Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Holmes stories are narrated by Holmes' friend and roommate Dr. John Watson.

He was the featured detective of Volume 1 of the Detective Conan manga.

About

A brilliant London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning and forensic skills to solve difficult cases.

Holmes is famous for using small details, such as mud or water stains, to piece together the solution to a crime. He can use the same method to figure out someone's occupation. When he first met Watson, he was able to tell with a glance and a handshake that he was an army surgeon and had been to Afghanistan. He was also quite physically fit, skilled at boxing, fencing, and baritsu.

Although a fictional character, Shinichi Kudo looks up to him as the world's greatest detective. Shinichi admires his deductive skills, physical abilities, and even his love for the violin. It was to be more like Holmes that Shinichi played soccer and picked up the violin.

Allusions

• In the Roller Coaster Murder Case Shinichi tells Ran about Holmes' deduction about Watson when they first met and proceeds to demonstrate the process by grabbing the hand of the girl waiting in line in front of him for the Mystery Coaster, deducing that she's a gymnast. Ran is surprised until Shinichi explains that the calluses on her hand are from performing on the uneven bars and that he had seen odd bruising above the girl's legs when the wind lifted her skirt earlier.
• In the Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case a shrunken Shinichi uses Holmes' method of deduction (including recognizing mud stains) to prove to Agasa that he really is Shinichi. The main clue in the episode was that the family's dogs did not bark, as in "Silver Blaze" with its "curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
• In the Holmes Freak Murder Case there are several allusions to the Holmes stories. "Mycroft" is the name of Sherlock's older brother, the characters complete a test that only true Holmes fans would be able to answer, and the murderer's motive was due to one of the victims sullying the character of Irene Adler.
• In Chinatown Deja Vu in the Rain the name of the Chinese restaurant which Conan, Ran and Kogoro visits literally translates as "Conan Doyle Tower".
• In The Convenience Store Trap Ran remembers a quote from Holmes that Shinichi told her: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Using this quote to help her, Ran deduces who has been stealing items from the convenience store.
• In Holmes' Revelation the bomber used titles and quotes from Holmes' stories to give clues as to where his next bombing would take place.
• In The Phantom of Baker Street, the setting is a virtual reality of Holmes' London with many references to characters, situations, and quotes.
• In Reunion with the Black Organization The name Shelling Ford input by Conan in the computer is supposed to be Arthur Conan Doyle's first planned name for Sherlock Holmes. Nevertheless, this name is proven to be wrong, as Sherlock's first prototype name was Sherrinford Holmes.
• Gosho Aoyama said in an interview posted in the May 2014 issue of Da Vinci magazine stated that the "Ai" in Ai Haibara name comes from Irene Adler, a character from the Sherlock Holmes story "A Scandal in Bohemia", and she is inspired by her.
• In Crossroad in the Ancient Capital cafe from which Shinichi calls Ran at the start of the movie has number 221B as it adress just like Sherlock Holmes and John Watson's apartment (221B Baker Street).
• In Ran's Suspicions Shinichi's pin-code has the same number as the Black Organization's poison (4869), which is also a reference to Sherlock Holmes in Japanese (Shi-ya-ro-ku - "Sherlock").
• In The Truth Behind the Urban Legend Conan's statement, that 'The Hammer man' never existed, is similar to a statement made by his hero Sherlock Holmes in 'The adventure of the noble bachelor'. Holmes who are searching for a missing woman, who had just married Lord St. Simon, tells Lestrade that Lady St. Simon is 'a myth', because he had figured out that the woman was already married to a man she left to meet, and therefor the marriage with Lord St. Simon wasn't legit. Conan says that there never existed a 'Hammer Man', because he had realized that the Hammer 'man' was in reality a woman.
• In Opening 3 Conan and Shinichi appeared as Sherlock Holmes.
• In Thoroughbred Kidnapping Case the case is inspired by The Adventure of Silver Blaze, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories cited during the investigation. It centered around the disappearance of a race horse the night before an important race, along with the murder of his trainer.
• In The Small Eye-Witnesses Conan was read a Sherlock Holmes book called Sherlock Holmes His Idealology & Lifestyle.
• In Solving Mysteries at the Poirot Café Muga Iori uses the name "Shinichi Wada" (和田 進一 Wada Shin'ichi?) that he introduces himself was also the localized name of Dr. Watson in one of the first translated releases of A Study in Scarlet in Japan. The last name "Wada" is written with the same kanji as the last name of Hina Wada.

See also

• Detective Picture Book