... Doyle began publishing short stories featuring Holmes in various magazines (Carr 15). Conan Doyle modeled Holmes after one of his medical school professors, Joseph Bell. Bell used the power of deductive reasoning and observation to diagnose patients even before speaking to them. Conan Doyle also modeled Dr. Watson, Holmes's sidekick and narrator of the stories, after himself (Pearson 14). Soon, he began ... ; 32). Dr. Watson represents the reader in the story, which means that knowing what Dr. Watson knows the reader should also figure out everything through deductive reasoning. Sir Arth...

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... experience with detective work. It is also because Dupin is able to reach conclusions which a rational mind would not. This paper contends that Dupin's otherworldly knowledge and perfect combination of deductive reasoning and leaps of faith make him the ideal hero within the detective stories that Poe creates. What Paris considers as an "insoluble mystery "(51), Dupin considers a game. He in fact ... ...

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... was the perfect Victorian. The main character was based on one of Conan Doyle's professors while he was at university, John Bell. Bell was an expert in the use of deductive reasoning which Conan Doyle found very impressive and obviously very inspiring as he used these same principles when creating Sherlock Holmes. Others were obviously inspired by this way of thinking as ... ...

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