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Beggar And St Clair
1,043 wordsThe Man with the Twisted Lip By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle In this short story, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mr. Neville St. Clair has been kidnapped. His wife is in town one day and she sees him hanging outside of a window. As she looks up at him, he lets out a scream and is yanked back into the room from where he stands. She is very concerned about seeing her husband in this situation and thinks that he is in trouble. She runs to the entrance of the building that she saw him standing in and she trie...
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Watson And Sir Henry
640 wordsThe Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle One night Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson came back to there office and found a walking cane. After finding this walking cane Holmes and Watson examined and made hypothesis of who could have left this walking canes here. After making a conclusion Dr. Mortimer came in the office with a case of homicide on Sir Charles Baskerville who had died that week. Dr. Mortimer explains what had happened to his friend. Dr. Mortimer thought that even though i...
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Holmes And Watson
636 wordsSUMMARY Entering the office and showing Holmes and Watson an 18th century manuscript, Dr. James Mortimer tells the myth of Hugo Baskerville. Hugo captured and imprisoned a young country girl at his estate in Devonshire. He then became the victim of a hound of hell as he chased her along the lonesome moors late one night. Ever since that day, James Mortimer reports, the Baskerville family has been haunted by a mysterious and supernatural black hound. The recent death of Sir Charles Baskerville ha...
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Next Morning Watson And Holmes
5,523 wordsMemoirs of Sherlock Holmes, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is a collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories. Silver Blaze, The Yellow Face, The Stock-Brokers Clerk, The Gloria Scott, The Musgrave Ritual, The Reigate Puzzle, The Crooked Man, The Resident Patient, The Greek Interpreter, The Naval Treaty, and The Final Problem are included. A lot of information about Holmes and Watson is included in this collection. There is some information which is shocking, and other information which might ...
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Sherlock Holmes Alongside Dr Watson
1,573 wordsThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The two main characters of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are Dr. John Watson and Sherlock Holmes. They are both complex characters in their own ways, though Holmes is more mysterious. This may be because Watson narrates the stories, so we can see what he thinks and feels. About Holmes we only see what Watson thinks of him, and what he says. It could be difficult to see why two so very different people are friends, but each has his own reason for continuing t...
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Holmes As A Detective
1,104 wordsWhat are the main features of Sherlock Holmes as a man and as a detective In this essay I shall seek to describe the character of Sherlock Holmes and compare it to his abilities and behaviour as a detective. It should serve as a testimony to the precision and mental ability of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in using his imagination in building detective cases and building a complex character like Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes stories describe firstly a detective of almost infinite ability in solv...
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Sherlock Holmes
327 wordsSherlock Holmes Watson's primary role in the "Sherlock Holmes" is narrating the story. The narrator (Watson) mostly starts his stories in the middle of an action or scene "I am afraid, Watson that I shall I have to go", said Holmes. The style in he narrates the scene is informal but in a civil and polite way. He uses great description when setting the scene so that the reader can imagine exactly how the scene looks like, "I found myself in the corner of a first-class carriage flying along en rou...
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Detective Story
1,523 wordsThere are many different books, in many different genres. There are horror novels, love stories, suspenseful books, and detective stories. The detective story's evolution has been a long and eventful process. The man responsible for the biggest leap in the detective story was Arthur Conan Doyle. He gave the world Sherlock Holmes, who could be considered the greatest investigator in detective story history. Holmes was unique in detective story history. .".. The reader's interest is captivated not...
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Holmes And Watson
673 words"Observe, Watson". An unfamiliar voice caused me to stop dead in my tracks as I was coming back to my table. Surreptitiously glancing through the foliage, I noticed two men pointing at something. Hesitant to announce my presence, I was very perplexed by the fact thatthe object they were staring at was my backpack! I was studying in the park and walked off to get a drink of water, and when I came back, whom should I find examining my worldly possessions but the great detective and his chronicler!...
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Sherlock Holmes And Mr Watson
1,512 wordsThe Count of Monte Cristo The main character would have to be Edmond Dantes or The Count of Monte Cristo. Edmond Dantes is surprisingly quite successful for such a young age, he is an outstanding ship captain, a good friend to all his friends, and not to mention he is about to marry a beautiful women named Mercedes. One characteristic that Dantes never loses is his kindness to people and his charm even after he spends a lifetime in prison. When he becomes the Count of Monte Cristo, he becomes mo...
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Conventions For Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Stories
3,882 wordsThe Sherlock Holmes stories were written by a man named Arthur Conan Doyle. They were written during Queen Victoria's reign around the 1880's. They were detective fiction stories. Detective fiction is basically a story based upon a mysterious crime that has been committed, and then solved by a detective - who is seen as a shining light of reason and logic in a dark, supernaturally gothic case. He detective is a genius who can spot clues and other sorts of things that other human beings would nev...
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Dr Watson And King
1,087 wordsA Scandal in Bohemia was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in 1891. It is a fiction short story that about a detective Sherlock Holmes who helps the King of Bohemia solve problem. The King of Bohemia was being a blackmail by a women he loved, and Holmes' help was needed. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. He wentto Edinburgh University after nine years in Jesuit schools. He received degree in medicine in 1881. He became an eye specialist in S...
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Narrator Of The Short Story
291 wordsThe story "A scandal in Bohemia' was written by Arthur Conan Doyle in eighteen-ninety-one. It it not the authors that provides the story's narrative voice. The narrator is also a character in the story. Eventhough he is not the main character, he has a very important function to serve such as being a part of the main event, helping Mr. Holmes and describe every character the way he sees them wich is the way the reader would see them. In The short story "A scandal in Bohemia', the main character ...
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