Sherlock Holmes and

Dr. Watson

Ruth Camacho Santacana

Jose López Herrera
Carla San Nicolás Martínez
1st BAT A
INDEX
➔ Sherlock Holmes ➔ John Hamish Watson
◆ Introduction ◆ Introduction
◆ Description ◆ Description
● physical and personality ● physical and personality
● habits ● habits
● careers ● careers
● methods for investigation ● methods for investigation
◆ Based on real people ◆ Based on real people
◆ TV series and films
Sherlock Holmes
Introduction
Created by Arthur Conan Doyle at 1887. He’s a very intelligent English detective with a
deductive mind.
Description

Physical and personality: Habits:

He was very tall, thin and polite. He liked to smoke with a pipe and played
the violin.
Description

Careers: Methods for investigation:

His mainly career was chemistry. The most important thing was the
observation and his sense of deduction.
Based on real people

Holmes was inspired by Joseph Bell, who took fast conclusions.

Sir Henry Littlejohn is also an inspiration for Holmes, providing him a sense of medical and
crime detection.
TV series and films

Sherlock Holmes has been many times the main character or idea for some films and TV and
radio series, like the BBC series “Sherlock”, which is based on nowadays. There’s also a song
called “Sherlock”, which tells the history of a robbery to a jewelry.
John H. Watson (Dr. Watson)
Introduction
He’s a fictional character of Sherlock Holmes’
stories. He was Sherlock Holmes’ friend, assistant
and sometimes flatmate.
Description

Physical and personality: Habits:

John Watson is very tall, with a sharp look He make up himself.

and a large nose.
He played rugby.
Intelligent and he transmitted a good sense.
Description

Careers: Methods for investigation:

Medical degree, chemistry and physics. He He used Holmes’s methods. He helped

worked as a detective. Sherlock to be creative, because Sherlock
wasn’t imaginative and he loved gossip.
Based on real people

He was probably inspired by one of Doyle's colleagues,

Dr James Watson.
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