... left home and went to the Jesuit Preparatory school named Hodder House. This was a boarding school for young boys. Arthur hated this school. Doyle once stated that Hodder House "was a little more pleasant than being confined in a prison." While attending Hodder House, he studied chemistry, poetry, geometry, arithmetic, and grammar. After his experiences at Jesuit Preparatory school, he left and applied ... After writing all of these stories, he finally became involved in writing all of his Sherlock Holmes novels and other short stories. The first Sherlock Holmes novel was A Study in Sca...

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... a warning label, but many people use the product anyway. 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 ... the most beloved literary detective of all time? Doyle himself provided the best answer in 1921 when he explained with characteristic modesty: "If my little creation of Sherlock Holmes has survived longer perhaps than it deserved, I consider that it is very largely due to tho...

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Sherlock Holmes is a fictional British character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first published appearance in the 1887 Beeton's Christmas Annual, in the short story A Study in Scarlet. The character of Sherlock Holmes works as a "consulting detective" both for london metropolitan police and for private hire. He is not an official police detective nor does he ... one who truly qualifies as a friend. As Holmes put it's himself, "I was never a very sociable fellow, Watson. I always rather fond of moping in my rooms and working out my own little methods of thought, so that I never mixed much...

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