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Sherlock Holmes
by Yuki Sugiyama

Sherlock Holmes is a most famous detective in

the whole world who has a trade mark of wearing **deer stalker**(hat) and holding pipe in his mouth. He is the 1st **detective consultant** who solves many cases with his keen observation and **deductive power (the five senses)**. But, did you know that there is much more fun stuff about him. And you will know find out how exciting his stories and about himself are.

= __ Characterization of Holmes__ = Holmes’ Knowledge Holmes has unbalanced knowledge. As you know, Holmes has much knowledge about crime, chemical, science, geology, botany and geography but to tell the truth, actually he has 0 knowledge about the stuff such as philosophy, astronomy, literature, government, and etc. Can you believe? Can you believe that Holmes didn’t know that the sun is going around the earth, even if he knows where all soils around the world are from as he just took a glance of it? …it is pretty amazing but it is a truth.

= __How he looks__ =

I guess his looks is going to grab everyone’s attention (even someone who is really insensible) because he has a powerful attraction. His height is over 6 feet(about 190cm) but he is really a skinny guy like skeleton so he looks much higher than what he actually is. And his eyes are always keen except when he is asleep. Then he has a sharp, tall nose like eagles and has angular chin jutted out. Both of his hands are always full of band aids,(for aiding cuts he made for experiment) ink, or chemical but his fingertips are really dexterous. By the way, his personalities are he is brave, always serious but sometimes likes to talk. But sometimes, he is really stubborn.

= __Adventures of Sherlock Holmes__ = Life with Dr.Watson The start was a story called “A Study in Scarlet”. This is the first book of the series and that tells how Holmes and Watson met and the first case they had. About 120years ago… Dr.Watson was sent to Afghanistan war as an army surgeon but got injured, and came back to London again, looking for lodge and person to live together and by chance, Holmes was also looking for a person to live together so they met and started to live together in London Baker street 221B. That was the start of their adventures. Then as the time passing, Watson got to know more about Holmes, getting amazed by his deductive power and keen observation, sometimes be shocked by his unbalanced knowledge. Also Holmes got to know about Watson and started to take him to his cases and they naturally became best partners.

Cases and End of Adventures That’s just what one would expect of world most famous detective, Holmes had many clients coming to **Baker street** **221B**. And each time he got a client, he takes Watson and solves all of those odd and shudder cases such as “A Study in Scarlet”, “The Sign of Four”, “The Hound of Baskervilles”, “Red-headed League”, “The Valley of Fear”, “Dancing Men”, “Speckled Band”, and many more. But sadly, those exciting mysteries also have the end. The last book of Holmes series is named “His last bow”. Actually, Sherlock Holmes was suppose to end at the story name “The Final Problem”, fall down from the high fountain hill as fighting with professor Moriarty who is the wire puller of this case. Holmes left a piece of paper to Watson that said “this is my last bow” on the hill. Watson fearfully looked down the hill for Holmes but couldn’t find him. Everyone thought this became a last sad farewell between Watson and Holmes…… But it didn’t! What a surprise! Author changed the story that Holmes was still alive! But it didn’t happen to change because of author’s consciousness. It was because all of the **Sherlockians** complained about that ending! They all didn’t want Holmes to die!

= __Author, Conan Doyle__ = Actual Occupation and secret behind Holmes’ story In south of England, a young Scottish doctor opened a clinic. Business didn’t go well, so he started to write a detective story just for passing the time waiting for his patients. And guess what? His name is …Conan Doyle, and he called the main character of his story Sherlock-Holmes. That story kept going smoothly than he thought and finished writing the first story, “A Study in Scarlet”. And he thought his story is pretty good! So, he published it on a magazine, and was amazed when it was an instant success! But… Conan Doyle didn’t feel pleased with this success, became quite annoyed, because all the fan letters were addressed not to him but to his fictional detective! He soon began to hate his own character and decided to kill him. So he wrote what he thought would be the final story of Sherlock Holmes, fighting with his enemy, Moriarty fall to the water fall and dead. But the plan failed. That was because of Holmes’ enthusiastic fans, didn’t let their super star died in the cold water fall. At last, Conan Doyle’s hero, Sherlock Holmes didn’t get to die…

= __Conclusion__ = As a conclusion, the guy name, Sherlock Holmes is the most famous detective around the world who has a great partner name Watson and has keen observation and deductive powers. Another fact, he is a fictional person written by Conan Doyle who was jealous of his original hero Sherlock Holmes and wanted to kill him off.

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