‘Sherlock Holmes’ is one of the best-known mystery fiction novels around the world. The author of this fiction, Conan Doyle, cleverly set the background of the novel so that even the background itself is very absorbing. It makes every queer detail natural. It makes the story so real that people often mistake this novel as nonfiction. The novel is storytelling from Dr. Watson, who is sometimes an assistant, about a detective named Sherlock Holmes and his journey of solving the mystery in the late nineteenth century. If existing detectives were a problem-solving machine, Sherlock Holmes is a bizarre but very respective detective with a variety of appealing but unusual personality. Dr. John H. Watson is rather a very normal person like most of us. He doesn’t have any special eyes or the ability of special thinking, or in Holmes’s words, a talent for making an inference, but he is a thankful writer who recorded all the wonderfulness of Holmes. By comparing his little insecurities with Holmes’s unreal abilities helps the reader gaze upon Holmes and understand how he is great at his job.
The stories of each case are all well knitted and tight. By Holmes’s distinctive and unique style of keenly depicting a person makes the cases even more interesting. Dr. Watson continually says that the world has lost a great actor, a decent music composer, and a fine scientist as Holmes decided to bury himself in a crime scene. He also says that he loves to see his mate in a distinctive posture for hours whenever he is in deep thinking. But even without Dr. Watson kindly describing him to the readers, the readers can definitely feel the immersing strangeness of Holmes by Holmes himself. He is ruthless but polite, impatient but patient, mad but respectful. His actions are often indescribable but somehow it is forgivable because he is Sherlock the great. Sherlock makes very keen and marvelous inferences just by seeing his clients on first sight which always surprises the clients, Watson, and even the readers.
My favorite case is called ‘A Case of Identity’. It is not the best-known cases but there is a twist which is still so remarkable when reading even though I guessed it. It was about a gruesome stepfather of a young woman who wanted her wealth so bad that he disguised and tried to marry her. I was more shocked by the person than how Sherlock managed it. The case showed the general cunning personality so strikingly. I was surprised by how the could author make me feel so betrayed and upset of how he even thought of lying to his daughter. Like this case, the book is filled with lots of daring and queer mysteries and outstanding performances of Sherlock. I can dare say that this novel was the starting point of a whole new chapter of the mysteries’ history.
Every new case starts at 221B Baker Street, London, the center of the British Empire, Sherlock and Dr. Watson’s home and workplace.
The novel is storytelling from Dr. Watson, who is sometimes an assistant, about a detective named Sherlock Holmes and his journey of solving the mystery in the late nineteenth century.
