The main character in the novel is the private detective, Sherlock Holmes. He is presented through the viewpoint of his friend, Dr John Watson, the narrator of the story. Watson describes him as a ...
The first character in fiction to use a magnifying glass to help solve a case? You guessed it. 5. The proto-Sherlock Holmes was a doctor ... When Conan Doyle began sketching out the character ...
Moriarty, of course, is a character who grabs the reader’s attention just as much as his great foe. So much so, in fact, that when I came to write the first authorised Sherlock Holmes novel in a ...
Of all the fictional characters in the public domain, Dr. John Watson never seemed to be crying out for a moment in the spotlight. Watson has mostly been defined by his relationship to Sherlock Holmes ...