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Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the late nineteenth century.
His adventures are told, almost in their entirety, by his friend and biographer, Dr. John Watson, a sort of alter ego of that Conan Doyle (who also graduated in medicine), which describes it as :

" ... his eyes were sharp and penetrating, and the thin aquiline nose gave his expression looked alert and strong. His chin was square and prominent, typical man of action. The hands, invariably smeared ink and discoloration caused by acid, had an extraordinarily delicate touch, as I had often occasion to notice when I watched him handle the delicate instruments of his philosophy. "

appeared in four novels and fifty-six stories, the character has assumed the role of the yellow icon of literature, far exceeding the fame of its creator. Conan Doyle in his stories also pours his passion for literature of terror and mystery.

The detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional character is the star of many films and there are many actors who have played. However, the film face of all that Holmes is Basil Rathbone, and with Nigel Bruce in the role of Watson, he starred between 1939 and 1946 to fewer than 14 films.

He had, a certain diffidence about the investigative techniques of Scotland Yard, Inspector Lestrade fun behind while helping mainly for personal satisfaction . Every time I was in a state of inactivity to fight depression and keep his mind on the move, made use of cocaine or morphine. Later, this dependence will be replaced by the pipe (again with some disappointment by Watson, because they are coming, especially for more complex investigations, to smoke the living room of their apartment completely).

" Sherlock Holmes took from the mantelpiece a bottle and a hypodermic syringe from a polished morocco case . With long fingers, white and nerve attached to the end of the syringe needle is thin and rolled up his left sleeve of his shirt. His eyes rested for a moment thoughtfully forearm furrowed and wrist tendons and all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture. Finally, in the flesh stuck the sharp point, he pressed the tiny piston, and then, with a deep sigh of satisfaction, he fell down in the velvet chair. "

" Sherlock Holmes took from the mantelpiece a bottle and a hypodermic syringe from a polished morocco case. With long fingers, white and nerve attached to the end of the syringe needle is thin and rolled up his left sleeve of his shirt. His eyes rested for a moment thoughtfully forearm furrowed and wrist tendons and all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture. Finally, in the flesh stuck the sharp point, he pressed the tiny piston, and then, with a deep sigh of satisfaction, he fell down in the velvet chair. "

Detective of Baker Street was the first, if not actually to apply, to popularize criminology criminology, ie the application of scientific method to criminal investigations.
put at the root is a difference between observation and deduction details. There were two distinct aspects, as the observation led to some preliminary conclusions, but only with the knowledge of some aspects of the case could draw definitive inferences. This method is derived directly from that of Dr. Joseph Bell, Conan Doyle's teacher, who first advocated in medical diagnosis the careful observation of details, then the conclusion based on the collection of conclusive evidence.
The method of Holmes was often based on the collection of evidence on the ground and put a certain indizi.Infine, an important difference between looking and observing, in the first activities were all certainly good, but only the ability to grasp the details could be improved with the habit and exercise. In sum, this was
Holmes: a dry and snappy personality that led to high levels investigative activity in literature, becoming a reference point for giallistidel world.

famous phrase Holmes:

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

The detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional character is the star of many films and there are many actors who have played. However, the film face of all that Holmes is Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce in that part of Watson, has seen between 1039 and 1946 to fewer than 14 films.

The most typical way of saying Holmes is attributed to the phrase "Elementary, Watson , "

(Elementary, my dear Watson!), when he says, with a certain sufficiency doctor friend the solution of a case. In fact this famous phrase was never uttered.

The classic image in which the detective wearing a deerstalker (hunting hat), and smoking a calabash pipe (the pipe characteristic curved like a trunk) is itself spurious: only in a story Watson refers to a "cloth cap member ", but not to the deerstalker. In no trace of the adventure is rather calabash pipe, either while Holmes smokes a pipe, cigars and cigarettes.

In short, whether the sentence is a pipe and hat, for the general public have become the hallmarks of Sherlock Holmes, are actually apocryphal, later inventions, usually the home theater shooting then the cinema. Was American actor William Gillette, one of the earliest and most famous musicians of the detective, put his head in the deerstalker hero and the curved pipe in hand, even where the illustrator Sidney Paget was the first to draw the typical hunter's hat. Gillette Holmes took the stage to more than 1,300 times, is interpreted in a silent film and early radio drama dedicated to the detective of Baker Street.

Holmes and Watson (from The Greek Interpreter, illustration by Sidney Paget.

The most famous illustration by Sidney Paget published in the journal British Strand Magazine.