<h1><span style="text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px white;"><center>Unlock Sherlock</h1><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size: 20px; color: #F0FFF0; text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px white;">
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<span style="font-size: 22px; color: #F0FFF0; "> Who is Sherlock Holmes, you ask? Who is Sherlock Holmes?!?
Sherlock Holmes' name, for more than a century, has been known in every country of the world!
He is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He was devised by British author and physician {<span style=" text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px white;"> [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]].}
One of the most recognizable figures in English literature, Holmes is a consulting detective who lives at {<span style=" text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px white;"> [[221 B Baker Street]] } in Victorian London. Whenever the police have difficulty solving a case (which, Holmes often observes, is nearly all the time), they come seeking his advice. He also assists clients privately with the help of his close friend and roommate, { <span style=" text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px white;"> [[Dr. John H. Watson]]}.
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<span style="font-size: 22px; color: #F0FFF0; ">Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.
He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.
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<span style="font-size: 22px; color: #F0FFF0; ">London's most famous address, 221B Baker Street is a flat owned by [[Mrs Hudson]] who rents it out to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. The pair move into the flat together after only having known each other for a short period of time.
According to the published stories, "221B Baker Street" was a suite of rooms on the first floor of a lodging house above a flight of 17 steps. The main study overlooked Baker Street, and Holmes' bedroom was adjacent to this room at the rear of the house, with [[Dr. Watson->Dr. John H. Watson]]'s bedroom being on the floor above, overlooking a rear yard that had a plane tree in it.
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<span style="font-size: 22px; color: #F0FFF0; ">John H. Watson, known as Dr. Watson, is a fictional character in the Sherlock Holmes stories. He is a medical doctor who formerly served in the British Army. He is Sherlock Holmes' close friend, only confidant, assistant and sometimes flatmate. He is described as the typical Victorian-era gentleman, unlike the more eccentric Holmes. He is astute, although he can never match his friend's deductive skills.
He serves as a foil to Holmes: the ordinary man against the brilliant, emotionally-detached analytical machine that Holmes can sometimes be. With the two, [[Conan Doyle->Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]] created a clever literary pairing: two vivid characters, different in their function and yet each useful for his purposes.
<span style="font-size: 22px; color: #F0FFF0; ">Mrs Hudson is Sherlock Holmes' landlady. She makes occasional appearances in the original stories. Not much is known about Mrs Hudson. She is given no physical description or first name. She allows Sherlock and John to have the flat at lower cost than what it is worth. Despite repeated declarations that she is not their housekeeper, she fusses over Sherlock and they share somewhat of a 'mother-son' relationship.
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<center> [[Sherlock who?->Unlock]]
[[Character/Appearance->Appearance]]
[[Methods of Detection]]
[[Riddles]]
[[Adaptations]]
[[Fun Facts]]<center>
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<h2><center><span style="font-weight: bold; text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px white;">Fun Facts</h2>
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<span style="font-size: 30px; bold; color: #F0FFF0; ">1.</span> Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Homes, said that the character of this famous detective was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell. Bell was a famous lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh in the 19th century. In his lectures, Bell emphasized the importance of close observation in making a diagnosis. This became one of the well-known characteristics of Sherlock Holmes.
<span style="font-size: 30px; bold; color: #F0FFF0; ">2.</span> In 1999, Prof. John Radford used Sherlock Holmes's stories as data, and applied three different methods to estimate Sherlock Holmes's IQ! He concludes that Holmes' intelligence was very high indeed and is around 190 points.
<span style="font-size: 30px; bold; color: #F0FFF0; ">3.</span> In 1893, Conan Doyle decided to spend more time on writing historical novels and thus killed off Holmes in "The Final Problem". However, due to the public pressure, he had to bring back Holmes to life 8 years later in "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1901).
<span style="font-size: 30px; bold; color: #F0FFF0; ">4.</span> In 2002, the Royal Society of Chemistry presented an honorary fellowship to Sherlock Holmes for his use of forensic science & analytical chemistry in popular literature. This is the first and only time that a fictional character has received such honour.
<span style="font-size: 30px; bold; color: #F0FFF0; ">5.</span> The Guinness World Records has listed Sherlock Holmes as the "most portrayed movie character". Sherlock Homes has been portrayed by more than 70 actors in over 200 films.</span>
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<h4><center><span style="font-size: 25px; bold; color: #F0FFF0; ">Unlock Sherlock,</h4>You get
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<h2><center><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #F0FFF0;">Adaptations</h2>
<span style="font-size: 22px; color: #F0FFF0; ">Sherlock Holmes is such a popular character that there have been many theatrical stage, cinematic, television, novel, short story, comic book, graphic novel and even computer game adaptations of Conan Doyle's work over the years. A full list of adaptations can be found <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_Sherlock_Holmes#Television_series" target="_blank"><span style="text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px white;">here</a>, but the most famous adaptations in TV and Films are:
<li><span style="font-size: 20px;">Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) and its sequal Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011 film)
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<li><span style="font-size: 20px;">Sherlock (BBC TV Series 2010, 2012, 2014)<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WbFCiYykyII" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<li><span style="font-size: 20px;">Elementary (CBS TV series 2013, 2014, 2015)<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KN3uNgVNDGo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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Wear Sherlock's hat! SOLVE the riddles!
<li><span style="font-size: 20px;text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px white;">[[Riddle 1]]
<li><span style="font-size: 20px;text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px white;">[[Riddle 2]]
<li><span style="font-size: 20px;text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px white;">[[Riddle 3]]
<li><span style="font-size: 20px;text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px white;">[[Riddle 4]]
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<span style="font-size: 22px; color: #F0FFF0; ">What are the attributes which combine to make a person a world-famous legend? His achievements must surely be unforgettable and remarkable. He must be a brilliant and credible character whom people can believe in. He must be ageless in so far as dates of birth and death become irrelevant. He must enjoy everlasting fame.
Unforgettable. Brilliant. Ageless. Immortal. Can all these qualities be attributed to Sherlock Holmes? Undoubtedly!
The best way of appreciating the real character of Sherlock Holmes is to read his published adventures and form one's own opinion. We can then accompany Holmes and [[Watson->Dr. John H. Watson]] in their hansom cab, rattling over the cobbled streets of Victorian London, while they peer through the fog in search of adventure, justice, and criminals.
The hawk-like features and piercing eyes; the dressing-gown and pipe; the deerstalker cap and magnifying glass - these details are so familiar that if he were to appear amongst us today we should know him at once!
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<span style="font-size: 22px; color: #F0FFF0; ">{<span style=" text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px white;">[[Conan Doyle->Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]} made Sherlock Holmes a man of science and an innovator of forensic methods. Holmes is so much at the forefront of detection that he has authored several monographs on crime-solving techniques. In most cases the well-read Conan Doyle has Holmes use methods years before the official police forces in both Britain and America get around to them. Some of the most used methods include:<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 19px;">[[Finger Prints]]
<li><span style="font-size: 19px;">[[Typewritten Documents]]
<li><span style="font-size: 19px;">[[Handwriting]]
<li><span style="font-size: 19px;">[[Footprints]]
<li><span style="font-size: 19px;">[[Ciphers]]
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<h2><center><span style="font-weight: bold;">Finger Prints</h2>
Sherlock Holmes was quick to realize the value of fingerprint evidence. The first case in which fingerprints are mentioned is //The Sign of Four//, published in 1890, and he’s still using them 36 years later in the 55th story, //The Three Gables// (1926). Scotland Yard did not begin to use fingerprints until 1901.
It is interesting to note that {<span style=" text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px white;">[[Conan Doyle->Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]} chose to have Holmes use fingerprints but not bertillonage (also called anthropometry), the system of identification by measuring twelve characteristics of the body. That system was originated by Alphonse Bertillon in Paris. The two methods competed for forensic ascendancy for many years. The astute Conan Doyle picked the eventual winner.
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<h2><center><span style="font-weight: bold;">Typewritten Documents</h2>
As the author of a monograph entitled “The Typewriter and its Relation to Crime,” Holmes was of course an innovator in the analysis of typewritten documents. In the one case involving a typewriter, //A Case of Identity// (1891), only Holmes realized the importance of the fact that all the letters received by Mary Sutherland from Hosmer Angel were typewritten — even his name is typed and no signature is applied. This observation leads Holmes to the culprit. By obtaining a typewritten note from his suspect, Holmes brilliantly analyses the idiosyncrasies of the man’s typewriter. In the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) started a Document Section soon after its crime lab opened in 1932. Holmes’s work preceded this by forty years.
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<h2><center><span style="font-weight: bold;">Handwriting</h2>
Using handwriting analysis, Holmes is able to tell gender, make deductions about the character of the writer, and even compare two samples of writing and deduce whether the persons are related. This is another area where Holmes has written a monograph (on the dating of documents). Handwritten documents figure in nine stories. In //The Norwood Builder//, Holmes can tell that Jonas Oldacre has written his will while riding on a train. Reasoning that no one would write such an important document on a train, Holmes is persuaded that the will is fraudulent. So immediately at the beginning of the case he is hot on the trail of the culprit.
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<h2><center><span style="font-weight: bold;">Footprints</h2>
Holmes also uses footprint analysis to identify culprits throughout his fictional career, from the very first story to the 57th story (//The Lion’s Mane// published in 1926). Fully 29 of the 60 stories include footprint evidence. The //Boscombe Valley Mystery// is solved almost entirely by footprint analysis. Holmes analyses footprints on quite a variety of surfaces: clay soil, snow, carpet, dust, mud, blood, ashes, and even a curtain. Yet another one of Sherlock Holmes’s monographs is on the topic (“The tracing of footsteps, with some remarks upon the uses of Plaster of Paris as a preserver of impresses”).
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<h2><center><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ciphers</h2>
Sherlock Holmes solves a variety of ciphers. In //The “Gloria Scott”// he deduces that in the message that frightens Old Trevor every third word is to be read. A similar system was used in the American Civil War. It was also how young listeners of the Captain Midnight radio show in the 1940s used their decoder rings to get information about upcoming programs.
Holmes’s most successful use of cryptology occurs in //The Dancing Men//. His analysis of the stick figure men left as messages is done by frequency analysis, starting with “e” as the most common letter. Holmes’s monograph on cryptology analyses 160 separate ciphers.
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Difficulty ★★☆☆☆
<span style="font-size: 22px; color: #F0FFF0; ">After one of Mrs Hudson's less than appetizing meals
Doctor Watson was feeling out of sorts and decided to
retire early. By 8.30pm he was fast asleep, having previously
wound up and set his faithful old alarm clock to
wake him at 9.30am. He slept soundly until the alarm
woke him.
How many hours' sleep did Watson get?
Do not look at the [[answer->answer 2]] before even trying!
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Difficulty ★★★☆☆
<span style="font-size: 22px; color: #F0FFF0; ">Sherlock is called upon on a crime scene. A woman has been killed and there are only three suspects to the murder, the three people who were present on the scene.
Alice, the best friend of the woman who was present for a night out.
Debra, who was accompanying Alice.
Sia, who is the house maid.
A note is found in the hands of the victim, which reads:
'Second of January, Third of July, Fourth of April, Second of October, Fourth of December'
The note was all Sherlock needed to find out who was the killer. Can you find the killer too?
<li><span style="font-size: 20px;">[[Alice?]]
<li><span style="font-size: 20px;">[[Debra?]]
<li><span style="font-size: 20px;">[[or maybe Sia?]]
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Difficulty ★★★★☆
<span style="font-size: 22px; color: #F0FFF0; ">One snowy night, Sherlock Holmes was in his house sitting by a fire. All of a sudden a snowball came crashing through his window, breaking it.
Holmes got up and looked out the window just in time to see three neighborhood kids who were brothers run around a corner. Their names were John Crimson, Mark Crimson and Paul Crimson.
The next day Holmes got a note on his door that read '? Crimson. He broke your window.'
Which of the three Crimson brothers should Sherlock Holmes question about the incident?
<li><span style="font-size: 20px;">[[John Crimson]]
<li><span style="font-size: 20px;">[[Mark Crimson]]
<li><span style="font-size: 20px;">[[Paul Crimson]]
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Difficulty ★★★★★
Hint: [[Ciphers]] method
<span style="font-size: 22px; color: #F0FFF0; ">Sherlock, A detective who was mere days from cracking an international smuggling ring has suddenly gone missing. While inspecting his last-known location, you find a note:
710 57735 34 5508 51 7718
Currently there are 3 suspects: Bill, John, and Todd. Can you break the detective's code and find the criminal's name?
Do NOT disappoint Sherlock! Use your mind before looking at the [[answer->answer 4]]!
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<span style="font-size: 22px; color: #F0FFF0; "> Bill. If you read the message upside down, you'll notice that the numbers resemble letters and that those letters form legible sentences. The message is 'Bill is boss. He sells oil.'
I hope you made Sherlock proud!
<span style="font-size: 22px; color: #F0FFF0; ">WRONG Answer! Think again, you have two other suspects!
<span style="font-size: 22px; color: #F0FFF0; ">How SMART!! Right Answer! Mark Crimson is the one to be questioned!
"?" = question MARK, so the note on the door reads "Question Mark Crimson. He broke your window."
<span style="font-size: 22px; color: #F0FFF0; ">WRONG Answer! Think again, you have two other suspects!
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You are totally right!! The killer is Alice.
The number in front of the month's name in the note actually points towards the position of a particular letter in every month.
Second of January = A
Third of July = L
Fourth of April = I
Second of October = C
Fourth of December = E.
Thus, the name is Alice.
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Nope! Sherlock does not agree!
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Nope! Sherlock does not agree!
<span style="font-size: 22px; color: #F0FFF0; ">One hour!
(His alarm clock couldn't differentiate between am and pm).
That was easy, right?