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Sherlock Holmes
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Holmes' "Methods"
Holmes and Dupin
Sherlock Holmes
- Abductive Reasoning
- Observation Based Inference
- Deductive Reasoning
Let's take some time to discuss similarities and difference between these men.
- More a cultural icon than fictional character.
- Most depicted character in the history of film and television
- Over 70 different actors in more than 200 films (not including the dozens who have portrayed him on television.
Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Born in Edinburgh in 1859
- Was educated in medicine but failed in medical practice
- First published a Sherlock Holmes story in 1886
- Based Holmes on a professor named Joseph Bell
Poe, Doyle, and the Evolution of the Detective Story
"A Scandal in Bohemia"
- Client: the King of Bohemia
- Introduction of Irene Adler
- Scandalous Photographs (sound familiar?)
- Disguises employed
- Holmes outsmarted by "the woman"
"The Speckled Band"
Influences
- Client: Miss Helen Stoner
- What happened to her sister?!
- Gypsies, baboons, and cheetahs, oh my!
- Step-parents are the worst!
- Joseph Bell (the university professor who taught observation and reasoning)
- Poe's C. Auguste Dupin
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