Sherlock HolmesThe Great Detective

Sherlock Holmes

Detective Story Poe created the detective story 1841 Dupin

Brilliant Solves by sheer mental powers Eccentric Prefers night to day Burns candles

Elements of the Conventional Detective Story:

Crime discovered Innocent person is suspected Clues sorted out

Detectives: Keen Clever Intelligent Logical Observant Know all crimes Quiet thinker Not rash Insightful Good eye sight Agile Quick thinker

Crime Scene: Secure and isolate the scene Record the scene

Photography Sketches Notes

Search for evidence…physical Collect and package evidence and label…must

use gloves Custody of evidence Submit to lab

Physical Evidence: Blood Saliva Documents Drugs Explosives Fibers Firearms Glass Hair Paint Gas residues Plastic bags…garbage Serial numbers Soil and minerals Tools Vehicle….lights

Impressions Shoe prints

Fingerprints Ridge patterning –unique Developed by French

police…expert Alphonse Bertillon in 1883…body measurements

Unchanged during life

Biography of Sherlock Holmes

Born on 6th January 1854 The hawk-like features Piercing eyes Wore dressing-gown and had pipe Wore deerstalker cap and had

magnifying glass Enigmatic figure…solving crimes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Born: May 22, 1859 OCCUPATION: Doctor and author DEATH DATE: July 7, 1930 EDUCATION: University of Edinburgh…

studied to be a doctor Wrote: 60 stories about Sherlock

Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Doyle met and married his first wife, Louisa

Hawkins in 1885…dies of TB Doyle remarried Jean Leckie He struggled to balance his medical career with his

efforts to gain recognition as an author Doyle later gave up medicine in order to devote all

of his attention to his writing and his faith Created Watson Famous address 221B Baker Street Study in Scarlet and The Hound of The Baskervilles