<P> Holmes says that he first developed his methods of deduction as an undergraduate ; his earliest cases , which he pursued as an amateur , came from fellow university students . A meeting with a classmate 's father led him to adopt detection as a profession , and he spent six years after university as a consultant before financial difficulties led him to accept John H. Watson as a fellow lodger in 1881 ( when the first published story , A Study in Scarlet , begins ) . </P>
<P> Holmes says that he first developed his methods of deduction as an undergraduate ; his earliest cases , which he pursued as an amateur , came from fellow university students . A meeting with a classmate 's father led him to adopt detection as a profession , and he spent six years after university as a consultant before financial difficulties led him to accept John H. Watson as a fellow lodger in 1881 ( when the first published story , A Study in Scarlet , begins ) . </P>
when did sherlock holmes began working as a detective
when did sherlock holmes began working as a detective
after university
after university