The Character of the Hero and His Detective Skills in Stories of Sherlo

The Character of the Hero and His Detective Skills in Stories of Sherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes is a well-known and loved detective who features insixty-eight of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles celebrated detective stories.Written in the early 19c and set in London, the adventures of Holmesand his companion Dr Watson (with whom shared a flat with during someof the tales) are ingeniously written. Conan Doyle was born in 1859 inEdinburgh, Scotland he went to Stonyhurst School and did a degree inmedicine at Edinburgh University. He began writing during the time hewas in medical do using it as a way to pass the time he had freeduring his work. However his writing soon took over from medicine andhe became known for it. Conan Doyle was influenced by Edgar Allan Poewho similarly to Conan Doyle created a detective with odd habits andamazing powers of deduction, which are two of the recognisablecharacteristics of Sherlock Holmes.In all of his many adventures Holmes uses interesting and unusualdet ective skills including disguise (A Scandal In bohemia) (this isthe story of a King from Germany who was involved with a woman by thename of Irene Adler she has in her possession a picture of herself andthe King which she is planning to reveal before the king plannedwedding to a Princess daughter to another king, Holmes plans toretrieve it and return it to the King.) and very effective powers ofobservation (The Speckled Band) (a story of a family Named Roylott .One of the daughters of Dr. Roylott had suffered from a suspiciousdeath the previous year prior to her forthcoming wedding when she hadbeen found dying(p) by her sister she had given her last words of it wasthe band, the Speckled band. Her s... ...ite different as Holmes gets aresult from sitting in Dr. Roylotts house all shadow he sends the snake in the grassthrough the vent just as Holmes had anticipated and prepared formeaning he was ready to attack when it emerged. He swiped at the snakeand sent it back into the Drs r oom causing it to kill him. This was apositive result for Holmes as he had prevented a young woman frombeing killed.in person I prefer different elements in each story. I wish well thetension and drama that is shown throughout The Speckled Band but Ilike the way also that there is a lot of wit and intelligence in aScandal In Bohemia with people scheming and plotting there is a lotof planning but it does not put up the dark qualities of The SpeckledBand. I think these are two very different stories and although theyhave similar structures the eventual outcome is very different.