Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Bonn (Institut fur Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie (IAAK)), language: English, abstract: "Intriguing and memorable as some of the nineteenth-century detectives were, there is only one great detective" (Knight 2010: 55). When reading these few words everyone who is more or even less familiar with literature should know who these lines are dedicated to. The detective in question is of course Sherlock Holmes. This detective, who was brought to life by Sir Arthur...