On Logical Deduction

Ever since I started reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, I've been trying to invoke Holmes' powerful use of deductive reasoning in everyday life. The thing that makes those stories so amazing is that although at a first glance the case appears impossible, Sherlock Holmes can always solve it using simple and understandable logic, which he proceeds to explain before the story's end. I think, reading these stories, that Arthur Conan Doyle had an immense understanding of how genius rests in simplicity, and how often the most intriguing cases are not solved because the most important points are overlooked. Sherlock Holmes can take a case that most people could not solve, and, without knowing any more information than the reader, logic out the answer on the simplest of terms. It makes me wonder what I have overlooked in my own life so far, myself not having such an intense power of observation.