse, Silver Blaze, whose trainer had been killed and whom the Dartmoor authorities had failed to find. This collection of some of Holmes most fascinate cases included essential elements, like blackmail, murder and lost fortunes. And all the cases were interconnected with Holmes’s characteristic lifestyle. Of course, Holmes solved nearly every case. Nevertheless, in each case he had to admit a failure. Instead of making Holmes like a loser, these failure added lots of humanities to the particularly unbeatable Holmes. In fact he was a little rude, arrogant, unfriendly, even cold, and easily bored. But nobody minds, on the contrary people like him. Holmes was quite good at searching for clues and recomposing them. At the beginning of “A Scandal in Bohemia”, he even noticed the number of the steps which led up from the hall to his room. And he emphasized that it was the great difference between “see” and “observe” that led to his point where Watson failed. In addition, what appeared to others as chaos, however, was a wealth of useful information to Holmes. He was fairly knowledgeable and famous for his logical reasoning. Eventually, almost all of the cases were solved in 221B, Baker Street. The author didn’t portray him as an all-rounder. He had many bad habits. Yet these disadvantages only made Holmes seem like a real man but not a fictional character. Holmes’s methods of detection impress me, and also, I have learnt a lot from it. In fact, he often employed several connected principles which were based on his great observation. And this kind of deductive reasoning allowed Holmes to reveal the pawnbroker’s former occupation, the carpenter on a ship in “The Red-headed League”. From that, I know that Holmes had accumulated a wealth of experience before he succeeded. The application of scientific research methods in the cases is another impressive trait of this book.That’s why Sherlock Holmes has also been used in the scientific literature. In the late 19th century some scientist had examined Holmes’s methods in the light of the science and the criminology. Neurologists highlight aspects of Doyle’s books that are in the line with what is currently known about expertise, aspects that are implausible, and aspects that suggest future research. The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes is a magnificent detective book. Not only does the plot are so fantastic but it also offers us plenty of knowledge and experience. This book will expose you to the most intriguing detective in the fictional world.