SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES (2)
This book is about Sherlock Holmes solving a mistery (as allways), this in particular has no clues aparently, but Holmes sees beyond anyone else can. So the history is developed showing us that he had all the clues needed and still we weren't able to solve it.
The story begins describing the crime giving us the false idea that the case is allmost solved by it self. At King's Pyland someone stole a racehorse just before a race in wich the was a lot of bet money involved, and it's trainer Straker was murdered. The night that happened, the maid saw a strange man trying to get information about the horses, of course that wasn`t permited so he was told to leave the place, the next morning Straker was found dead with a sharp wound in his leg and the boy that helped them was found sleeping, it seems that the murdered had putt some opium in the the boys chicken, so he woudn't see anything. As I said before the mistery seems allmost solve, but Holmes first concern was to find the horse.
He thought that horses like to be with horses, so he went to a stable near by, he described to the men there everything he had done, acusing him to steal the horse, Holmes was so accurate that the man actually thought that Holmes had seen him, so he confesed. Later on Holmes checks what was on straker's pockets and founds what actually solves the crime, a little knigf meant to perform accurate cuts (medical stuff). The next two big clues were that the dog didn't bark or make any noise when the stranger was there, so Holmes realized that for that to happen was necesary that the stranger wasn't a stranger at all, and second one was that the sheep were cut on the back of their feet making them lame, so conclusion was that Straker indeed tried to arrange the race by making the horse lame, but it when out of control and he was killed bye the horse.
In my opinion Doyle is the greatest (or one of the greatest) mistery tellers, it is so much fun try to figure out what happen in reality in all the cases, in everyone of them he gives us all the tools to find out before he tells us but a least I can't never see it before the author tells me, which I think is great, it's what makes to be worthwhile reading it.
In conclusion I truly recomend anyone who likes mistery to read Conan Doyle'stories, I can assure you, you won't regret it, and this one in particular is really good, of course there must be better ones, so I guess I am telling that I would like to read them all.
SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES (1)
THE SPECKLED BAND
One of the amazing Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is The speckled band. It is about a murdered by Dr Roylott, that after his wife death, he tries to keep all her money just for him. Helen Stoner is an english young woman that find Sherlock Homles because has a suspicious of her sister`s death. Julia (her sister) had been egaged to be married so she would received some money from her mother`s income.
On the other side, her stepfather Dr Roylott, had killed a man and was sent to prision for many years but later he returned to England. He did not seem to oppose the Julia`s wedding, however, one nigth shortly before the marriage, Julia went to the Helen`s room and said that he had been listening a whistle in recent nights but she didn`t know where it came from. After the conversation, Julia returned to her room where minutes later died. Before Julia died, she screamed Helen: oh my God, it was the speckled band!, bur police never discovered the cause.
Now, Helen is engaged to be married and she is afraid so asks Homes for help. Holmes investigate matters and discover Roylott will lose a lot of money if Helen marries. Then Holmes an his friend, Watson, go to the Dr Roylott`s house, enter in his room and see a strange bell cord over the bed.
That night they go back to that room and suddenly hear a whistle. Holmes sees what the bell cord is realy for and Speckled band were in fact describing the deadliest snake in India. The snake had been sent to Julia`s room by Dr to murder her and after the snake bit Julia he called teh snake with the whistling which made it climb up throug the bell cord, disappearing from de scene. Now the snake is sent again to kill Helen but Holmes attacks the sanke, sending it back through the air ventilator conected to the next room. The snake attacks Dr Roylott and he die.
Doyle reveled that he thought this was his best Holmes strory. I can`t agree because I have not read all his stories but I think this one is so good. The interesting thing here is that we know that Dr Roylott is guilty, is obvious, but I could not imagine how did he do it.
In this case, is incredible how somebody can be able to murder his “daugthers”. This talks about the wrong society in which we live. But also in the ingenuity to do something to get something else.Well, you should read this story, I never got bored and all the time was thinking, that's what I think is the objective of any mistery book, isn`t it?.