Sherlock Holmes is a fun interesting character for a lot of reasons but as of late the most interesting reason that is often over looked is the fact he is modern age man who owns and operates a trade/job he invented for himself as his ego and talents.

Granted, we’re talking about a fictional character but the man from 221b is not alone in the business class of job creation in this current era in time.

So do you Reverse Engineer Sherlock Holmes. Simple. You start from the beginning. What is he at his core or what was he in his childhood. By nature he was a curious child. A very curious intelligent child that wanted to know the why.

Why?

Why does this person behave this way?

Why do people do things they should not do?

Why does a person commit Murder? And, then when those questions are answered the mind turns to another matter. Now, knowing why a person would commit murder how do you find who that person did the murder. More data is needed. The University is the logical conclusion to find out those answers and means of putting forth a system for measuring the scope of reasons, motives and story behind crimes.

University comes to an end. What follows is society puts the demands on Holmes to find employment. Holmes already has the demands met with a part time hobby he started in his late school years that drive and feed his hunger to know why. Holmes deducts that if he has a need to know answer a mystery and the means to find out the answer there might be clients with the same need to find out their own mysteries answers but not the same ready spark skill as himself.

Managing his side hobby of giving advice for a fee through word of mouth and free advice he earns his bread and feeds his drive to know why and to have his mind feed on problems and mysteries.

The conclusion: The curios cat who hunted for rats in the barn was feed for doing what he naturally does well.

L. M. Parker