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    "I'm sorry Sherlock-" John starts. "Where is it?" Sherlock asks, his voice returning to its dry and detached self. "It's over there-" Sherlock aimlessly shoves through the reporters swarming over the body, disappearing into the mass. John pulls me aside, worry etched across his face. "How is he?" I pause, considering how much I should tell him. Right after Sherlock put down his phone he ran and didn't stop until we arrived here. At the time I didn't ask for any details, I didn't need to. Looking

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    Imagine that you had to make a decision that could change your life and cost you your job. Well Sherlock Holmes had to make that decision. One day Sherlock Holmes had an investigation for a carbuncle and he found the suspects. He had to make the decision to set them free or send them to jail. In my opinion, Sherlock Holmes positively did the right decision to let them free. In the first place, if he didn’t let them go society would always see them as criminals. If another crime happened the suspects

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    Baskerville Conventions

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    Sherlock: The hounds of Baskerville is the second episode of a 3 part series released by the BBC and written by Steven Moffat during 2012. The episode tells the story of a troubled man suffering from what seems to be post traumatic stress disorder who comes to Sherlock Holmes the famous private detective and his friend doctor whats for help. This leads the group on an adventure to a quite Baskerville where they are haunted by a enormous spectral hound. Later on Sherlock belittles this hound to that

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    Sherlock Holmes In my opinion, Sherlock Holmes made the wrong choice. In the first place, he could of went to jail or the criminal could attempt to do it again Sherlock Holmes blamed an innocent man by thinking the innocent man did it. Sherlock Holmes thought he had it planned out by thinking the plumber did it. But the criminal had it all planned out the criminal probably thought putting someone else’s carbuncle in a goose would work but it didn’t In the second place, nobody got hurt sense Sherlock

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    “Trust not too much to appearances.”-Virgil Trusting appearances is not good and Watson and Holmes learned about this from their experiences. In The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles, the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle uses Dartmoor during the 1900’s (a very mystical place in England) as the setting of the story and makes Holmes and Watson the detectives. Because Holmes has other cases to solve at Baker Street, Holmes sends Watson to investigate the Baskervilles case for him. Sir Henry is going to Baskerville

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    Holmes Good Vs Evil

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    The quote captures the constant contrast between good and evil. Holmes is a vicious man and will use anyone to obtain whatever objective is set into motion. It analyzes Holmes development in the dark and light, he is presented as both and does not abide to one specific element. Holmes presents himself to everyone he meets as charismatic. Disarming their guards to achieve something; benefit from them in some shape or form. He uses these traits to obtain something whether the act be good or evil; they

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    Part 1: Chapter one page 557, we are introduced to Sherlock Holmes. The chapter starts out with introducing a mystery stick. The author, Doyle uses lots of imagery and description to revel sherlock's personality.This story got me hooked from the very beginning. The way Holmes analyses the stick and observed every single little detail got me immersed in the text. “ a doctor is more likely to come from a hospital than from a hunt, and that when the initials ‘C.C’ are placed before that hospital the

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    Ace Ventura and Sherlock Holmes are two superb detectives. Ace Ventura is a detective that focuses on animals. He can solve things from mistaken identities and murder mysteries to missing animals and stolen goods. Sherlock Holmes is a detective of homicide. He has solved numerous cases and is considered the best detective in London. Both detectives are prodigious in their work. The detectives, Sherlock Holmes from the novel “the Hound of the Baskervilles”; and Ace Ventura, from the movie “Ace

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    The Hound of Baskerville is a detective fiction written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It is a tale of a mythical beast that is said to haunt Baskerville family. During Victorian era women were restricted to domestic sphere, and were seen inferior to men. Throughout the story, Arthur Conan Doyle depicts the gender polarized society of the 18th century, in which iniquitous men manipulated women. Hugo Baskerville abuses the daughter of a yeoman, and Mr. Stapleton manipulates his wife and Laura Lyons to assist

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    Sherlock homes is a great detective, who notices everything investigating and even when he isn't. In the story and even in the movie he's a great detective but there are some similarlys and differences in the two. In the movie sherlock is still a great detective, but not any ordinary detective. When you think detective you think professional at all times when working but not sherlock he's off.he doesn't fallow the book he's always a little tipsy and a little weird and crazy. His methods are different

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