B6: Arthur Conan Doyle

The “Sherlock Holmes” stories were not exactly what I had expected them to be, but I can certainly see the appeal of them to citizens of 19thcentury London. London was not necessarily the best place to be in the world during this time. With industrialization […]

Reading Sherlock Holmes, you can really see the importance of London in each of the short stories. When I think of mystery I think of the novels and shows that are located in cities like New York and even London.   Cities have everything, the culture, […]

London is to Holmes as Oxygen is to life. Holmes would be incomplete without London as his greatest companion. With the development of police professionals in the city of London, less crimes were being solved by crows of people on the street as seen in […]

This was the first time that I have ever read Arthur Conan Doyle’s short stories about Sherlock Holmes. To my surprise, the adventures are from the point of view of Sherlock Holmes’ partner in sleuthing, Watson. The Sherlock Holmes short stories are set in London […]

Endlessly snarky, a bit insufferable, and utterly genius, Sherlock Holmes is a man known intimately by many British and American readers alike. His legacy has grown to an enormous reach—in fact, with the multitude of successful adaptations like Warner Bros.’ Sherlock Holmes, BBC’s Sherlock, and […]

Sherlock Holmes is of course a very beloved character, and the setting of his stories being London seems to be a significant part of his character. Considering all that I’ve read so far about London in the novels and other texts (it is crowded, it […]