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    respect and lifelong admiration. Arthur Conan Doyle seems to be chiefly interested in constructing puzzles in this series. How will Sherlock find the damning portrait? How will he retrieve it? Still‚ these stories are more than puzzles. They are sensational puzzles. The title A Scandal in Bohemia implies a glimpse at the lives of people outside normal society. What is the most scandalous thing that could happen amongst such people? Perhaps a proper marriage. Conan Doyle mentions that Holmes lives a

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    Marvel Avengers. He’s a real human being and you can feel with Sherlock Holmes as you can’t do with Superman‚ ‘Yeah‚ I could be like that’. The fictional character of Sherlock Holmes has been popular ever since he was created by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the late 1800s. Since then‚ Holmes has appeared in many films… Wendy: Why is he still so popular? is rit Roger: The main reason is that the original stories are so good. They’re very well written and they’re tremendous fun

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    A Professor: for Kids‚ Foster states that the blind needs a rescuer. Foster’s point is proven through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four‚ “The Adventure of the Speckled Band‚" and The Hound of the Baskervilles. In The Sign of Four‚ Sherlock Holmes is confronted with a past death and packages full of pearls sent to a woman named Ms. Morstan. Also‚ in The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle writes about a chain of murders to acclaim the wealth from the death of Sir Charles Baskerville. In “The Adventure

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    The Terrifying Importance of London’s Weather Through Sherlock Holmes In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories of Detective Sherlock Holmes‚ the city of London itself is an important character and has a very active role. The city interferes constantly with the story and places itself dominantly in the novels. It is important to note how the city of London is represented and what kind of role it plays in the tales of Detective Holmes. Looking into how the city not only seems to create its own crime

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    that the form reveals. This course fulfills GenEd Global requirement. Required texts (available in the University bookstore): * Deane Mansfield-Kelley and Lois Marchino‚ eds. The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2005) * Arthur Conan Doyle‚ The Sign of Four‚ ed. Peter Ackroyd (Penguin) * Vikram Chandra‚ Love and Longing in Bombay (Back Bay) * Miyuki Miyabe‚ All She was Worth (Houghton Mifflin) * Boris Akunin‚ The Winter Queen (Random House) Note: Other editions

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    the home clean and tidy‚ and if any‚ watch after the children as they grow older. Interestingly enough‚ as time progressed this very different and separated list of common roles for each gender has changed. In the novel A Scandal in Bohemia by Arthur Conan Doyle‚ women’s gender roles are tested by the men in the surrounding society whereas the only woman of value is Miss Irene Adler.

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    The story‚ “Adventure of a Speckled Band”‚ written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‚ portrayed a secretive detective story based on Sherlock Holmes. The story consisted of numerous characters that deprived in the passage. To illustrate‚ the main character‚ Sherlock Holmes‚ played a major role; following Dr.Watson‚ Dr.Roylott‚ as well as Helen Stoner‚ who were all incorporated into the unraveling mystery. In Stoke Moran‚ England‚ the perceptible situation had begun during the time period of April 1883.

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    not quite enough time to develop all of the new characters. However‚ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle adeptly solves this problem in the short story The Sign of Four‚ by creating symbolisms between the physical attributes of the characters and their more hidden features. The most prominent parallelisms are: the heart to emotional well being‚ the mind to the intellect‚ and the spleen to anxiety or a short temper. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has created a parallel between characters that are overflowing with negative

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    consistently listed Sherlock Holmes as the "most portrayed movie character" with 75 actors playing the part in over 211 films? There is something magical about the character of Sherlock Holmes created by the Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The image of the tall‚ thin man with a cape‚ carrying a magnifying glass and wearing a deerstalker is recognized immediately. He is the international icon for the detective‚ the crime-solver and the righter of wrongs. The Best of Sherlock

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    Anthony Verrastro Mr. O’Brien English Short Fiction L3 21 December 2012 Duchess of Death‚ Queen of Crime‚ Master of Murder The most sold fiction author is not William Shakespeare‚ not Edgar Allen Poe‚ nor is it J.K. Rowling. Agatha Christie is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the “Best Selling Fiction Author of All-Time” in 2007. As an author‚ she also holds a place in being called the “second best-selling author of all time” and “the second most translated book” only behind William

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