Sherlock Holmes

 

 

Sherlock Holmes

  • Featured in :
    • A Study in Scarlet (1887)
    • The Sign of Four (1890)
    • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
    • The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893)
    • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901)
    • The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1904)
    • The Valley of Fear (1914)
    • His Last Bow (1917)
    • The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927)
      • by
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
 

Biography

Sherlock Holmes is the world's greatest detective, and the world's first Consulting detective. He is consulted by police and other private detectives, as well as occasionaly taking on cases directly from clients, who range from kings to paupers. His use of deductive method and encyclopedic knowledge of crimes allow his to solve the most complex cases. By 1898 his is presumed to be death by the world at large, but his arch-enemy Professor Moriarty knows that he is alive and well and back in London.

 

 

 

 

OBSERVATION

Judging from the logo on Holmes' cigarette case, working for MI5 is a family business.

 

OBSERVATION

There is a statue of Sherlock Holmes in MI5 headquaters in 1899, thus confiming his connection with one of the leagues (V2#3).

 

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C. Auguste Dupin

Arsene Lupin

A.J. Raffles

Rouletabille

M. Vidocq

  

 

Sherlock Holmes had worked with at least two other dectectives mentioned in the pages of the LoEG when he was part of the "Society of Infallible Detectives", created by Carolyn Wells in her story "The Adventure of the Clothes-Line" (The Century, May 1915 issue). They are presided over by Holmes, and their membership includes Jacques Futrelle's S.S. Van Dusen, aka "The Thinking Machine," E.W. Hornung's Raffles, Maurice LeBlanc's Arsene Lupin, Edgar Allen Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, Gaboriau's M. Vidocq, Philip Trent's Luther Trant, William MacHarg and Edwin Balmer's Luther Trant, Arthur Reeve's Craig Kennedy, and Gaston Leroux' Rouletabille.

Text of "The Adventure of the Clothes-Line" available thanks to Michael Norwitz :

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