In ‘The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter’, a poisonous gas is used to attempt to kill two men, Mr

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These little details will show up every now again all connected, but not clear to the characters or readers except Sherlock of course. These details are why this mystery story is such an interesting and a classic. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a mystery story that would appeal to people want and desire to be a detective of their own. These mystery stories don’t have to involve death or a tragic attack. This mystery story is a testament and a model for the theme of mystery stories.

Lastly, Holmes has so much bravado.  As the creditors were swaying to arrest Holmes, “Holmes fled”(Larson 325).  This shows he won’t be a man and face the consequences. He won’t fight back. As Holmes fled, he shows the reader this fake courage and fake dignity.

Although Holmes’ actions spooked many of the people close to his crimes as well as many who had heard of them, possibly the most unsettling things about Holmes was

Holmes’ solution to “The Musgrave Ritual” is simple. The butler Brunton is using the Musgrave Ritual to discover the families hidden treasure, and he is using his ex-fiancé Rachel to help him do it. The solution is very easy to discover because all clues point to Brunton and Rachel working together to find the treasure. Holmes even says, “in this case the matter was simplified by Brunton’s intelligence being quite first rate, so that it was unnecessary to make any allowance for personal equation, as the astronomers have dubbed it” (Doyle, 1994, p. 210). Holmes knows that Brunton is smart enough to solve the Musgrave Ritual, and he knows that he had to have help to remove the stone from the hole so they could retrieve the treasure below. Doyle gives the readers an easy solution to this crime because of all the evidence points towards Brunton and Rachel working together. However, the solution

“After the fair he intended to burn the building to collect the insurance and, as a happy dividend, destroy whatever surplus “material” might remain in its hidden storage chambers, although ideally, given other disposal measures available to him, the building by then would contain nothing of an incriminating nature” (85). This allows the reader into the mind of Holmes and create an understanding that Holmes had no interest in the innocent people that were going to be hurt because of him. Assuming the role of architect once more, Holmes hired carpenters, in which they started remodeling the second and third floors of his building. Once again Holmes’s method of segregating tasks and firing workers proved successful. Holmes had already used this method of firing workers by claiming that they had done an inferior job, and his true intention succeeded since Holmes did not pay the workers for the job they

The sole purpose of the “prison diary,” was to supplement Holmes’s memoir in a last effort to prove his innocence. Remarkably, even after committing a string of tragic crimes including fraud and murder, Holmes still attempts to use his charming personality and deceiving ways to present himself as a, “man of warmth and piety,” in order to once again avoid being persecuted. However, explains Larson, it is actually sad how painfully easy it is to see through the lies of Holmes’s memoir and diary- they’re so sentimental that it is evident that they serve as a cover up of his actual evil and perversive nature. All in all, these details of Holmes’s actions in prison truly demonstrate the fact that he is insane- he believes that the police is completely incompetent and that he can easily trick them with his deceptive memoir and prison diary. However, little does he know that his tactics are becoming less and less effective and are actually beginning to expose his mental instability as the investigation against him proceeds. After reading this passage I was felt a combination of disgust and

And ironically, he wasn’t even arrested for murder but instead insurance fraud. The reason Holmes was able to go all those years without being caught was because of his charm and people skills. When families would write letters to him, he would show sympathy for their loss and offer his help in any way he could. When families would hire private investigators, he would invite them for lunch and use his charm to act like he knew nothing about the disappearances. In some circumstances, he would give a list of friends the young women “said” they were going to visit.

Holmes had everything he could ever want, which was great for him of course. His childhood was very privileged, and he enjoyed it. People told his family that he was a very intelligent kid for his age. Holmes was treated well. As he grew up, he got interested in the art of medicine. He graduated from the University of Michigan. Holmes was married twice. Holmes was treated well there as well. He passed his exam to practice medicine. He was always treated well, he was smart. He was looked as an equal. This led Holmes to animal experiment and also used corpses as experimental subjects. Holmes also stole corpses and used them to make fake insurance claims. There were rumors that indicates that he was responsible for his friend’s death. That was the first rumored victim of Homes later on he got a job in a pharmacy. Which Holmes convinced the pharmacy wife’s owner to sell him the pharmacy due to his suppose claims that the owner had “passed away”, and it was rumored that he killed the owner of the pharmacy. Then one day the wife went missing, to which Holmes claimed that she had moved to California. But it’s

Holmes decides to convince Pitezel to take out a very large life insurance policy to scam an insurance company by staging Pitezel’s death and substituting another corpse in his place, which he assured Pitezel he would had no trouble getting ahold of. In all reality, this was Holmes’ way of getting out of the predicament he had put himself in by trusting someone too much. In November of 1893, Holmes and Pitezel leave Chicago to travel across the country and commit frauds along the way. In July of 1894, Holmes attempts to swindle another pharmacy in Saint Louis, Missouri, just as he had done when he first got to Chicago. This time, on the other hand, it does not work out for Holmes. Holmes, for the first time ever in his criminal career, he is behind bars. While in jail, he meets Marion Hedgepeth, whom he shared a jail cell with. Holmes shares the insurance swindle plan with Hedgepeth, who “gave Holmes the name of a twisted attorney that could put over an insurance swindle” (Hounded to death by ghosts of the castle he built, 1914, p. 19, col. 1-7). Holmes promises Hedgepeth five hundred dollars for the hook up with the attorney if the attorney can make the plan happen. Holmes ends up being bailed out of prison by his third wife, Georgianna Yoke, after Holmes told her false reasons why he was arrested in the first place. Once again, Holmes has received another lucky charm where he could have been in jail for much longer, and perhaps put away forever.

The following quote supports this theme because the discovery of that carbon monoxide cannot be absorbed by a body after death led to innovations in forensic science in the courtroom. Ever since forensic sciences had started, they were not really taken seriously as evidence in the courtroom. Often forensic toxicologists were forced to prove themselves to jurors by poisoning cats or swaying flasks of chloroform in front of them to prove their work. Now, they would be taken seriously with a testimony and statistics. Through experiments with deceased people and carbon monoxide Gettler proved that “soaking in carbon monoxide for hours after death had no effect at all…without breath, carbon monoxide was just another gas aimlessly swirling in the air” (144). This connects to biology because you need to be able to inhale carbon monoxide for it to have an effect on you. Once breathed in, carbon monoxide bonds to the transport protein hemoglobin, muscling oxygen out of its path. The result is carboxyhemoglobin, which is transported to your cells through the bloodstream. You soon die because your cells are staved of

Sherlock Holmes’s intelligence is demonstrated in both “The Red-Headed League” and “A Scandal in Bohemia”. During “A Scandal in Bohemia” he first demonstrates his intuitive thinking by figuring out that Count Kramm, the man introducing him on the case, is actually the King of Bohemia himself. This shows that he is able to make a quick determination about people’s lives just by having a brief conversation with them. This allows Holmes to solve mysteries that others cannot by simply looking at a suspect or location associated with the scenario. He uses this ability later in the story to find where the incriminating photo of the king with Adler is. He does this by creating a situation for himself where he will be able to get into Adler’s home. He then fakes a fire to see where Adler goes first so he can see where she keeps her most valuable possession, the photo. Holmes states “When a woman thinks that her house is on fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she values the most… Now it was clear to me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious to her then what we are questing for” (Doyle 19). This line of thinking shows that Holmes knows how to get people to inadvertently give him the information that he needs by putting them in the right situation and observing what they do. This skill

Holmes was a charming, wealthy man with power. He was everything a woman could want. His looks drew the attention of susceptible women. He offered them jobs with good pay, a place to sleep, and much more. Not only was Holmes a good looking man, he was intelligent.

The homicide scene introduces Holmes's incredible reasoning processes. In a search to figure out the answer to a death, the local detectives call in Holmes. The man, who had a boarding pass for a flight that crashed the day before, appears suspiciously dead in the trunk of a car. Within thirty seconds of investigation, Holmes's observations lead him to over four conclusions. As Holmes searches through the contents found on the dead man's body, the point of view is placed directly through Sherlock's eyes. His eyes focus on intricate

Holmes reads a disguised note with the clues 534...C2...13...’Holmes interprets this as some crime about to occur.