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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
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3.5 stars. oooh, the Sherlock wonderfulness has finally kicked in!!
I liked it better than all of the last 3 haha. but I'm still waiting for Sherlock to be cockier and more sarcastic
I liked it better than all of the last 3 haha. but I'm still waiting for Sherlock to be cockier and more sarcastic
Another good short novella . Am glad to say that from the previous book I have been able to deduct the criminal along with Holmes. Perhaps Watson is generous in giving clues subconsciously in his writing.
This is the apparently straightforward case of a father being shot by his son, which proved to be more convoluted once Sherlock entered the fray.
This is the apparently straightforward case of a father being shot by his son, which proved to be more convoluted once Sherlock entered the fray.
”There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact”
As Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are travelling down from London to Herefordshire on the train, I was struck by this curious feeling: Have you ever seen a famous person in real life and found it hard to fathom that the person is actually before you? I have had that feeling a few times: When JK Rowling visited my town in Denmark, when I saw Paul McCartney live at Royal Albert Hall, and when I was in the audience for a recording of an episode of QI and Stephen Fry sat right there on the podium. I was trying to tell myself that it was actually the JK, the Sir Paul McCartney, the national treasure Stephen Fry there before me, but somehow it’s a hard concept to grasp sometimes.
That’s how I felt when Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson were talking about a murder case on the train. Of course I knew who Sherlock Holmes was, he has become a phenomenon bigger than the books that feature him and lately interest in him has sky-rocketed. I enjoyed the Robert Downey Jr. - Jude Law versions, but absolutely love the TV-series Sherlock with the modernised take on the famous detective. Watch it, watch it, watch it, it’s great.
(Argh, I keep getting sidetracked – did you notice?)
What I am trying to say is, actually reading about Sherlock, getting back to the source material and read his sentences, follow his deductions etc. struck me with the same feeling as mentioned above. It was like meeting Sherlock in real life, not on the screen, and I loved it. It’s the first time a book has struck me like that.
As Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are travelling down from London to Herefordshire on the train, I was struck by this curious feeling: Have you ever seen a famous person in real life and found it hard to fathom that the person is actually before you? I have had that feeling a few times: When JK Rowling visited my town in Denmark, when I saw Paul McCartney live at Royal Albert Hall, and when I was in the audience for a recording of an episode of QI and Stephen Fry sat right there on the podium. I was trying to tell myself that it was actually the JK, the Sir Paul McCartney, the national treasure Stephen Fry there before me, but somehow it’s a hard concept to grasp sometimes.
That’s how I felt when Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson were talking about a murder case on the train. Of course I knew who Sherlock Holmes was, he has become a phenomenon bigger than the books that feature him and lately interest in him has sky-rocketed. I enjoyed the Robert Downey Jr. - Jude Law versions, but absolutely love the TV-series Sherlock with the modernised take on the famous detective. Watch it, watch it, watch it, it’s great.
(Argh, I keep getting sidetracked – did you notice?)
What I am trying to say is, actually reading about Sherlock, getting back to the source material and read his sentences, follow his deductions etc. struck me with the same feeling as mentioned above. It was like meeting Sherlock in real life, not on the screen, and I loved it. It’s the first time a book has struck me like that.
Holmes drops a big hint that helped me figure this one out. I liked watching his field methods and hearing his psychological assessment of the suspect.
A man murdered and all evidence points to his son as the murderer. Is he though? Everyone seems to think so, except Sherlock. Not the most imaginative story, but it shows some of Sherlock's staple quirks. For example, the imagery of him as a hound dog on the hunt.
Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, impatient snarl in reply.
While there are some screen adaptations of this story, I want to instead mention the 2014 video game Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments. It is, in my opinion, the best Sherlock game, comprising of 6 different cases which you investigate and moral choices which you decide. Should the criminal be arrested? Should the murderer die? Will you take their crimes to the grave? These are the moral dilemmas dealt with by the greatest consulting detective in literary history.