Sherlock holmes essay q's

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Jack Moore                                                       25/10/08

Sherlock Holmes Essay Questions:

How does Conan Doyle make Sherlock Holmes such a popular Fictional Detective?

 In my opinion Conan Doyle did not only made Sherlock Holmes Popular but also world famous by the short stories he first published in The Strand Magazine in 1891. I like to think that these stories will last forever and that generations to come will still look at these as being the greatest and most well known / read detective short stories / novels of all time.

The stories I have read are:

  • The Red Headed League                          
  • The Speckled Band
  • The Final Problem
  • The Empty House
  • The Engineer’s thumb
  • The Greek Interpreter
  • Silver Blaze
  • The Boscombe Valley Mystery
  • The five Orange Pips
  • A case of Identity

Conan Doyle got his idea of Sherlock Holmes from when he was working as a student at a medical school. His tutor was a man called Dr. Joseph Bell. His ability to distinguish facts from little evidence intrigued him. This idea of a detective that could find out clues in the strangest ways appealed to him. So he did this to show how clever he was and before he knew it a magazine called The Strand Magazine wanted to publish his stories. Henceforth, now they are world famous. His first story was called a study in scarlet; this was a big hit for the people of England. Also when the strand magazine published these they got an artist called Sidney Paget to do the illustrations to complete the stories.  In total Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories. His “supposed” last story was The Final Problem written in 1895. In 902 He wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles but fans were not pleased by only one more story (this was wrote before the death of Holmes). And then due to financial problems he brought back his stories in 1903 with The Empty House. An American magazine called The Collier’s weekly paid Doyle a lot of money to keep his stories going. 

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There are various different methods in which Doyle created this popular detective, but not all is good even though most of it is. You can come to terms and call him both a flawed and eccentric hero. He took drugs for starters but in those days they knew little of the damage they caused. He was sometimes bad tempered and restless which meant few people could talk to him for a period of time. He hated to be kept waiting as well so he took his own root to solving crimes going only by his own evidence. He was ...

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