3/13/17

  For the last few days, I have finished the four, or perhaps three, long novels of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Authur Conan Doyle. The first story was The Study in Scarlet. This is the origin of how Dr. John H. Watson met Sherlock Holmes and their first case. In this case, there was a man mysteriously murdered in a house. In his hand is a wedding ring, and on the wall was the word "Rache" written in blood. The murderer was actually the man who was the carriage driver for the murdered man. His cause was revenging. He and a small metal container which had two types of pill, one with poison and the other without. How he murder that man is for two man to choose one pill and drink it. Whoever got the one with poison died. The murdered man's secretary was also murdered. But this time, he was shot. This was later explained as because the secretary doesn't go along with this and tried to attack the murderer, the murderer had to kill the secretary. The next story was called The Hound of Baskervilles. Sir Charles Baskervilles was murdered. Next to his corpse was foot prints of a hound. According to legend, there was a gigantic hound from hell haunting the Baskervilles. Henry Baskervilles is the next in line. But while he was in London, he got a warning message that he should not go near the moor near the Baskervilles Manor. That's why his friend consult Sherlock Holmes. It turns out that the man behidn this was also a Baskervilles that was thought to be dead. He wanted to kill the other Baskervilles so that he could claim as the heir. The hound was just a big hound with phosphorus painted about his eyes and mouth to make the visual effact that fire was comign out from them. The last story that I remembered what The Valley of Fear. There was a man murdered in his house. He was supposed to be the master of the house. But it was actually the man who went in to kill the master of the house, named Jack. Jack actually killed the man, but hide because he think that if he hides the other member of the society that spught out to kill him might think that he is dead. The second part of the story reveals why he was being hunted.