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    Sherlock Holmes Do you know that the Guinness World Records has consistently listed Sherlock Holmes as the "most portrayed movie character" with 75 actors playing the part in over 211 films? There is something magical about the character of Sherlock Holmes created by the Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The image of the tall‚ thin man with a cape‚ carrying a magnifying glass and wearing a deerstalker is recognized immediately. He is the international icon for the detective‚ the

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    and stories of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ with us here. Please give her a warm welcome. Chuck: Thank you; I was genuinely excited when I received the invitation to come and talk on the show. Interviewer: Now‚ this novel has been highly recommended and useful as a related text for this particular area of study‚ belonging. Why do you think that is? Could you elaborate on that? Chuck: Well‚ this novel contains short stories in which the protagonist‚ detective ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and partner‚ doctor ‘John

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    the movie Sherlock Holmes and The Great Mouse Detective that both of the detectives got ahead of themselves and tried to hypothesize the case before they knew all of the details. Body 1st paragraph In the film Sherlock Holmes‚ Sherlock Holmes is the main detective which relates to The Great Mouse Detective. In The Great Mouse Detective Sir Basil of Baker Street is the leading detective while they both use inferences to gain on a case. In the Sherlock Holmes film Sherlock Holmes uses inferences

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    The Financial Detective‚ 2005 Teaching Note Synopsis and Objectives The case presents the student with financial ratios for eight pairs of unidentified companies and asks them to mate the description of the company with the financial profile derived from the ratios. The primary objective of this case is to introduce students to financial ratio analysis—in particular‚ the range of ratios and the insights each one affords. This case presumes that students have already been introduced to

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    Sherlock Holmes character Arthur Conan Doyle is the author of the very popular Sherlock Holmes series. He wrote many adventures about Sherlock Holmes‚ a consulting detective who is extremely intelligent and sees the world differently than most people. Although Holmes is a fictional character‚ Doyle was inspired by one of his University professors‚ Dr. Joseph Bell‚ who was an expert in deductive reasoning. Doyle was quite impressed and used these same principles when he created his Sherlock Holmes character

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    sub-genres of detective fiction and hard-boiled fiction is one of them. What exactly is hard-boiled detective fiction? Hard-Boiled detective fiction is fiction that features tough‚ cynical‚ urban private eyes who expose corruption and frequently get injured in the course of their investigations ("Detective Fiction‚" Literary). Hard-Boiled fiction is considered one of the more popular sub-genres of detective fiction; there have been numerous films and novels about urban detectives exposing corruption

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    Character of Sherlock Holmes “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” is one of a several detective collection written by Arthur Conan Doyle which became well known among numerous people in the world. The protagonist in “A Scandal in Bohemia” as well as in the rest of Doyle’s stories is a legendary detective known as Sherlock Holmes‚ who always shows a positive energy into solving criminal mysteries. In “A Scandal in Bohemia”‚ Holmes along with his trustful friend‚ tries to unravel the riddle regarding

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    pencil drawing of the characters from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective series‚ Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. I did this because I felt drawing was the best way within my ability to display both Holmes and Watson. I decided to draw half the faces of Holmes and Watson combined together. Even though they are two different people‚ the two contrasting characters compliment each other well in order to solve cases. As you might know‚ Holmes and Watson are both witty characters that use their unique

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    unknown‚ and I’m one of them. That‚ perhaps‚ is why I fell so immediately in love with Arthur Conan Doyle’s universe of Sherlock Holmes. Opening my first Holmes book‚ A Study in Scarlet‚ and becoming enthralled with the characters‚ the language‚ and the mystery‚ was a turning point in my life. “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes‚” Holmes said in The Hound of the Baskervilles. The quote might seem condescending to some‚ but I find it strangely uplifting. It‚ as

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    The Juxtaposition of Holmes and Burnham For every man who devotes his effort and intelligence into enriching the world‚ there will be an equally powerful man who intends to counterbalance the goodness with malevolence. In The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson‚ the intertwining tales of Henry H. Holmes and Daniel Burnham show that good cannot exist without evil‚ just as evil cannot exist without good. In the midst of one of Chicago’s finest architectural happenings‚ one man is working meticulously

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