Sherlock Holmes Research Paper

Holmes was born on May 16, 1861 in Gilmanton, New Hampshire (Biography 1). He did not have a very enjoyable childhood growing up. When he was younger the idea of torturing animals at his house gave him pleasure. Which got him interested in

The representations of Holmes in the BBC and CBS series are solid. Nonetheless, they have their drawbacks. The Miller-Homes at times let’s his overconfidence get the best of him. Due to him boasting to Watson that he was able to bypass her phone’s passcode; because

The first example of Holmes’ exquisite trademarks is his ability to see things that other people cannot. He uses his powers of observation to solve cases. For example, in “The Red-Headed League” Holmes notes that Mr. Jabez Wilson “has at some time done manual labor… that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China…” To explain his reasoning, he says “Your right hand is quite a size larger than your left… the muscles are more developed… rather against the strict rules of your order, you use an arc-and-compass breastpin…the fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right wrist could only have been done in China.” The fact that these observations are so obvious to Holmes, whilst being unnoticed by Watson and Wilson, make his observational skills something that stands out from other fictional detectives of the time. He uses these skills throughout his cases to his advantage with great success.

interview with Dr. Marshall, Mr. Holmes said “I would see them high. I was scared but I ain’t have nowhere to go.” Exhibit A p. 11. Mr. Holmes was violently stabbed in the chest by his brother, which punctured his lungs, when Mr. Holmes refused to give him money to purchase drugs, requiring surgery and hospitalization.

Larson uses extreme detail to make the reader fully understand the evil in Holmes and gain a grasp of Holmes’s mind and inner thoughts. Holmes “admitted to killing 27 people” however, there is no proven number. He at least murdered 9 people but estimates range as high as 200.This means that his violence was not limited to a certain number of people there is a high range of doubt to who died by Holmes’s hand . Next we see the distortion within holmes. He describes himself as “ believing that he is resembling the devil” this further adds to his earlier point of him being “born with the devil inside him”.(109)This further proves the issues holmes has mentally.

“They tend to share certain key characteristics. They're manipulative, cold, and lack what we might call a moral compass--they know right from wrong but are not invested in that distinction. Their only concern with their ‘wrong’ behavior is getting caught, but because they are deceitful, callous and not subject to anxiety, they easily elude capture” (Spikol, 5). These sort of criminals were ones that the Chicago Police Department had never been introduced to before, causing them to change their entire perspective on cases once Holmes’ had passed. According to John Bartlow Martin, a writer for the “Harper’s Archive”, Holmes’ murder castle was filled with trapdoors, gas chambers, secret passageways, and even pits of acid used to get rid of bodies and other pieces of evidence. These were all things that the law enforcers had never even heard of in a story, much less seen or thought of in real life. It’s safe to say that Holmes drastically affected the police’s outlook on the cases in the near, and even far, future of criminals after his mystery; or at least part of his mystery had been

Many times Holmes was able to get what he wanted by what he told the many women in his life. He told lies to women for them to leave their husbands and convinced men to take out life insurance in Holmes’ name. He did all of this to increase his ability to move forward with his idea of his dream building. He was able to make people to place their trust in him. Julia Conner was one of the many women who put her trust in holmes and “reached for his hand” to let Holmes know that she had full trust in him (Larson 148).

Holmes wrote a history of himself, which he wrote, “ I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.”

4. Henry H. Holmes was a very dangerous, and disturbed man. He loved money and tricking people into thinking that he could be trusted. That’s why I believe that both money, and control were possibly to two of his main motives. It is important to try to understand the motives of a person like Holmes so that situations similar to this can be avoided in the

Let us begin with Holmes. Holmes lived in Chicago and owned a pharmacy. He had medical training and loved money and women (Larson 36-37). He was able to smooth talk and gave people a sense of happiness. Holmes could convince people of anything, which he used as a way to sell stories as to why the people he killed had just disappeared. He also used this in constructing his building/hotel. He barely paid a dime because he convinced workers that their job was unsatisfactory (Larson 67). The furniture companies would come looking for H. S. Campbell, the alias he used as the owner of the building, and he would tell them he was out on business (Larson 71-72). A man named Belknap, the uncle of one of Holmes’s three wives, described him as “warm and ingratiating, but also telegraph that some important element of humanness is missing”. For a long time this was known as “moral insanity” and later the term psychopath was used (Larson 87-88). Holmes himself was intrigued by Jack the Ripper (Larson 70).

Holmes had a very manipulative personality. He used jealousy to get people to do things he didn't want to get caught up in. The major case where he used this method was in the murder of Nannie Williams. At the time, Holmes was apparently married to her sister, Minnie Williams. (The Ogden standard) According to a “Murder Castle” worker, ” “He took particular pains to increase her jealousy to work her up to the point of putting Nannie out of the way.” (Clarke 226) The story goes that Minnie thought Nannie had stolen her husband. She “struck her sister with a small foot-stool”, killing her. (Clarke 227) When H.H. Holmes was accused of murdering Minnie, he blackmailed her by tipping off Robert Corbett, the private detective in favor of Holmes. Corbett then claimed to “have full proof that Nannie Williams was killed by her sister.” (The Dalles daily chronicle) Holmes even blackmailed a train car worker when the worker discovered he was handling a trunk with a dead body inside. Holmes threatened to tell police that the man had “placed the corpse in the trunk”, “hauled it here”, and helped Holmes in his work. (Clarke 225) Holmes’ use of jealousy and blackmail helped him cleverly control those around

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.

Sherlock Holmes is a character created by British author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock is a legendary detective who solves even the most baffling and meticulously puzzled cases with astute observation, abductive reasoning and with little to no people skills. As a "consulting detective," he favors reason and logic above all else and rarely makes personal attachments beyond those that benefit him. He calls himself a "high functioning sociopath" because he does not make any acquaintance or understand emotions very well, beyond what can be studied.

In the story “A Scandal in Bohemia,” we get a glimpse of Holmes’s character, a natural mastermind, through John Watson's narration. As with any narrated scene, our perception of Holmes