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Did Sherlock Holmes ever kill someone?
I´ve read the entire canon twice now, but I can`t remember if there is a story in which Holmes is forced to take someone's life or in which such action is mentioned. Do you?
I'm just wondering because if there is, I would like to adapt the incident for my fanfic, but I can't find the time to re-read all of it again. 
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Re: Did Sherlock Holmes ever kill someone?
I think Holmes never killed anyone intentionally. As for Moriarty's death, I'm not sure what to say. In the case of the little islander in The Sign of Four, it's a matter of self defence. Any way he was ready to kill by all means the villain in The Three Garridebs, if the latter had killed Watson 
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Thank you, that was exactly the information I was looking for. With the islander, it was said that Holmes and Watson fired the same time, wasn't it? I will skim it again later.
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Thread Starter- holmes23
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Re: Did Sherlock Holmes ever kill someone?
You're right. They fired the same time.
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Re: Did Sherlock Holmes ever kill someone?
I always imagined that he might have killed someone on the Great Hiatus, but that of course, is never documented so it's not canon. He definitely doesn't in the canon, no. I love the bit where he threatens Evans though for shooting at Watson. Such a bad ass.
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Can anybody please stop this? 
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What's up? Why do we get so many trolls recently?
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That's a really annoying one - especially when he pushes up a topic which has one of my grammar mistakes in the title. 
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Davina knows it already, and it will be banned.
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Fine. 
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"It is what it is says love." (Erich Fried)
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Thank you!
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