Essays on Sherlock Holmes

Why are they lying, and what is the truth which they are trying so hard to conceal? Let us try, Watson, you and I, if we can get behind the lie and reconstruct the truth. – Sherlock Holmes, Esq. Sherlock Holmes is renowned for observing...

I have studied five of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes mystery stories. A mystery story is a piece of fiction writing where the crime of some kind is central to its plot. By that I mean the crime is a significant part of the story,...

In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles (HOB), Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are immersed in a setting that appears to transcend the known limits of the physical world. A demoniacal hound roaming the moors of Devonshire is rumored to have been...

Living in a world surrounded by people whom function in a different way could cause one to feel left out, but finding another person, fiction or non-fiction that shares similar characteristics can help solve that issue. In Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog...

A commonality among most of the human race is the fear of what aging does to the body. Crafting a character famous for a sharp mind, not for bodily infirmity, Arthur Conan Doyle brought Sherlock Holmes to life and into the homes of many through...

In the novel A Study in Scarlet, we observe the relationship between Dr. John Watson, a retired Anglo-Afghan war veteran, and Sherlock Holmes, whom we first learn of as a man that works at a chemical laboratory in the hospital. Within the first chapter of...

Living in a world surrounded by people who function in a disparate way could cause one to feel neglected, but finding another person, fiction or non-fiction that shares similar characteristics can help one feel valuable. In Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in...

Dr. Watson plays a paramount role in the accomplishments of Sherlock Holmes, as a sidekick and as a friend. Their friendship is extraordinarily vital as it is the only normal thing in Holmes’ life. The character of Dr. Watson is used as a foil1 since...

To understand the use and impact that Watson, the narrator, had on the story we must examine the other options commonly used during Doyle’s time, for similar stories. The two other narrative structures Doyle could have used were Holmes’s first-person narrative or the omniscient narrator....