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    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 bohemian

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    the fact that this character has been adapted and recreated from the original texts by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to films‚ stage plays‚ television series’ etc. The first text to be printed was in 1887 but due to Sherlock Holmes signature key elements‚ he has been endured enough to stay relevant to this very day. Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character created by British author‚ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a “consulting detective” in the stories‚ Holmes is best known for his proficiency

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    Sherlock Holmes is known to solve very hard mysteries that almost nobody can solve. But in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mystery story‚ “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”‚ he solved one mystery that nobody would have expected for who have caused it. Holmes figures out Dr. Roylott had caused Julia’s death. It all started when he noticed the bed was clamped to the floor‚ there was a bell pull that did not work‚ and there was a ventilator connected between Dr.Roylott’s and Julia’s room. During Holmes investigation

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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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    as C. Auguste Dupin After reading two famous amateur detective stories by Edgar Allan Poe and two by Arthur Conan Doyle‚ I found myself questioning the originality of Doyle’s stories as compared to Poe’s stories. The stories in question are "The Purloined Letter" and "Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Poe and "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" and "A Scandal in Bohemia" by Doyle. All four of these stories had very exciting story lines and had very interesting mysterious aspects . Since the Poe stories

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    NAME: Ishita Chaudhary [ishichaudhary@gmail.com] ROLL No.: 016 CLASS: SYBA ‘A’ I have taken up the brand of ‘Sherlock Holmes’‚ the character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‚ from its inception in the 19th century till present day. INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first introduced Sherlock Holmes to the reading public in 1887‚ nothing could have prepared him for the fact he had created a character who was destined to become the most famous detective in the world

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    maintain a clean appearance‚ but they live extremely differently. Poirot has a reputation for being tidy and coordinating his house to be “arranged with formal precision” (Christie‚ 75)‚ whereas Holmes’ is described as “one of the most untidy men” (Doyle‚ 585). Another difference between the two men is how social they are. Poirot is exceedingly friendly and can blend himself with all those he encounters‚ whether it be a group of gossiping women‚ the investigating police‚ or highly esteemed clients

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    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 (print

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    strived to accommodate the spiritual and paranormal within the domain of science and reason. At the same time‚ the Victorian era was marked by the rising awareness of the foreign influence and its consequences. In The Hound of the Baskervilles Conan Doyle explores both subjects to depict guilt as a force that stems from within and is spurred from without. As far as the family history goes‚ the Baskervilles are an old and cursed line haunted by the sins of their ancestor in form of a hellish beast. However

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    Contents Introduction……………………………………………………….…..…….3 Chapter 1: General overview of Grammar………………………….…….5 Chapter 1.1: The Subject as the Principal Part of the Sentence…………7 Chapter 2: Ways of Expressing the Subject…………….……….………12 Conclusion………………………………………………………..……….16 Bibliography…………………………………………………….………..18 Introduction The title of this term paper is “Ways of Expressing the Subject”. The main goal is to identify the main features of the subject in the sentence and to examine the subject and

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