Sherlock Holmes is not merely an individualist ; ;

Holmes is addicted to the use of cocaine and other refreshing stimulants ; ;

Holmes is a public servant, to be sure ; ;

Although he is perfectly willing to cooperate with Scotland Yard, Holmes has nothing but contempt for the intelligence and mentality of the police.

They for their part are convinced that Holmes is too `` unorthodox '' and `` theoretical '' to make a good detective.

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

Watson's insight is verified by the mysterious link between Holmes and his arch-opponent, Dr. Moriarty.

What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.

Holmes went to Atlanta's Morehouse ( Negro ) College, where he is a B student and star halfback.

This short story follows Holmes as his program is rebooted on modern computers and he is forced to compete against his nemesis yet again in the modern counterparts of Babbage's Analytical Engine.

Chuck Holmes, foreign editor for NPR Digitial, said, “ I ’ m surprised and displeased, and it makes me wonder what other information is out-of-date or incorrect in the CIA World Factbook .”

Justice Holmes cautioned that “ the proper derivation of general principals in both common and constitutional law ... arise gradually, in the emergence of a consensus from a multitude of particularized prior decisions .” Justice Cardozo noted the “ common law does not work from pre-established truths of universal and inflexible validity to conclusions derived from them deductively ,” but “ ts method is inductive, and it draws its generalizations from particulars .”

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in his famous article, " The Path of the Law ", commented, " It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV.

" Justice Holmes noted that study of maxims might be sufficient for " the man of the present ," but " the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics.

Unlike Blackstone and the Restatements, Holmes ' book only briefly discusses what the law is ; rather, Holmes describes the common law process.

The most famous movie monsters are King Kong and Godzilla, the archetypical detective is Sherlock Holmes and most people's idea of a spy is James Bond.

The main difference between Ja ' far in " The Three Apples " and later fictional detectives such as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, however, is that Ja ' far has no actual desire to solve the case.

Although Sherlock Holmes is not the original fiction detective ( he was influenced by Poe's Dupin and Gaboriau's Lecoq ), his name has become a byword for the part.

A brilliant London-based " consulting detective " residing at 221B Baker Street, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning, and forensic skills to solve difficult cases.

According to Holmes Welch, " It is a famous puzzle which everyone would like to feel he had solved.

) This plot point was also used in a Sherlock Holmes story based on the Basil Rathbone era, where a friend of Dr. Watson's is a baronet who is due to receive his inheritance on the New Year's Day of the year where his twenty-first birthday will be celebrated, only for the law to deprive him of the money as he was born on February 29 ; with the 84-year-old Baronet distraught at the news that 1900 is not a leap year, Holmes helps the Baronet fake his death long enough for his grandson-who is the appropriate age to receive the inheritance-to establish his claim and receive the money himself.

It has become quite common today to identify Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., as the main precursor of American Legal Realism ( other influences include

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 ".

He is also implied to be quite charismatic as even Scotland Yard inspectors whom Holmes respects such as MacDonald express admiration for him.

Moriarty only appeared in one book because, quite simply, having him constantly escape would discredit Holmes, and would be less satisfying.

In Tales of Fatima, Rathbone portrayed himself in adventurous situations played for broad comedy, quite a departure for the actor from the stalwart Holmes.

Leno appeared at Drury Lane as Sister Anne in Bluebeard, a character described by Wood as " a sprightly, somewhat below middle aged person who was of a coming on disposition and who had not yet abandoned hope " The Times drama critic noted: " It is a quite peculiar and original Sister Anne, who dances breakdowns and sings strange ballads to a still stranger harp and plays ping-pong with a frying-pan and potatoes and burlesques Sherlock Holmes and wears the oddest of garments and dresses her hair like Miss Morleena Kenwigs, and speaks in a piping voice – in short it is none other than Dan Leno whom we all know ".

Holmes, noting all these things, Hosmer Angel's description, and the fact that he only seems to meet with Miss Sutherland while her disapproving youngish stepfather, James Windibank, is out of the country on business, reaches a conclusion quite quickly.

It was quite instructive to Holmes that Brunton had recently asked about the old elm tree's height as well, and that he was apparently quite intelligent.

Like Sherlock Holmes after his disappearance into the Reichenbach Falls, Raffles was never quite the same after his reappearance.

At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Čeplak finished very strongly in the 800 m but could not quite catch winner Kelly Holmes and finished with exactly the same time as Hasna Benhassi.

The beggar is arrested and locked up at the police station, and Holmes initially is quite convinced that Mr. St. Clair has been the unfortunate victim of murder.

( A minor detail is that the house was actually quite near the station ; Holmes realizes that the carriage drove " six out and six back " to disguise the house's location from Hatherley.

It meant nothing to Victor, and it was quite a while before Holmes saw anything in it.

Believing that they are alone, Smith is quite frank, and it soon emerges, to the hiding Watson ’ s horror, that Holmes has been sickened by the same illness that killed Smith ’ s nephew Victor.

* Holmes has started learning to play the violin during the opening scenes, and is quite frustrated that he has not mastered the instrument even after three days of practice and wants to smash the violin because he fears it will drive him insane.

He then examines the pieces, quite unaware that Holmes and Lestrade are sneaking up behind him.

Inspector Lestrade does quite a bit of gloating in this story, for it seems that he is on the right track and Holmes is not.

However, it makes Holmes quite sure that something very devious is afoot: Holmes examined that part of the house only a day earlier, and is quite sure that the thumbprint was not there then, and McFarlane has been in police custody since his arrest at Holmes's Baker Street rooms.

Lestrade, and Watson too, are also quite astonished at what happens next: the very much still living Mr. Oldacre emerges from a hidden chamber at the end of a hallway — where Holmes has deduced it must be — and runs to escape the fire.

Holmes takes an instant interest in this, seeing something that Forrester has missed: it is quite clear to Holmes that the fragment of a note was written by two men, each writing alternate words.