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Sherlock holmes first appeared in 1887 and was featured in four novels and 56 short stories canonically. May 22, 2018 unlike sherlock holmes, who is kept at a distance from the reader through the curious narrator and onlookerparticipant character of watson, many of the female detectives mentioned in this article speak directly to the reader, often narrating their own stories through diaries or letters, forms of writing that were more suitable for women at the. Sherlock holmes, the fictional detective with powerful observation and deductive qualities, is dramatised on the bbc television again over the. Sherlock holmes new, used and rare books and ephemera at.
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