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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes(Book Report)As a detective, Sherlock Holmes is widely known to the world. And even, Holmes becomes a synonym for the brilliant detective in our daily life. Meanwhile, the creator of this attractive character, Arthur Conan Doyle, was also the teller of all the cases that Holmes was involved in. This teller of tales, who lived a respectable life based on his own persistence of chivalry seemed something of an enigma to his friends and to the public. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and opened a clinic in Portsmouth. Actually, he was a Medicine Doctor, and not unsuccessful, but he preferred writing, and even gave up his medicine career. Before he decided to write a detective story in 1886, he had sold a few short stories.In 1887, Conan Doyle finished his first significant work, A Study in Scarlet. It was the first time that the super-observant, deductive Sherlock Holmes and his good-natured question-raising friend Dr. Watson were introduced to the world. And concurrently, Baker Street, where all the detection cases were associated with, and where the talented detective was said to live were known to the public. Conan Doyle produced a great deal of creative works throughout his magnificent life, including historical novels, science fiction stories, romances, plays, poetry and non-fiction. In all, Holmes appeared in fifty-six of his short stories and four of his novels. However, after The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was serialized in Strand Magazine, this great author became tired of his popular creation, and tried to kill off his hero in the fight against the main opponent, Professor Moriarty. But finally under the pressure from Holmes enthusiasts, Conan Doyle was compelled to revive him in 1903.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was written in1892. And it was consisted of twelve short stories, which were named as Scandal in Bohemia The Red-headed League” A Case of Identity” The Boscombe Valley Mystery” The Five Orange Pips” The Man with the Twisted Lip” The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle” The Adventure of the Speckled Band” The Adventure of the Engineers Thumb” The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor” The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet” The Adventure of the Copper Beeches”. And all of the stories took place after Dr. Watson had gotten married and moved away from Baker Street. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes began with the story named “The Scandal in Bohemia”. In this story, Dr. Watson pictured us a bachelors life in a detailed way. He described Holmess singular lifestyle of old books, the violin and cocaine, and his extraordinary powers of deduction and disguise as well. “The Scandal in Bohemia” was the story of how Holmes and Dr. Watson tried their best to get a photograph and compromising letters from the opera singer, named Irene Adler. And then, in “The Adventure of the Engineers Thumb”, while working for the secretive Colonel Stark, Holmes had to deal with the events that had led a hydraulic engineer to have his thumb chopped off. Next, in “The Five Orange Pips”, he exposed the plan that Ku Klux Klan members plotted to retrieve sensitive documents from the Openshaw family. To make matters worse, Ku Klux Klan members were be ordered to kill all of the Openshaw family in the process if necessary. Finally, in “Silver Blaze”, Holmes and Watson had to succeed in finding the prized racehorse, Silver Blaze, whose trainer had been killed and whom the Dartmoor authorities had failed to find.This collection of some of Holmes most fascinating cases included essential elements, like blackmail, murder and lost fortunes. And all the cases were interconnected with Holmess characteristic lifestyle. Of course, Holmes solved nearly every case. Nevertheless, in each case he had to admit a failure. In stead of making Holmes like a loser, these failures added lots of humanities to the particularly unbeatable Holmes. In fact, he was a little rude, arrogant, unfriendly, even cold, and easily bored. But nobody minds, on the contrary people like him and some of the Holmes enthusiasts are keen on him so much so that make every effort to prove that he was a real man who existed in the human history but not a fictional character that was made up by the author Conan Doyle. They keep a record of Holmess main activities according to the series of detective stories. Even in the early days, Conan Doyle received letters from readers who wanted to hire Holmes.After finishing reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, I came to know why so many people are crazy about Holmes. He was quite good at searching for clues and recomposing them. Conan Doyle showed Holmess great observation at the beginning of A Scandal in Bohemia. He told us that Holmes even noticed the number of the steps which led up from the hall to his room. And Holmes emphasized that it was the great difference between” see” and “observe” that led to his point where Watson failed. In addition, what appeared to others as chaos, however, was a wealth of useful information to Holmes. He was fairly knowledgeable and famous for his logical reasoning. Eventually, almost all of the cases were solved in 221B Baker Street. Conan Doyle didnt portray him as an all-rounder. He had many bad habits. Yet these disadvantages only made Holmes seem like a real man but not a fictional character. And still, he has charmed thousands of readers. Holmess methods of detection impress me, and also, I have learned a lot from it. In fact, he often employed several connected principles which were based on his great observation. And this kind of deductive reasoning allowed Holmes to reveal the pawnbrokers former occupation, the carpenter on a ship in The Red-headed League. From that, I know that Holmes had accumulated a wealth of experience before he succeeded. So I