A Study in Scarlet Sherlock Holmes uses a variety of different methods when solving the mystery in A Study in Scarlet. The methods include; working backwards, deduction, and false argument by elimination. I will be describing these in this order because I theorize that in the end Holmes is really making educated guesses or assumptions. By addressing these methods in the descending order that follows, I hope to show that anyone could make these assumptions …showed first 75 words of 533 total…

…showed last 75 words of 533 total…do not believe Sherlock Holmes provides us with a useful method of the way a social scientist goes about his work. As I explained above, one of the fallacies in Holmes’ method is that he does not engage in social scientific inquiry. He rather deduces in his own mind how a certain set of events have occurred based on what he has heard from the other detectives and his own observations of the crime scene.