Sherlock Holmes mystery

Of course, much interest in strychnine centers on its pharmacological properties. It is a powerful convulsant, lethal to an adult human in a dose as small as 30 mg. Death comes from central respiratory failure and is preceded by violent convulsions. Strychnine is the deadly agent in many a murder story, real and imagined. One example is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s Sherlock Holmes mystery, The Sign of the Four, in which Dr. Watson suggests the lethal agent to be a powerful vegetable alkaloid. .. some strychnine-like substance. ... 

An interesting reference to white phosphorus can be found in the Sherlock Holmes mystery, The Hound of the Baskervilles, where a laige dog was coated with white phosphorus to scare Baskerville family members to death. 

Agatha Christie s murder mysteries Alphabet series (A is for Alibi) by Sue Grafton The Client by John Grisham Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Shining by Stephen King Watcher by Dean R. Koontz... 

Nicholas Meyer is a novelist, screenwriter, and movie director. Several of his novels are mysteries devoted to further adventures of Sherlock Holmes two of these mysteries, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1974) and The West End Horror (1976), were made into successful films. Meyer s recent film work includes an adaptation of The Odyssey (1997) and direction of Vendetta (1999). 

Sherlock Holmes deciphered the mystery of the crook s identity by puzzling out the clues left behind at the scene of the crime. 

A literary mystery is also cormected to barirrm srrlfate. In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s crime story titled A Case of Identity, a conversation between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson goes like this. 

There is a huge mystery here. The rrame bisrrlphate of baryta would correspond to the chemical formttla Ba(HSO,)2. A srrbstance with this formttla is unknown in modem science. What cottld have been the salt Sherlock Holmes was working upon ... 

In A Scandal in Bohemia, Sherlock Holmes receives a mysterious note. He states, I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. What do you think Sherlock meant (1.2)... 

Sherlock Holmes receives a mysterious note. He states, I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one... 

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