Sherlock Holmes Research Paper

Sherlock Holmes: Changing the World of Crime Solving The world of forensics was merely a thought before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created the widely famous character known as Sherlock Holmes. The number of methods that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used to solve his fictional crime scenarios are countless. Even though the books are not based on real crimes, Sherlock Holmes changed the world of Forensics and revolutionized the thought process behind solving crimes. Many consider Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to be the “father of forensics” because of his precise and genius methods used to solve countless murders and crimes. A very common misconception about The Sherlock Holmes series is that it is completely fictional and that none of the situations that arrive in

He was one of, if not the first, people to use the idea of fingerprints and footprints to trace a person back to a specific place, area, or thing. (O’Brien, Britannica) “In Conan Doyle’s series, Sherlock Holmes is the author of a monograph called The Typewriter and its Relation to crime.” (O’Brien, Oxford) In his book A Case of Identity which was written in 1891, Sherlock Holmes figures out that all the letters that an anonymous criminal sent were written on a typewritten. The odd thing about it was that even the person’s alias was typewritten. At the time most letters that were typed were still signed by the person with their signature. He used this clue to go around checking letters that people had written to others and find the suspect. When he got to Hosmer Angel’s letters he realized that Angle didn’t sign his letters and that he made many of the same grammatical mistakes as the anonymous criminal that he had been trying to track down. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) started a Document Section soon after its crime lab opened in 1932. Holmes’s work preceded this by forty years.” (O’Brien,