1. Sherlock Holmes The Great Detective

2. Sherlock Holmes

3. Detective Story  Poe created the detective story  1841 Dupin  Brilliant  Solves by sheer mental powers  Eccentric  Prefers night to day  Burns candles

4. Elements of the Conventional Detective Story:  Crime discovered  Innocent person is suspected  Clues sorted out

5. Detectives:  Keen  Clever  Intelligent  Logical  Observant  Know all crimes  Quiet thinker  Not rash  Insightful  Good eye sight  Agile  Quick thinker

6. Crime Scene:  Secure and isolate the scene  Record the scene  Photography  Sketches  Notes  Search for evidence…physical  Collect and package evidence and label…must use gloves  Custody of evidence  Submit to lab

7. Physical Evidence:  Blood  Saliva  Documents  Drugs  Explosives  Fibers  Firearms  Glass  Hair  Paint  Gas residues  Plastic bags…garbage  Serial numbers  Soil and minerals  Tools  Vehicle….lights  Impressions  Shoe prints  Fingerprints  Ridge patterning –unique  Developed by French police…expert Alphonse Bertillon in 1883…body measurements  Unchanged during life

8. Biography of Sherlock Holmes  Born on 6th January 1854  The hawk-like features  Piercing eyes  Wore dressing-gown and had pipe  Wore deerstalker cap and had magnifying glass  Enigmatic figure…solving crimes

9. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  Born: May 22, 1859  OCCUPATION: Doctor and author  DEATH DATE: July 7, 1930  EDUCATION: University of Edinburgh…studied to be a doctor  Wrote: 60 stories about Sherlock Holmes

10. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  Doyle met and married his first wife, Louisa Hawkins in 1885…dies of TB  Doyle remarried Jean Leckie  He struggled to balance his medical career with his efforts to gain recognition as an author  Doyle later gave up medicine in order to devote all of his attention to his writing and his faith  Created Watson  Famous address 221B Baker Street  Study in Scarlet and The Hound of The Baskervilles