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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 when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients ...
First edition cover of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, published 1894.. Contains 12 stories published in The Strand as further episodes of the Adventures between December 1892 and December 1893 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget (after the magazine publication, Doyle included "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" only in the His Last Bow collection).
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892.It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, which had been published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892.
Holmes and Watson meet and, after assessing each other and the rooms, they move in. Holmes is a "consulting detective", and his frequent guests are clients. After a demonstration of Holmes's deductive skills, Watson's disbelief turns into astonishment. Death of Enoch Drebber Original illustration of Holmes with magnifying glass, by David Henry ...
The Little Pigley Farm crossnumber puzzle and its history by Joel Pomerantz; Public domain scans of the first 384 issues of The Strand Magazine from January 1891–1922 December, at Internet Archive.org. VictorianVoices.net Excerpts from The Strand Magazine (including the first Sherlock Holmes stories). "The Strand magazine 1891–1930".
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published late in 1893 with 1894 date. [1] It was first published in the UK by G. Newnes Ltd., and was published in the US by Harper & Brothers in February 1894. [2]
Holmes, Watson meet Henry Wood, illustration by Sidney Paget reprinted in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. With Watson as a witness, Holmes visits Wood in his lodgings. Wood gladly tells his story to save Nancy from being accused of murder. Thirty years prior, he had been in India, and had been a soldier in the Royal Munsters with then-Sergeant ...
The story was adapted as a 1923 short film for the Sherlock Holmes Stoll film series, with Eille Norwood as Sherlock Holmes and Hubert Willis as Dr. Watson. [ 6 ] The 1954–1955 Sherlock Holmes television series starring Ronald Howard as Holmes and H. Marion Crawford as Watson loosely adapted the story for its episode "The Case of the Blind ...