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Ms. McCoy - Literature
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ACCOMPLICE: a person who knowingly helps another in a crime or wrongdoing ALIAS: known by another name; pseudonym ALIBI: An excuse that a suspect uses to show that he or she was somewhere other than at the scene of the crime when the crime was committed BREAKTHROUGH: any significant or sudden advance, development, achievement, or increase, as in knowledge
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CLUE: a fact or object that helps to solve mysteries CRIME: an act that is against the law
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DEDUCE: to derive at a conclusion from something known or assumed; infer DETECTIVE: a person who investigates mysteries and gathers information
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EVIDENCE: something that helps prove who committed the crime HUNCH: a premonition or suspicion; guess
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MOTIVE: something that causes a person to act in a certain way; do a certain thing MYSTERY: something that is secret and unknown
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PLOT: When reading a mystery, the story usually includes one of the following: A problem that needs to be solved An event that cannot be explained A secret Something that is lost or missing A crime that has been committed RED HERRING: a false lead that throws the investigator off track
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SLEUTH: another name for a detective SUSPECT: a person who is believed to have possibly committed the crime
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VICTIM: someone who is harmed or suffers some loss because of the crime WITNESS: someone who saw the crime being committed and can provide some information
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the creator of Sherlock Holmes, the best-known detective in literature. The character Sherlock Holmes is best known for his deductive reasoning.
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Sherlock Holmes stories have been translated into more than fifty languages, and made into plays, films, radio and television series, a musical comedy, a ballet, cartoons, comic books, and advertisement. By 1920 Doyle was one of the most highly paid writers in the world.
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Born May 22, 1859 in Scotland Father suffered from epilepsy and alcoholism and eventually ended up institutionalized Mother and step-father was a positive influence on young Doyle
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The young Doyle attended all Catholic schools growing up He attended Edinburgh University Doyle became an ophthalmologist (eye doctor) in 1885 In 1891 he become a full time writer
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1887 – Sherlock Holmes was first introduced in a story that took Doyle 3 weeks to write In this story he introduced Holmes’ assistant Watson and Holmes’ famous address 211B Baker Street In 1902 – Doyle tried to kill the character of Sherlock Holmes off – but the public demanded more and so more was written in 1903
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He served in the South African War (1899 – 1902) for a few months as a head physician He was married twice Doyle ran unsuccessfully for Parliament in 1900 and again in 1906 He was knighted in 1902
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Doyle was really nothing like his character Sherlock Holmes – he actually was a huge believer in fairies and spent more than a million dollars supporting the cause of these “little people”
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Doyle died on July 7, 1930 from heart disease at his home, Windlesham, Sussex
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