John H. Watson is the British doctor who becomes the friend, sometime roommate, and sidekick of the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. He both accompanies Holmes on all of his adventures and narrates the tales.
Watson's is the voice of all four novels and fifty-three of the fifty-six original short-stories in the series, written by Arthur Conan Doyle; of the remaining three, two are narrated by Holmes, and one is in the third person. Onl...
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John H. Watson is the British doctor who becomes the friend, sometime roommate, and sidekick of the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. He both accompanies Holmes on all of his adventures and narrates the tales.
Watson's is the voice of all four novels and fifty-three of the fifty-six original short-stories in the series, written by Arthur Conan Doyle; of the remaining three, two are narrated by Holmes, and one is in the third person. Only in those narrated by Holmes does Watson fail to appear, though he is mentioned in both.
The original stories provide no details about Watson's life after 1914 (when he assisted Holmes one last time in the story "His Last Bow"). Holmes' untiring biographer was apparently still alive in 1927, when the last story ("The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place") appeared. In Nicholas Meyer's revisionist novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Watson was portrayed as still around in 1939, but apparently died that year or shortly afterwards.
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