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Holmes is Back: Top 3 Sherlock Holmes Novel

Written by: Gian Rey U. Cortez

“Mystery creates wonder and is the basis of man’s desire to understand”

-Neil Armstrong

They say that a book is a servant of a man who yearns to escape the reality of life. It really is, it’s a portal to a new reality where a man follows the flow of the river of fantasy and alternate reality.

Then, in speaking of alternate reality, a world of mystery and adventure is somewhat another interesting realm to travel to. People such as Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Hercule Poirrot, The Hardy Boys, or even the great and well known Mystery Machine with Scooby Doo are great characters well known for their great feats of solving mystery and adventure.

But today, we will discuss about books and specifically the top 3 Mystery books of Arthur Conan Doyle himself. Arthur Conan Doyle is a British writer who wrote Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes is one or perhaps I say the most well-known fictional detective ever created.

Before discussing about the books, fist, one must know who is Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes is a man who has an unknown parental background. He’s a man who created the concept Deduction and Analysis, whereas a man can identify another or situation with only focusing and observing the chains and even small details on the area or on a person. With a simple scar, the way a person talks, the way he walks, the stains on his shirt, the dirt on his shoes, the color of his skin, adding those small details, you can come to a conclusion that he has those small details on him because of his recent actions and recent actions will state the truth and past right by the man’s eyes. ---Well, enough with such detail, it’s too hard to explain but in short, Sherlock Holmes is a man of profound knowledge that can solve any mystery. His adventure starts with a book entitled: The Study in Scarlet

Proceeding with the blog itself, since, we are talking about mystery books, we’ll start with the Top 3 books of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes:

THE STUDY IN SCARLET

The Study in Scarlet is the first book of Arthur Conan Doyle and it was where Sherlock Holmes was introduced to the public. The story of The Study in Scarlet started with a murder of a man occurred in London, the thing about this murder is that there were no traces of how the murder occur. Aside from that event, it was a day when Dr. James Watson met Sherlock Holmes for the first time, how did this came to be? Dr. John Watson was once a military doctor who had been shot on the leg which was the cause of his honorable dismissal from the military. Having few money as monthly pension, he went seeking out for new lodgings, leaving the former hotel where he went to stay due to his decreasing budget. He met Holmes on a morgue where Holmes was beating a cadaver. Holmes was also looking for lodgings that time and it was Stamford who brought them together so they could find one and share one. They then knew about the 221B Baker Street and it was where they went to stay knew more about each other.

Now adding up about Holmes, did you know that even having such profound mind, he doesn’t know that the world revolves around the sun. Holmes is smart in many topics but he is weak in agriculture, astronomy, and a cocaine addict. Aside from his wisdom, he is also a boxer and an artisan in violin music.

Now, going back to the story, Holmes was approached by Inspector Lestrade for help, the lead inspector of the Scotland Yard. When Holmes became intrigued about the odd murder case, he went to aid Lestrade, taking in Watson with him to assist him. Eventually, they did solve it. The case was solve after another murder as a final lead. It was a crime of passion and revenge of Mormon lover.

The amazing thing about the case was that it was about the case was that when one will conduct murder, leave no clue behind such as how the murder was done. Poison was the method of murder and the murdered left a note from a different language which can sway any inspector if finds such clue.

How about you? What lead will you make and can you avoid it?

THE SIGN OF THE FOUR

Now, in this book, let’s talk about how Holmes was known to be addicted in Cocaine.

Before we talk about it, let’s go back to the time of war in India involving the Warring Tribes in India and British Soldiers. Since India was a vast land of treasure, the cases of British Soldiers taking advantage of its wealth, there were multiple case of looting and opportunities. There was a case for four men to share the loot of an Indian gold. They promised to each other that they’ll share the loot when they return to England and mad a seal so that they could have an identification for their lot, they were considered as THE FOUR.

The thing about this is that THE FOUR consists of two officers and two minor soldiers.

When they returned to England, a strange message was sent to lady with a gift asking her to meet the messenger in personal. Due to unreliability of the message, she employed Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson for verification and escort. It was there when knew a plot about the lady’s father disappearance way back and they also came to know about their host as the son of the lady’s father’s friend. Upon the unveiling of facts about the past, another case of theft and murder had occurred and had been tried to solve. The murder was another odd case in which the footprint of the murderer wasn’t a footprint of a normal man. It took some time to solve and catch the man who was responsible for the murder of the event. After the event, it was where when Watson moved out of the lodgings of 221B Baker Street because he became in love with their client and soon asked her hand for marriage, leaving Holmes behind in the lodgings. at the end, Holmes was revealed to be addicted to cocaine and it was his way to ease the sorrow of his friend leaving.

The last of the 3 books on the list will be a horror flick mystery. The last of the three books and also considered as one of the first volume is the:

HOUNDS OF THE BASKERVILLE.

In the case of the Hound of the Baskerville, it all started on the kidnapping and abuse of a lady. Hugo Baskerville way back once kidnapped a lady and abused her. One night, she escaped and went as far as the Moore. Hugo Baskerville went to try and chase her but when he reached the Moore, he was ravaged by large hounds. These hounds were said to be sent from hell to kill Baskerville himself because of his evil deeds. After that time, no man have ever ventured the Moore, especially any descendants of Hugo himself. They say that the Moore became cursed. A curse that was engraved to the line of Baskervilles.

So, that was the history of it.

Going back to the main plot, the Hounds of the Baskerville. The descendant of Hugo Baskerville named Henry Baskerville went back to their estate after leaving America for a long time. Most of the people around his neighborhood had been superstitious and was saying that he should stay away because of the curse. Not long that when he returned, another victim in the Moore had been savaged by an unknown creature.

Just after the events of the murder, Holmes was approached by another doctor through Watson due to the fact that he is concerned of what will probably happen to Henry Baskerville. Holmes went to assist Henry Baskerville by going to their estate with Watson, whom, from time to time returns to the lodging in Baker Street. After some time, Holmes and Watson stayed there but Holmes decided that he should leave to look for more inquiries, leaving Watson to watch over Henry Baskerville. Watson carried what was asked of him but without knowing, Holmes arrived to his conclusions. At the end, the time the mystery was solved was that Henry Baskerville became hard headed and went to the moore all by himself. Luckily, Watson managed to catch with him. Just in time that Henry was almost devoured by a group of hounds. The mystery had been lying all along the village’s politics. A man was breeding hounds and targeted Henry Baskerville as a threat and tried to murder him. The story ended up Holmes saving the two men and ending the mystery of the Hound of Baskervilles.

Sherlock Holmes mysteries are the leading sets of Mystery Books worldwide. The mentioned books above are only 3 of the many books created by Arthur Conan Doyle. There are still more amazing adventure that every readers could feast upon. Aside from Doyle, there more amazing Authors in mystery genre such as Agatha Christie.

The amazing thing about mystery books is that it not only makes you feel engaged in the story by answering questions but you learning how mystery unfolds .

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