Mystery, Doyle, & Holmes

2. The genius detective in the first mystery story ever written was Auguste C. ______________.
8. What are distractions intended to throw the reader off the solution to the mystery?
10. What family member of Doyle’s greatly influenced him, with a passion for books and was a master storyteller?
12. The real-life surgeon whom Doyle based Sherlock Holmes’s famous sidekick was Dr. Joseph _____.
13. Besides deduction, Holmes had expert skills in martial arts, boxing, swordsman, and __________________.
14. Other than mysteries, Doyle wrote historical and ___________________ novels.
17. The name of Doyle’s first widely popular Sherlock Holmes mystery story was “A Scandal in _____________”.
18. The first mystery story ever written was called “The Murders at the Rue _______________” by Edgar Allan Poe.
19. The name of the story where Doyle brought Holmes back to life, after the public outcry of his death, was “The __________________ of Sherlock Holmes”.
20. Who is the world’s best known fictional detective?
21. The typical narrator of Sherlock Holmes’s stories is Dr. John ______________.
23. When Holmes went outside, he wore a long gray ________________.
28. What professions were both Doyle’s father and grandfather by trade?
29. Before he started writing mysteries, what profession was Doyle?
31. Holmes also wore an ear-flapped tweed hat called a _____________________.

1. What was Doyle’s birthplace?
2. This is the protagonist in a mystery story.
3. Doyle wrote 56 _____________________________ about Holmes & Watson.
4. Sherlock Holmes’s famous sidekick and foil is called Dr. ____________ Watson.
5. A mystery story involves a serious death or a _________________ to be solved.
6. The main characters in a mystery are ____________________, detectives and victims.
7. What are the settings of mysteries?
9. Well-written mysteries end with realistic, ___________________ solutions.
11. What kind of suits did Holmes wear?
15. Who was the father of the mystery story?
16. Doyle wrote 4 _______________ about Holmes & Watson.
17. 1859 was the year of Doyle’s ________________.
22. Holmes’s physical characteristics were tall, thin, with sharp _________________________ features.
24. 1902 was the year that Doyle was ____________________.
25. The story in which Doyle first introduced the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson was called “A Study in _________________”.
26. The address of the home that Holmes and Watson shared was 221-B _____________ Street, London, England.
27. Doyle believed that the _______________________ of the dead could communicate with the living.
30. 1930 was the year of Doyle’s ______________________.