... . Doyle flashes this warning at the beginning of A Study in Scarlet when Stamford cautions Watson (and the reader) that "Holmes is a little too scientific for my tastes--it approaches to cold-bloodedness". Clearly we are to be wary of this queer fellow, this "walking calendar of crime," for he may be hazardous to our humanistic and literary health. Why, then, do ... line ever is: "I have found a re-agent which is precipitated by haemoglobin, and by nothing else!" To make Holmes palatable to mass audiences, screenwriters, playwrights, and actors realize that the cold, logical facade must ...

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