About Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Gregory House

Holmes and House

To those who love Sherlock Holmes might have become fan to the Dr Gregory House since House is the clone. Or some of you might become fan to the actor, Hugh Laurie.

Or you might like the other 75 other actors who had played Sherlock Holmes in 211 films. This consistency had brought Sherlock Holmes name into the Guinness World Records as the most portrayed movie character.

But what we want to discuss today is not about the films or the world record. The Crime Circle team only wants to talk about one character, Dr House.

We interested in how he managed to adapt Holmes skills and practice it in the medical world. His observation skill had helped him handle the simple cases and given him time to concentrate in more challenge cases.

Imagine if you can adapt it in your professional world. How good you could be?

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Why Sherlock Holmes?

Sherlock Holmes debut in the 'A Study in Scarlet'

Everybody knows that Sherlock Holmes is just a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle character, an infamous detective character that live until today in the books, movies and people’s fantasies.

He was born in 1887 at the state of Beeton’s Christmas Annual in the district of ‘A Study in Scarlet.’ He was claimed to be the first forensic scientist by some of his fans.

Despite there are a lot of discussion over that claim including in this blog, Crime Circle could not deny the fact that the character and its story had given huge contribution  in developing crime detection skills.

Among the skills and crime detection method applied by him in his story was serology (scientific study of blood serum and other bodily fluids), fingerprinting, firearm identification, and questioned document-examination.

But Crime Circle believed the most important skill he had was observation. With this skill, he can make a really good guest, he can identify people surround him and he can detect danger.

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Does Sherlock Holmes the first’s Forensic Scientiest or Criminalist?

Writing about Sherlock Holmes in the Crime Circle just after launching of the blog had brought me to realise, there are a lot of people affected by the genius of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s masterpiece.

There are people who wish to be like Holmes since their childhood including me. Therefore, I launch this special project which I called Behind Sherlock Holmes.

What I dig in this project is not how to copycat his style because it easy and his detective kit can be buying at the Amazon.com. What I looking for is studying his skill and the impact to the real world.

Before me going further, I love to find answer to this question: “Does Sherlock Holmes the first’s forensic scientist or criminalist?”

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Does the Real Sherlock Holmes Solved Eugene Marie Chantrelle’s Case?

Eugene Marie Chantrelle was the first person to be hanged in Edinburgh’s Calton Jail on 31st May 1878. He was convicted murder his wife by poisoning.

But the main question and keep being discussed until today is who solved the case? Does the Real Sherlock Holmes, Dr Joseph Bell involved in the investigation?

Dr Joseph Bell’s name, which was said to be the model for Sherlock Holmes, did not appear in the official document of the Chantrelle case but the killer’s statement at the end of his life had brought the possibility.

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Sherlock Holmes Canon

Sherlock Holmes had appeared in 4 novels and 56 short stories under Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Here is the list for your reference.

Novels:

  1. A Study in Scarlet
  2. The Sign of Four
  3. The Hound of Baskersvilles
  4. The Valley of Fear

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Sherlock Holmes: Based on true story or coincidence

The whole world knows who is Sherlock Holmes, heard his story and most of us try to be like him, imitating him. Push ourselves to be as genius as he is.

Despite his character was first introduce in 1887, his story still live and relevance with our dream, after more than 120 years. His stories still manage to enter the market.

This impact shows how genius Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in creating the character and influence our live. But does Sherlock Holmes is just a fiction or his character was created based on real person?

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