Sherlock Holmes

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Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish-born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based consulting detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of "deductive reasoning" while using abductive reasoning (inference to the best explanation) and astute observation to solve difficult cases.

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[edit] Illustrations and Photographs

[edit] A Study in Scarlet

[edit] The Sign of the Four

[edit] The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

[edit] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

[edit] The Hound of the Baskervilles

[edit] The Return of Sherlock Holmes

[edit] The Valley of Fear

[edit] His Last Bow

[edit] The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

[edit] Statues

[edit] Book covers

[edit] Texts

[edit] French texts

[edit] Locations

[edit] Actors

[edit] Miscellany