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This essay places Holmes and Watson among the greatest creations of the Western literary imagination and explores the archetypes that have contributed to Holme's universal appeal. Holme's intuitive methods are shown to be based on a misinterpretation of medical diagnostics. The appendix provides the first quantitative stylistic analysis of the Holmes canon.Accardo, Pasquale J. is the author of 'Diagnosis and Detection: The Medical Iconography of Sherlock Holmes' with ISBN 9780838632925 and ISBN 0838632920.
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