A review by jmgustaf
Sherlock Holmes A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

4.0

I thoroughly enjoyed both stories, but “A Study in Scarlet” was the better of the two, in my opinion. I have read both before, but got more out of them this time. The thought that must’ve gone into the minutiae of the cases and the well written prose of Doyle are a definite treat. We get the classic Holmes quote, “How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” I love this quote, but it is a false dichotomy. It assumes that there is only one possibility outside of the impossible. I understand the implication of Holmes’s deductive genius, but there’s infinite variables in life’s scenarios.