If you are wondering how the heck I could read in 1987, an edition published in 2009, well Elementary, dear fellow readers!
THE GREAT DETECTIVE
If you are wondering how the heck I could read in 1987, an edition published in 2009, well you don’t need to hire Sherlock Holmes to solve this mistery, the solution is quite simple, I read the entire collection of Sherlock Holmes back there in 1987, if you check my “Sherlock Holmes” shelf, you will find the separate books there, and even a two-volumes edition that I bought later too, but I needed one single edition to use it in my “favorites” shelf since I felt that I needed to show it there and this one was the best one that I found in Goodreads, also it was quite difficult to choose just one book above the rest, so I decided that this one was the best available option for my purpose.
It’s obvious that not all original Sherlock Holmes stories have aged well, even it’s not a matter of aging but that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ideas have been adapted in other works so much that some of his mysteries aren’t that great nowadays, but still Sherlock Holmes is the basic example to follow for any author interested in developing detective novels, bute ven the basis for developing characters out of the usual “nice person” since Sherlock Holmes was a character with as many flaws as virtues, making him a real human being along as an extraordinary detective able to analyze evidence like none other, always under the critic eye of his companion, Dr. John Watson, his most relevant link to humanity....more
This is the second book and also the second novel-length by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about the character of Sherlock Holmes
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This is the second book and also the second novel-length by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about the character of Sherlock Holmes
THE GREAT DETECTIVE RETURNS
The first thing that shocked me when I read the very first time this book was reading that Sherlock Holmes was using cocaine!
Certainly, things were quite different in London, 1890!
In the book is explained that Holmes' mind is so thirsty of being occupied in an unsolved mystery that when cases are absent, he needs cocaine to keep his mind sedated and not getting stressed out of not having something to deduce.
Good Doctor Watson complained about the cocaine since Holmes is abusing of it, so at least there's that.
Good thing that a mysterious case soon comes to 221B Baker Street, with Mary Morstan, their new client, who's asking for assistance, since she needs to attend to a mysterious appointment and since she was allowed to be accompanied by two persons (as long as they won't be police).
Mary Morstan is a humble governess that some years after the mysterious dissapearance of her father, she has been receiving for 6 years a valuable pearl per year, and now she got a message telling her that she will be informed about what happened with her father.
The game is on again!
NEW CHARACTERS AND MORE
The Baker Street irregulars returned to this novel and their priceless skills to go around London without being noticed, but also a new assett for Sherlock Holmes is introduced with Toby, a dog which is way useful to follow scents and tracks.
Also, another Scotland Yard detective is introduced: Athelney Jones (that I personally think that since in A Study in Scarlet (the previous novel) were already introduced Lestrade and Gregson, I don't know why bother to keep inventing more police inspectors).
Sherlock Holmes is armed with a pistol in this adventure, that I think that I'm not used to think of Holmes of carrying guns, I believe that it's something more proper for Dr. Watson that was a military medic.
Moreover, without spoiling, Dr. John Watson won't be the same after this adventure! But don't worry isn't something bad!
It's in this very first novel where the great character Sherlock Holmes, along with Dr. John Watson, are intThe Game is on!
ENTER THE DETECTIVE
It's in this very first novel where the great character Sherlock Holmes, along with Dr. John Watson, are introduced to the audience in their first case together.
It wasn't an instantenous success, but gladly it was appreciated soon enough to the point that when the author, Sir Arhur Conan Doyle, wanted to "kill" the character, not only their loyal fans wrote letters against the decision (something unheard at those times) for not saying that even people in London were seeing wearing mourning black bands showing respect to the "death" of the character, that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle finally "resurrect" the character writing even more adventures.
But everything began here...
...Dr. John Watson got injured in war, and when he got back to London, he isn't able to afford a decent apartment on his scarse pension, so he is introduced to a peculiar man who is a "consultant detective", the first and only in the world, that not only private detectives consulted him but even the very Scotland Yard was resigned that Holmes' help was needed, for not saying crucial to solve impossible crimes.
While this case, maybe wasn't that astounding, it is quite astonishing at the speed that Holmes is able to solve it, thanks to his uncanning deduction skills.
I think that the middle section where the culprit explained his background and the reasons to commit the murders, could be exposed in a less extended way, but still, it was the first story, so I am able to forgive this kinda of a deviation of the main storyline.
In this first novel, you met along with Holmes and Watson, also the Detective Inspector Lestrade, and the Baker Street Irregulars (which are vital for the search for people and clues to Holmes).
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