There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact

My favorite example of a "How-to-be-Sherlock Holmes" is Mastermind by Maria Konnikova.

There are so many books out there about how to practice deductive reasoning like Sherlock Holmes, many of which have certain cornerstones of thought.

 The ones I'm thinking of are constant mindfulness and practice- two things which often allude Watson, as well as ourselves. At my workplace, it's usually my job to deliver the evening batch of IV room products from the pharmacy upstairs to all of the patient floors. But that day, the refrigerate-only items were gone, and the room-temperature products were left. I questioned everyone around me, but nobody knew what had happened to them. So I simply took the room temperature products and left. 

It ended up that I had wasted an hour of time, because the worker from the overlapping shift had delivered the necessary items and I simply took up what the night shift was supposed to deliver. The worker was furious and yelled at me for wasting time. Indeed, I should have checked the times and dates on the products to ensure that the times that they were due were those signifying those products were mine to deliver. The lack of refrigerate-only items should have given me a clue as to what had happened. 

But I had no reason to suspect that anything was amiss. No notes, and none of the pharmacists or other technicians knew what had happened. Retrospectively looking at the situation, I could have deduced that someone had done me a favor and done my duty for me. My mindfulness was obviously not there, and despite trying to practice being Sherlock Holmes, one can't be Sherlock Holmes until one is constantly mindful and in practice of logic reasoning. 

I shouldn't be so hard on myself. After all, Sherlock Holmes didn't just wake up one day and become the great detective that we know him to be, so I just can't have the powers of deduction by wanting it one day. 

So I end with this. "It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital." REIG

An inner city Sherlock Holmes

Everyone knows that one of the best things about going to a party is the commemorative swag on the way out the door. One of these amazing parties was the Daintiest Thing Under A Bonnet charity ball, and the token piece in question is the first issue of Watson and Holmes.

I won't patronize your power of using keywords on Google to search for a summary of the issue, so let's skip to the good part.

The story is unique in that (among many other things) for once it is Watson who receives top billing. It's just the beginning, but already, the story focuses more on Jon Watson, a compassionate medical intern who has been swept up in the urban adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

I've never seen an incarnation of Sherlock Holmes and any other main character was a different color, making this a unique spin. How does the skin color of Holmes and Watson affect their interactions with each other and their environment? What challenges or advantages will it pose to solving mysteries?

Already it makes Holmes and Watson more relatable to the inner-city minority characters, where if they were white, things would be different. It has always been a mystery to me how, in the canon, Holmes managed to gain the trust of street urchins, being a member of the upper-class himself. It's a simpler explanation to believe that Holmes may have come from this sort of background himself.

The artwork is stupendous. It's detailed and gritty, with hacked shadows, blurry outlines, and a color scheme that shows you that the world you're reading about is rough and unforgiving.

This issue ends with unanswered questions begging to be answered. I don't know about others, but after having read and seen so many versions of the canon stories, I have a habit of wondering which story this issue will be based on, if any,

What are you doing still looking at this post? Go read it!

The only one in the world

I've yet to see another Sherlockian blog done by a pharmacy student, so for now, it's the only one in the world.

With my analytic style of reporting, I will cover my progress consuming and obtaining the various media of Sherlock Holmes.

In addition, look to my chronicles traveling to attend various Sherlockian events.