He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them.” – Sherlock Holmes in The Final Problem

He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city.

Holmes and Moriarty fighting over the Reichenbach Falls. Lestrade of Scotland Yard is an inspector featured in many Sherlock Holmes adventures. Watson in The Adventure of the Dying Detective His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London. Not only was her first-floor flat invaded at all hours by throngs of singular and often undesirable characters but her remarkable lodger showed an eccentricity and irregularity in his life which must have sorely tried her patience. Hudson, the landlady of Sherlock Holmes, was a long-suffering woman. Hudson is the landlady of Sherlock Holmes. His hands were invariably blotted with ink and stained with chemicals, yet he was possessed of extraordinary delicacy of touch, as I frequently had occasion to observe when I watched him manipulating his fragile philosophical instruments. His chin, too, had the prominence and squareness which mark the man of determination.

His eyes were sharp and piercing, save during those intervals of torpor to which I have alluded and his thin, hawk-like nose gave his whole expression an air of alertness and decision. In height he was rather over six feet, and so excessively lean that he seemed to be considerably taller. His very person and appearance were such as to strike the attention of the most casual observer. “I am the last and highest court of appeal in detection.” – Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of The Four “The only unofficial consulting detective,” he answered. Sherlock Holmes in “The Hound of the Baskervilles”

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