The Sherlock Holmes Handbook: The Methods and Mysteries of the World's Greatest Detective

Introduction PART I. DETECTIVE SKILLS How to Use Analytical Reasoning — Sherlock Holmes, Scientist How to Question a Suspect How to Decode Ciphers How to Analyze Footprints — The Creatures of Sherlock Holmes’s World How to Locate a Secret Chamber How to Examine a Body at a Crime Scene How to Analyze Bullet Evidence — Victorian Firearms How to Crack a Safe — The Crimes of Sherlock Holmes How to Analyze Fingerprints — Scotland Yard How to Analyze Typography — 221B Baker Street PART II. SURVIVAL SKILLS How to Defend Yourself — The Sporting Life How to Outwit a Criminal Mastermind — Will the Real Moriarty Please Stand Up? How to Fake Your Own Death — The Great Hiatus How to Survive a Plunge over a Waterfall — Curious Maladies and Quack Medicines of the Victorian Era How to Disguise Yourself — Victorian Fashion How to Cover Your Tracks PART III. LIFE SKILLS How to Stage a Dramatic Entrance — The Real Sherlock Holmes How to Sniff Out a Hoax — Secret Societies and the Criminal Underworld — Spiritualism and the Occult How to Deal with Friends and Relations — Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock’s Smarter Sibling How to Manage Children — Common Misconceptions About Sherlock Holmes How to Deal with Women How to Keep Your Mind Sharp — Sherlock Holmes and Music — Opium Dens and Narcotics in the Victorian Era How to Interact with Royalty How to Raise Bees APPENDIX Briefly, the Life and Times of Arthur Conan Doyle The Collected Wit and Wisdom of Sherlock Holmes The Sherlock Holmes Canon About the Author Acknowledgments