How would you describe Sherlock Holmes? Resourceful, dynamic,
enigmatic? (Did someone just say "late?")
Sherlock is the master of deduction, a consulting detective, the
only one in the world as he invented the job. He's brilliant, a
proper genius, and doesn't he know it. Should you ever meet him, he
will no doubt read your family history in your mobile phone and
your occupation in the way you hold yourself. Be warned though, he
is not a man who has time for social graces, so you may find him
more than just a little insulting at times, but you mustn't be
offended if he calls you an idiot, he thinks practically everyone
is!
Ask Sherlock about astronomy however and you may just have him.
With his mind like a computer hard drive, he only stores
information that is really useful. Like what size suitcase makes a
certain radius of splash pattern, or what bruises are formed after
death on a body beaten by a riding crop. So what does it matter
then, really, if the earth goes around the sun?
Without the work, Sherlock's brain rots, so give him problems to
solve as Sherlock is bored easily and that's never good for the
walls. The more bizarre or impossible the problems the better they
are, that's why Scotland Yard go to him when they are out of their
depth… which is always.
Although he is a self-proclaimed high functioning sociopath (do
your research and don't call him a psychopath), if you do have a
problem to solve which is worth his time, open and shut domestics
need not apply by the way. Sherlock can be contacted via his
website www.thescienceofdeduction.co.uk.