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    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Character Sherlock Holmes

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    In eight pages this paper discusses the role model represented by Doyle's famous private eye Sherlock Holmes. Seven sources are listed in the bibliography.

    Name of Research Paper File: TS14_TEsholme.rtf

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    choose from a range of cartoon characters originating in comic books to major police men of our time such as J Edgar Hoover, or forward looking Judges such as Lord  Denning. However, there has been one major figure that has been principally responsible for my ideas and views on criminal justice, criminology and aspects of investigation. This was a fictional  character, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle over a century ago. He is the master detective himself Mr Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective who resided at 221b Baker Street London, England.  The figure of Sherlock Holmes is well known, with the image of the deerstalker hat and the pipe. However, there are few character  studies of this man or they way he was able to capture his adversaries. Holmes has faced many a master criminals who  has forced the master detective into tight corners and even instances of potential death. However the master detective like all "super" heroes rises like phoenix from the ashes of despair  and defeats his enemies with simple deductory arts. His hall mark is the use of logical deduction, eliminating what is impossible and leaving only what is possible, even where it  may be improbable in order to find the solution. In catching the culprit it is also worth noting that he is usually saves an innocent suspect from being arrested or  taking the blame. Sherlock Holmes is known through out the world as the model private detective, or as a consulting detective, this  is how he is described in the first pages of a "Study in Scarlet" which were published in Beetons Christmas Annual in 1887. Arthur Conan Doyle the creator of Britians 

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