Sherlock Holmes – a fine tribute to logical deduction

I have always been a big fan of detective work where logic and deduction plays a large part in solving the case.

My favorite is the fictitious character Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The best parts are when looking at simple objects like a hat, coat, pipe etc he is able to amazingly deduce quite a bit of information about the person(s) it belongs to. Also to him the satisfaction derived from solving the case is more important than any monetary gains.

The next favorite I have is another fictitious character Monk on USA Networks. Some of the cases he solves are just mind boggling. One of my favorite is the chess grandmaster who seems to always be one step in front of everyone including Monk.

Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Columbo, Matlock .. the list goes on but they all have the same things. Usually the clues are right in front of us and it is a matter of thinking out of the box and logical deduction that gets you to solve the case. What it also makes you wonder is the brilliance of the human minds out there.