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In the first Holmes tale, A Study in Scarlet, financial difficulties lead Holmes and Dr. Watson to share rooms together at 221B Baker Street, London. [26] Their residence is maintained by their landlady, Mrs. Hudson. [27] Holmes works as a detective for twenty-three years, with Watson assisting him for seventeen of those years. [28] Most of the stories are frame narratives written from Watson's point of view, as summaries of the detective's most interesting cases. Holmes frequently calls Watson's records of Holmes's cases sensational and populist, suggesting that they fail to accurately and objectively report the "science" of his craft: Conan Doyle fathered five children. Two with his first wife—Mary Louise (28 January 1889 – 12 June 1976), and Arthur Alleyne Kingsley, known as Kingsley (15 November 1892 – 28 October 1918). With his second wife he had three children—Denis Percy Stewart (17 March 1909 – 9 March 1955), second husband in 1936 of Georgian Princess Nina Mdivani (circa 1910 – 19 February 1987; former sister-in-law of Barbara Hutton); Adrian Malcolm (19 November 1910–3 June 1970) and Jean Lena Annette (21 December 1912–18 November 1997). Today, only around 11 complete copies of Beeton’s Christmas Annual for 1887, the original magazine where the story first appeared, are known to exist. 1890 The Sign of the Four

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At the same time, the city of London is preparing for Christmas and the newspapers are filled with the news of the precious gemstone being stolen. A plumber and a previously convicted felon are arrested for the crime and despite his repeated claims that he had nothing to do with the robbery, the police is confirmed that he is the thief as he was there around the tome when the Blue Carbuncle disappeared. Santander: who was Abbey's most famous customer?". The Telegraph. 27 May 2009. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 . Retrieved 18 February 2020. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.I became curious which of the Holmes stories did not get adapted and found a list at the bottom of the Wikipedia entry below. We must begin in Baker Street; and best of all, if possible, let it be a stormy winter morning when Holmes routs Watson out of bed in haste. The doctor wakes to see that tall, ascetic figure by the bedside with a candle. "Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot!" (Christopher Morley) I have solved the case, Watson." He sat up, brushing a fried egg from the lapel of his dressing gown. "Allow me to elucidate." I proceeded to read all of the unadapted stories and did not remember a one of them and found some of them quite terrible. I can say, unreservedly, nothing was lost in not adapting them.

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Despite Holmes's remarkable reasoning abilities, Conan Doyle still paints him as fallible in this regard (this being a central theme of " The Yellow Face"). [120] Forensic science 19th-century Seibert microscope My overall rating is 4.5 stars for the entire bind up. I do list each story and my rating individually, as well as my average rating for each collection.*I trust you have brought your passport, Watson?" he said, in lieu of greeting. "We depart for Algeria this evening. The cab will be here momentarily." Holmes is, in a nutshell, single-minded in his detection. In that respect, it makes sense that all emotions, particularly love, are abhorrent to his cold, precise, but admirably balanced mind. He's basically an instrument for finding out criminal stuff. I actually appreciated this, since Doyle didn't risk all the soap opera-ish entanglements that make long-running serials hard to follow without a map. He conceived each of his stories as both united by Holmes' character, and yet still potentially interesting to people who had never read any other of his stories. Until Watson's arrival at Baker Street, Holmes largely worked alone, only occasionally employing agents from the city's underclass. These agents included a variety of informants, such as Langdale Pike, a "human book of reference upon all matters of social scandal", [135] and Shinwell Johnson, who acted as Holmes's "agent in the huge criminal underworld of London". [136] The best known of Holmes's agents are a group of street children he called "the Baker Street Irregulars". [137] [138] Combat British Army (Adams) Mark III, the type probably carried by Watson Pistols Though the stories always refer to Holmes's intellectual detection method as " deduction", Holmes primarily relies on abduction: inferring an explanation for observed details. [115] [116] [117] "From a drop of water," he writes, "a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other." [118] However, Holmes does employ deductive reasoning as well. The detective's guiding principle, as he says in The Sign of Four, is: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." [119] Thompson, Sam (26 February 2005). "Review: The Final Solution by Michael Chabon". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 26 December 2019.

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The Five Orange Pips concern a young gentleman named John Openshaw who has a series of suspicion on his uncle about an ongoing crime who just returned from England and wants to settle down in Horsham. The man has also served as a colonel in the Confederate Army and a planter in Florida.The Mystery of Baritsu". The Bartitsu Society. Archived from the original on 30 November 2018 . Retrieved 27 December 2019.