Sherlock Holmes Stories
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Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer who created a brilliant London detective, who is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skilful use of "deductive reasoning" while using abductive reasoning (inference to the best explanation) and astute observation to solve difficult cases his name Sherlock Holmes.
Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859, in Edinburgh Scotland and died on 7 July 1930, New Forest, Hampshire, England. His masterpieces are considered an innovation in the field of crime fiction. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction.
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The man with the Twisted Lip.
The man with the Twisted Lip
Would you like to be another person with a lot of money? Perhaps your immediately answer is “Yes, why not” but if it implies to believe you’re death, will you accept? Sometimes, you need to change your appearance for different occasions, for example when you go school uses jeans or when you assist a formal party well-dressed is basic, and this story relates something like these.
Immediately when Dr. Watson save a friend's husband from an East End opium den called 'Bar of Gold', he found his friend Sherlock Holmes disguised as an old man trying to get some information from the addicts, the reason: Mr. Neville St. Clair, an important businessman has disappeared.
The only clue that his wife gave him was she saw her husband at a second-floor window and in the precise instant it occurred he disappeared, she was trying to enter the building, but the owner blocked her . So she had gone to the police, but they couldn’t find Mr. St. Clair.
Instead the officers found a dirty, ugly beggar, named Hugh Boone with some of her husband's clothes, so the beggar was arrested and locked up at the police station.
Some days later, his wife received a letter in his own writing. Of course, the master mind of Mr. Holmes reacted at this situation, and discovered when he washed Boone's dirty face, the face of Neville St. Clair!!!!
Mr. St. Clair has been leading a double life, why? In his youth, to research an article for the newspaper, he had disguised himself as a beggar, during that time he won a lot of money. Later in his life, he returned to the street to beg for several days in order to pay a large debt. Given a choice between his newspaper salary and his high beggar earnings, he eventually became a professional beggar. His takings were large enough that he was able to establish himself as a country gentleman, marry well, and begin a respectable family. His wife never knew what he did for a living, and Holmes agrees to preserve Mr. St. Clair's secret as long as no more is heard of Hugh Boone.
I was very interested in how mystery was resolved, because when you’re reading the possible solution is very common, but the writer’s strategy consists showing other details, that he never mention during the tale. An interesting point is about consumption of narcotics, at that time was very common an opium den like a bar nowadays.
Finally, in a real life situation when my grandfather was a bank employee, one day one man wanted to open an account and when my grand asked him how he got his incomes, he answered: I’m beggar. So, one day I´ll try look like a beggar, probably I can have some extra money or best get to be millionaire!!!
Speckled Band
As you know the snakes are one of the most poisonous animals in the world, one attack is enough for live or dead. Inspire in this effect, Dr. Roylott planed the murder of his two stepdaughters and then have all the inheritance of his death wife.
The story began when Helen Stoner consults the detective Sherlock Holmes about the suspicious death of her sister, Julia, because when she had been married, one night after the special day she suddenly was struggling, and died. Now Helen is engaged to be married and her worried increase.
Holmes' investigation reveals:
In the room of Dr. Roylott, there was a strange bell cord over the bed, and it does not seem to work any bell.
Julia’s said something about a "speckled band."
Julia might have been murdered by the gypsies.
A possible attack by a cheetah and a baboon property, for Dr. Roylott.
But then of this, Holmes told to Helen ,if he and Watson could stay into her room one night without Dr. Roylott's knowledge. They did it, heard the whistle and saw a venomous snake had been sent to Julia's room.
Finally, Holmes activate a ventilator an refuse the attack sending the reptile to the next room. The angry snake attacks the first person it sees Dr.Roylott. He was the indirect murder.
This is a typical situation in a drug traffic business, for example the snakes (in a metaphor form) are the delivery men who have a close contact to the consumers, on the other hand Dr. Roylotts (continued with metaphor) is the own of a drug group of deliver men.
Perhaps this indirect form to kill people it’s more difficult to stop than in Holmes case. What do you think?
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The Devil’s foot
Three deaths, one baton, a mysterious house, a strange smell and of course an intelligent but little illness detective Sherlock Holmes. In this occasion he and Dr. Watson take a holiday in a small Cornish cottage, but the local Vicar and Mortimer Tregennis inform him that something strange has happened. Treggennis' sister Brenda has been found dead and in the same room his brothers George and Owen have become raving idiots.
So, I that moment appeared two major questions: How did Brenda die without any apparent injuries? and How did George and Owen become lunatics overnight? Then the next day the Vicar informs Sherlock that Mortimer dead too. According to Dr. Watson, the dead body displays the same physical symptoms as that of the dead Brenda. The Vicar was convinced that the Devil has been the agent that has caused all this.
But, the reality appears with the mental ability of Holmes discovered what was happened. Mr. Tregeniss killed her sister to forbid her marriage, that was the reason to use the devil’s foot root that only exist in Budapest and its power to kill or make mad is very quickly.
I liked the eerie happenings, the suggestion of the supernatural, the daring scientific experiment that nearly went wrong, and the touching but not cloying buddy scene between Holmes and Watson, including Holmes's relapse into his half-humorous, half-cynical attitude immediately after his brush with madness and death.
Finally one reflection is when you really know how was happened the things use all your sense, and of course have a particular vision like Holmes!!
A dark silhouette at a bedroom window and the howling of a dog has terrified the daughter of an eminent professor and prompted a call for Holmes. What do you do when you see something strange at midnight? The youth source exists? This story began when Mr. Trevor Bennett comes to Sherlock because he is Professor Presbury's personal secretary, and recently he has engaged to the professor's only daughter.
Professor Presbury is engaged to a young lady, Alice Morphy, a colleague's daughter, although he himself is already sixty-one years old (it doesn’t seemed to have caused a great scandal); so that is not Mr. Bennett's problem. The trouble begun during Professor Presbury's and Alice's engagement.
First, the professor suddenly left home without telling anyone where he was going, then he returned very strange, and suddenly the professor received an attack of his dog, which was very significant. Also too, all the people around hi feel that they are living with another person, a man more furtive and sly, there were changes in his moods but his lectures were still brilliant.
Another suspicious clue was when Professor Presbury told Mr. Bennett that certain letters would arrive with a cross under the stamp, he wasn’t open these. One night, Mr. Bennett opened his bedroom door one night, and saw the professor crawling along the hall on his hands and feet, besides the professor brought a small wooden box back with him from his travel. The behavior change occurred in intervals of nine days each time.
Holmes and Watson go to Camford to see the professor the next day, but the professor’s answer is quite sure that he has made no appointment. In another moment Mr. Bennett tells Holmes that he has found mysterious letters from an address of a man named Dorak. Holmes has formed a theory that every nine days, Professor Presbury takes some kind of drug which causes the odd behaviour. Holmes believed that he became addicted in Prague, and is now supplied by this Dorak in London.
Finally, Holmes examines the professor's little wooden box, and it contained a drug, and a letter who explain that is a substance to help the professor in the achieving rejuvenation process, which he thought would be advisable if he were going to marry a young woman. I think there exist another kind of methods to try stop an inevitable process like ageing.
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