The Mysterious World of Sherlock Holmes

Bruce Wexler

> Sherlock Holmes appeared in over sixty short stories and novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, written over a forty-year period from 1887 to 1927. Holmes was unique - as the first fictional detective to solve crimes by using empirical deduction and icy logic, untainted by romanticism and preconceived notions. >As a medical student at Edinburgh University, Conan Doyle learned advanced techniques of diagnosis, which could equally well be applied to crime solving. Theatrical demonstrations in the art of diagnostics staged by his Medical School tutor, Dr. Joseph Bell, inspired the author to endow Holmes with a similar ability to shock his colleagues and culprits by dramatically revealing the secret heart of a crime. >Eventually, Conan Doyle tired of the pressure to continually write Sherlock's adventures He first killed off his masterpiece in the famous plunge over the Reichenbach...

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