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A 5 page paper which examines if Holmes’s addiction to heroin and cocaine interfered with his work ethics. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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he would solve crimes by exposing clues they had overlooked. However, as Holmess legions of fans have long been aware, it wasnt simply deductive logic that powered this master
detective. From his first entrance upon the literary scene in A Study in Scarlet, Holmes revealed himself to be what would be described in contemporary language as a "junkie."
He delighted in injecting heroin (described in the texts as morphine) and cocaine, whichever substance was available to him at the moment, much to the dismay of his assistant,
Mr. Watson. But while Holmes was clearly by modern standards a drug addict, can it be automatically concluded that this addiction interfered with his work ethics, or his moral
value judgments? First, it would be beneficial to consider how Holmess drug use is depicted in the texts. In A Study in Scarlet, which was first published in 1887,
Mr. Watsons narrative observed, "For days on end he would lie upon the sofa in the sitting-room, hardly uttering a word or moving a muscle from morning to night. On
these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic" (A Seven-Percent
Solution, 2003). Holmes was, in his private life, a moody individual who had begun his experimentation with cocaine as a student (Bruno, 2003). By the 1890 tale, The
Sign of Four, Holmess reliance upon the stimulation of narcotics is frequently mentioned, appears to be a progressive addiction, at least as seen through the eyes of Mr. Watson, who
recounted, "SHERLOCK HOLMES took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the
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