What are the main features of Sherlock Holmes as a man and as a detective ?

What are the main features of Sherlock Holmes as a man and as a detective? In this essay I shall seek to describe the character of Sherlock Holmes and compare it to his abilities and behaviour as a detective. It should serve as a testimony to the precision and mental ability of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in using his imagination in building detective cases and building a complex character like Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes …

…The Speckled Band’, Holmes is described as ‘working as he did rather for the love of his art than the acquirement of wealth’ and in ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’, Watson says that Holmes is ‘deeply attracted by the study of crime’. In Conclusion, I think that it is Holmes’ observational skills and superior intellect which allows him to see cases in an all together different way from other people, that makes him a great detective.