Sherlock Holmes: The American Years - Plot & Excerpts
We accept the convention of using the names “Sherlock Holmes” and “John H. Watson” for the Great Detective and the Good Doctor, knowing full well that the real identities of these individuals were concealed behind aliases with the connivance of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. We can deduce that Holmes’s year of birth was likely 1854, Watson’s a few years earlier. We know with reasonable assurance that the partnership of the two commenced in 1881; that in 1891, Holmes disappeared at the Reichenbach Falls, only to return in 1894; and that in late 1903 or 1904, Holmes retired. In his twenty-three years of active practice (according to his own accounts), he handled well over 500 cases of note, although records of only 56 have been made public. Two postretirement cases are chronicled, one in 1907 or 1908, and one commencing in 1912 and ending on the eve of the Great War in 1914. The world’s first consulting detective has left us little information about his ancestry and youth. His parents were “country squires,”
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