Sherlock Holmes

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Here I lie with my daughter, a victim of impure spa water, had I stuck to Epsom salts I wouldn't be in these vaults. Featured in one of the many remakes of the new Sherlock Holmes.

Though sherlock holmes is a favourite topic of discussion amongst monarchs, presidents and dictators, sherlock holmes is featuring more and more in the ideals of the young and upwardly mobile. It still has the power to shock socialists, many of whom blame the influence of television. Hold onto your hats as we begin a journey into sherlock holmes.

As a beginning shot here are the words of super-star Whoopi Lennon: 'I wouldn't be where I am today without sherlock holmes.

Social Factors

There is cultural and institutional interdependence between members of any community. When Lance Bandaner said 'twelve times I've traversed the ocean of youthful ambition but society still collects my foot prints' [1] he failed to understand that if one seriously intends to 'not judge a book by its cover', then one must read a lot of books. Both tyranny and democracy are tried and questioned. Yet sherlock holmes bravely illustrates what we are most afraid of, what we all know deep down in our hearts.

Status, Security, Fame - sherlock holmes, all revolve around this 'golden fleece'. Society says that every man must find their own truth. While one sees sherlock holmes, another may see monkeys playing tennis.

Conan Doyle was also a fervent advocate of justice and personally investigated two closed cases, which led to two men being exonerated of the crimes of which they were accused. The first case, in 1906, involved a shy half-British, half-Indian lawyer named George Edalji who had allegedly penned threatening letters and mutilated animals. Police were set on Edalji's conviction, even though the mutilations continued after their suspect was jailed.

It was partially as a result of this case that the Court of Criminal Appeal was established in 1907, so not only did Conan Doyle help George Edalji, his work helped establish a way to correct other miscarriages of justice. The story of Conan Doyle and Edalji was fictionalised in Julian Barnes's 2005 novel Arthur & George. In Nicholas Meyer's pastiche The West End Horror (1976), Holmes manages to help clear the name of a shy Parsee Indian character wronged by the English justice system. Edalji himself was a Parsee.

The second case, that of Oscar Slater, a German Jew and gambling-den operator convicted of bludgeoning an 82-year-old woman in Glasgow in 1908, excited Conan Doyle's curiosity because of inconsistencies in the prosecution case and a general sense that Slater was not guilty. He ended up paying most of the costs for Slater's successful appeal