How Did Holmes Solve Crime

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I think that Holmes methods of solving crimes were very realistic. Back when Holmes was alive the police had a different methods of solving crimes then we do today.Homes had a different way of solving crimes than the police did he was very observent and his methodes were just more advanced. Three reasons that show that his method are realistic is he is very observant, he goes under cover, interview. The first reasons that it shows that Holmes methods were realistic some people are just really observant. The thing that helps him solves cases most is that he is observant and he notices things that most people don’t pay attention to. Like he sees the mud on someone's shoes and uses what he knows about him to make a conclusive. One example is that in the story A Scandal in Bohemia, he notice that Watson had six parallel cuts and put that together with what he knows about him and came up with the conclusion that he was working in the medical profession. Another example is in the story The Red-Headed league by listening to the story and go to where Mr. Wilson work he figured out that Mr. Wilson’s assistant is trying to rob the bank. Holmes is just very observant and used all of his senses to find the criminal. …show more content…

So that is a realistic method that he use to get information that he can not get if he just asked the person. One example is in the story A Scandal in Bohemia, Holmes goes undercover like one of the people at a party and acts like he hurt. The he has Waton through a smoke bomb in so they think that the house on fire and He gets the information he

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