The Intriguing Case of Sherlock Holmes

Issue 11

"Sometimes, during the coldest months of the year I would love to hibernate and just let the months roll by. And wake up full of new life in the spring! Is this such a bad thing? Slowing down, recharging our batteries, being cocooned in a warm bed away from the freezing cold winds outside. If only we could stop the demands of life, just until spring arrives, all would be well." - mark fen

"As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify." - Sherlock Holmes

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Arthur Conan Doyle

The Intriguing Case of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes was born in 1854. He was tall and slim with hawk-like features and piercing eyes, and was famous for his dressing-gown, pipe, deerstalker cap and magnifying glass.

He practised as a consulting detective betw…