Thursday, November 19, 2009

Sherlock Holmes Post 2

Recently I've been reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's compilation of Sherlock Holmes stories called The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. In this novel the famous detective goes through a series of adventures each one with a different case. Over the week I've read two adventures, "The Red Headed League" a weird story about a master criminal who forms a league and has a bank teller to join so they can distract him from his day job and rob the very bank he works in, of course Holmes stops the man before he can rob the bank, but the proceedings are so interesting you won't mind when the inevitable happens; the inevitable being Holmes figuring everything out. In the second adventure "A Case of Identity" where a women's lover disappears and she vows to never marry again. It turns out the lover was made up by the women's stepfather so she would never leave his residence and he could continue to profit off of her inheritance from her actual father. I look forward to reading the future adventures even if they're in old english and very hard to read.

1 comment:

  1. Joe, great post. Sherlock Holmes is one of my favorites and I remember reading "The Red-Headed League" and loving it. To an ordinary writer, the words you used in this post are dry. But, you made this post come to life so well that I might want to rediscover Sherlock Holmes myself.

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