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Four Sherlock Holmes Stories
Title: Four Sherlock Holmes Stories
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Stories:
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
Sherlock Holmes helps Inspector Lestrade, who follows wrong trails, to solve the enigma of the plaster busts of Napoleon which were broken. He goes to where a third bust was destroyed, under a standard lamp, and where a murder was committed. The victim is an Italian. Holmes catches the criminal in the act at the owner of the fifth bust’s and buys the sixth from its owner because it is understood that the very precious black pearl of Borgia which had disappeared had been hidden by the Italian workman in the soft plaster of one of the busts.
The Adventure of the Three Students
Mr Hilton Soames, director of a college, is the person in charge of an important test in Greek for the granting of a bursary, sees that the test has been consulted by a visitor who has left evidence of his passage. He asks for Holmes’ assistance. He raises questions, goes on the spot, does a reconstruction: the recopied sheets, the broken and re-cut pencil, a small pellet found on the desk and then another in the contiguous room where the thief had to hide.
However, three students are suspected. The detective visits two of the rooms, arranging to have to make use of his pencil and re-cut it. The third does not open his door. He does not neglect either the servant who is guilty of having left his key in the lock of the door.
The following day, after having left and having brought back a third pellet, he says he has solved the problem: he shows the servant to have allowed the person hidden in the room to dodge him and declares that the guilty student is the largest, who, moreover, made a jump with shoes with points which left the two pellets. This student, having repented during the night, decides to give up the contest and the servant acknowledges that he had protected him because he had served his father.
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Sherlock Holmes is called by Miss Alice Turner to clear her of the murder of her own father. Someone saw her arguing with him, but she claims to be innocent. The meticulous investigation makes it possible to define the characteristics of the assassin. It could be the father of the young girl. The two men knew each other in Australia, and one , the father of the young girl, grew rich there by stealing gold, and was subjected to the blackmail of the other who, after having obtained some land, wanted their two children to marry.
The Man with the Twisted Lip
Sherlock Holmes is in search of Mr St Clair, a commuter who works in the City and who has disappeared, his clothing alone being found in the river. However, his wife had seen him at the window of a tavern in a poor district. A beggar with a twisted lip stayed there. If he was ugly he was also skilful and earned a lot of money. The woman received written word in the hand of the missing man. Holmes spent the night thinking, cleaned the beggar and erased the twisted lip: it was the commuter.
My Opinion: I found these four stories very interesting. I like Holmes stories very much. I read many of them. I like his way of reasoning and of dealing with the cases. I find that what Holmes finds is very simple but we don’t see it though he does. The moment that I adore in these books is the famous sentence ‘Elementary, my dear Watson’.
Posted by: Julien Bellanger (and an online translation service!)