Another, more interesting explanation, is hinted at by Watson when he observes on several occasions that Holmes would have made a magnificent criminal.

Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories featuring Holmes, and all but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend, assistant, and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson.

In The Hound of the Baskervilles ( 1902 ), an escaped prisoner from Princetown serves as a red herring for Holmes and Watson.

They are in the Holmes and Watson tradition, with Dr. Petrie narrating the stories while Nayland Smith carries the fight, combating Fu Manchu more by dogged determination than intellectual brilliance ( except in extremis ).

Asked about his favorite scenes, Burton answered that he especially liked holodeck adventures: " The Holmes and Watson episodes for Data and Geordi, the Robin Hood episode, you know, those were a lot of fun for us.

All but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson ; two are narrated by Holmes himself (" The Blanched Soldier " and " The Lion's Mane ") and two others are written in the third person (" The Mazarin Stone " and " His Last Bow ").

In two stories (" The Musgrave Ritual " and " The Gloria Scott "), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, while Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story.

The first and fourth novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Valley of Fear, each include a long interval of omniscient narration recounting events unknown to either Holmes or Watson.

According to Holmes, it was an encounter with the father of one of his classmates that led him to take up detection as a profession, and he spent the six years following university working as a consulting detective, before financial difficulties led him to take Watson as a roommate, at which point the narrative of the stories begins.

Until the arrival of Dr. Watson, Holmes worked alone, only occasionally employing agents from the city's underclass, including a host of informants and a group of street children he calls " the Baker Street Irregulars ".

Holmes shares the majority of his professional years with his good friend and chronicler Dr. Watson, who lives with Holmes for some time before his marriage in 1887, and again after his wife's death.

In all, Holmes is described as being in active practice for 23 years, with Watson documenting his cases for 17 of them.

In " His Last Bow ", Holmes has retired to a small farm on the Sussex Downs in 1903 – 1904, as chronicled by Watson in his preface to the series of stories entitled " His Last Bow.

The story features Holmes and Watson coming out of retirement one last time to aid the war effort.

Watson describes Holmes as " bohemian " in habits and lifestyle.

According to Watson, Holmes is an eccentric, with no regard for contemporary standards of tidiness or good order.

In The Musgrave Ritual, Watson describes Holmes thus:

Even so, it is obvious that Watson has stricter limits than Holmes, and occasionally berated Holmes for creating a " poisonous atmosphere " of tobacco smoke.

Holmes himself references Watson's moderation in " The Adventure of the Devil's Foot ", saying, " I think, Watson, that I shall resume that course of tobacco-poisoning which you have so often and so justly condemned ".

Holmes is pleased when he is recognised for having superior skills and responds to flattery, as Watson remarks, as a girl does to comments upon her beauty.

Holmes is a loner and does not strive to make friends, although he values those that he has, and none higher than Watson.

Holmes says, " I was never a very sociable fellow, Watson, always rather fond of moping in my rooms and working out my own little methods of thought, so that I never mixed much with the men of my year ;... my line of study was quite distinct from that of the other fellows, so that we had no points of contact at all ".

Conan Doyle stated that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

Early in his career he worked as an illustrator for magazines like the Boy's Own Paper and Judy, drew comic strips, including the Sherlock Holmes parody " Chubb-Lock Homes " for Comic Cuts, and wrote articles for Punch under the pseudonym " W. Bird ".

Doyle said that the character of Sherlock Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

Certainly, in the course of his career Holmes had worked for both the most powerful monarchs and governments of Europe ( including his own ) and various wealthy aristocrats and industrialists and had also been consulted by impoverished pawnbrokers and humble governesses on the lower rungs of society.

Norman Holmes Pearson, who worked for the Office of Strategic Studies in London during World War II, returned to Yale and headed the new American studies program, in which scholarship quickly became an instrument of promoting liberty.

The task of annotating the series was undertaken by Gaiman's friend Leslie S. Klinger of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes who worked from the original scripts given to him by Gaiman.

Upon his honorable discharge, Holmes moved to Los Angeles, where he worked in a variety of jobs, including selling goods door-to-door and tending the vats at a Coffee-Nips factory.

Holmes worked for the gang, frequently selling or delivering drugs for them.

Coinciding with the revival of his film career, Holmes and his partner and manager, Bill Amerson, were hired by VCX in 1984 where Holmes worked part-time as a line producer and director.

When the family moved to Easton in 1954, Holmes ' father went to Connecticut, where he worked as a gardener until his death in 1970.

On the same panel, Downey described how he worked long hours and many weekends to ensure the accuracy of his portrayal of Holmes so as to help make the film a success.

Holmes has worked as a session musician on several albums by Welsh artists including the debut album by Melys, and has produced several albums including the early releases of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.

He first worked as a private secretary to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. from 1911 to 1912.

Holmes became a student of James Jackson, a physician and the father of a friend, and worked part-time as a chemist in the hospital dispensary.

The same year, Holmes was approached by Martin Delany, an African-American man who had worked with Frederick Douglass.

Before beginning his musical career, Holmes worked as a hairdresser and chef.

He also worked as a film producer, overseeing a 1951 short film adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story The Man with the Twisted Lip.

Although Letts and Dicks were both planning on leaving at the end of the same season, it was they who worked closely on re-casting the role of the Doctor, in preparation to hand over to their successors, producer Philip Hinchcliffe and script editor Robert Holmes, who had been a long-time writer for the programme.

After staying on during the fifteenth season under Williams for a brief handover period, Holmes also left the programme, and his replacement, Anthony Read, worked with Williams, who was told to create a less violent and more humour-based approach, much to Baker's liking.

In the mid-1960s Britten was the lead guitarist of Australian rock group, The Twilights, He had worked with Cliff Richard for whom he co-wrote " Devil Woman " ( 1976 ) with Kristine Holmes.

Holmes attended the Saint Louis Priory School and the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he worked at WCHC, the campus radio station, and interned at WCCA-TV, Worcester's public access television station.

Holmes, the head of National Research Council ( and who had worked with Ward for many years at the U. S. Geological Survey ), as possibly being an agent of the German government determined to sow revolution in the US and among its troops.