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'Sherlock Holmes'
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional
detective created by British author
Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to
himself as a "consulting detective"
in the stories, Holmes is known for
his proficiency with observation,
deduction, forensic science and
logical reasoning that borders on
the fantastic, which he employs
when investigating cases for a wide
variety of clients, including Scotland
Yard.
 His most brilliant deductions
In the first episode, A Study in Scarlet,
we get to see Sherlock take on his first
crime scene investigation. He strolls
into the middle of a police
investigation and demands time alone
with the body. Then he begins
deducing and works out almost
everything about the victim. Her job,
her family history, her infidelity.

Again the ways in which he works this all out is

genius. The trim of her coat is damp but it hasn't
rained in London, Sherlock checks the forecast and
figures out she has come from Cardiff.
Towards the climax of the episode John and Sherlock chase a taxi
through the streets of London. They are someway behind the taxi but
by the end they have managed to catch up with it. In this scene, we get
to see Sherlock's mind laid out on a map of London. The alternate
routes of the taxi and the two men, is mapped out as an overlay to
images of John and Sherlock running after the car. This serves to show
us Sherlock's incredible memory as well as his encyclopaedic
knowledge of the streets of London.
 In another episode
Sherlock visits the
apartment of a banker
called Van coon. The
police believe that he
has shot himself but
Sherlock is adamant
Sherlock looks around his
that he was murdered.
apartment and notices that all
He comes to this
his items, such as coffee tables
conclusion by deducing
and mugs, are on the left hand
that he was left handed
side and so this tells him his
and therefore could not
hand preference. That is what
have shot himself from
makes this deduction so
the right angle.
brilliant.
And now i would like to
tell you about my
favourite deduction. It is
just completely random
and no 'normal' person
could ever solve it. This
just underlies the
brilliance of Sherlock
Holmes. Sherlock is
called in, as part of
Moriarty's game, to
investigate a body that
has washed up on the
shore of the Thames.
After a short investigation of the body Sherlock
states that the lost Vermeer painting that has
been found in London is a fake. This deduction
seems completely ridiculous as it is such a
random conclusion to come to from the corpse
of an unrelated, dead man. However, once
Sherlock explains it does begin to make sense.
The man has ticket stubs in his pocket from the
National Gallery. This tells Sherlock that he
works there as he did not have full tickets.
Sherlock knows of a killer that has
been in the area and this convinces
him that the man had found out
something that he shouldn't have
done. This is the opposite end of the
spectrum as this deduction is far
from simple. However, it is still
equally brilliant.
Thank you for
attention!