BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Did Sherlock Holmes ever kill someone?

**Posted by Schmiezi** December 16, 2012 3:58 pm

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.

**Posted by holmes23** December 16, 2012 7:44 pm

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

**Posted by Schmiezi** December 16, 2012 9:11 pm

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.

**Posted by holmes23** December 17, 2012 12:26 pm

You're right. They fired the same time.

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** January 24, 2013 1:07 pm

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.

**Posted by SusiGo** March 17, 2013 7:07 pm

Can anybody please stop this?

**Posted by Mary Me** March 17, 2013 7:17 pm

What's up? Why do we get so many trolls recently?

**Posted by Schmiezi** March 17, 2013 7:34 pm

That's a really annoying one - especially when he pushes up a topic which has one of my grammar mistakes in the title.

**Posted by Harriet** March 17, 2013 7:41 pm

Davina knows it already, and it will be banned.

**Posted by SusiGo** March 17, 2013 9:05 pm

Fine.

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** March 17, 2013 11:25 pm

Banned and spammy message deleted.

**Posted by Schmiezi** March 18, 2013 5:37 am

Thank you!