Grotesque detective Sherlock Holmes

In this paper we consider Sherlock Holmes as a classic sleuth, i.e. a sleuth in the classic detective story. First of all, for this reason it’s necessary to say that not all writings with Holmes are classical detective stories. Since we refer this genre to the criminal literature of investigation, first and foremost it’s necessary to exclude those works which don’t contain the story of investigation. Thus, we aren’t going to consider “The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton”, “The Adventure of the Final Problem” and many other stories as well as “A Scandal in Bohemia”, where there is no investigation or crime, because Irene Adler has full rights to have a photo of “important person”. It must be noted that readers, who take easily reference to grotesqueness of the other detectives, are going to argue when somebody says that Holmes is a grotesque person. Apparently, numerous films’ interpretations were important, where Holmes inevitably appears adventurous, rather than a classic sleuth, cinematographic interpretations eclipsed the text. Conclusion: the grotesque of Holmes is a grotesque of a mask, that’s why his attributes (smocking pipe and violin) are more important than face features; and the main attribute (smocking pipe) is in the mouth, which is also typically for the mask.