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Summary for pages 182-321 "Sherlock Holmes"
Summaries:
The Speckled Band:
The setting of the story is at Holmes's office, basically one of the most intriguing past cases that Holmes has solved. On their visit to a man who had reported a lady in his apartment, they went and looked to check who she was and what had happen. On entering her apartment they were shocked of how she was, dressed in black, a veil covering her face, and trembling. As they find out that she was shocked from news from her family that there has been sudden disappearance of her 2 grand kids. As Holmes goes to her hometown to ask about the disappearance, no one wanted to say anything, just from Holmes perspective he could already tell that the person behind all this was a citizen from this town. At the end of the story, Holmes solves the case and figures out that everyone in the village just wanted to shock the old woman and make her worry until she dies, so they could get all her inheritance from her will early.
The Engineer's Thumb
The start of the story is when a man suddenly walks into the room and tells that there has been an incident with one of his coworkers, has lost his thumb so suddenly. As they go to meet with the man who has lost his thumb he found out that the man was so shocked because he saw his thumb get cut out, but didn't feel anything. Nor did he see where his thumb went, as Holmes start their mystery finding they find out that the end of the story that a man called Dr. Drownor has been behind many cases like this in different cities all over the country. And that he has been collecting different people's thumbs.
There is a second novel so this is just the first......
The Speckled Band:
The setting of the story is at Holmes's office, basically one of the most intriguing past cases that Holmes has solved. On their visit to a man who had reported a lady in his apartment, they went and looked to check who she was and what had happen. On entering her apartment they were shocked of how she was, dressed in black, a veil covering her face, and trembling. As they find out that she was shocked from news from her family that there has been sudden disappearance of her 2 grand kids. As Holmes goes to her hometown to ask about the disappearance, no one wanted to say anything, just from Holmes perspective he could already tell that the person behind all this was a citizen from this town. At the end of the story, Holmes solves the case and figures out that everyone in the village just wanted to shock the old woman and make her worry until she dies, so they could get all her inheritance from her will early.
The Engineer's Thumb
The start of the story is when a man suddenly walks into the room and tells that there has been an incident with one of his coworkers, has lost his thumb so suddenly. As they go to meet with the man who has lost his thumb he found out that the man was so shocked because he saw his thumb get cut out, but didn't feel anything. Nor did he see where his thumb went, as Holmes start their mystery finding they find out that the end of the story that a man called Dr. Drownor has been behind many cases like this in different cities all over the country. And that he has been collecting different people's thumbs.
There is a second novel so this is just the first......
Monday, November 19, 2012
Pg 107-182 "Sherlock Holmes"
Summary
The Five Orange Pips:
The Story starts as Watson ravages through all the files of Holmes's old cases, and suddenly comes across a case that Holmes had solved through common logic, and has yet to be proven. As the setting of the case sets in; Watson is scheduled to stay at Holmes place for a few days and his wife was visiting her mother, suddenly there was a knock at the door and a young man comes in. He then apologizes to Sherlock for the intrusion and then explains his story, he tells about his life and that there has been weird problems that have been occurring lately. At the end of the story, Holmes gets angry when the young man that had visited him is suddenly killed by a gang that had issues with his family. Angered Holmes immediately got up early the next morning and successfully tracked the leader of the gang and brought him to justice, as he explains to Watson how he tracked the gang, he said that he just used his luck to guide him.
The Man with the Twisted Lip:
The story starts with a tragic tale of a guy named Isa Whitney, an opium addict who first tried the drug because he read Thomas de Quincey.One night, in June of 1889, a woman comes to his house late at night: Kate Whitney, Isa's wife, who's a friend of Mrs. Watson.Kate is desperate for help: Isa Whitney has been missing for two days, and she needs Watson to go to an opium den on the east side of London to get him. She can't go by herself because it's not a safe part of town. So Watson heads out to the slums of London in the middle of the night. He finds Isa completely high, having totally lost track of time, and tries to drag his drugged up butt out of the opium den.
But as Watson goes to find out how much Isa owes, a tall, bent, wrinkled old man suddenly touches the skirt of his coat and tells Watson to keep walking and to look back without drawing attention to them.Watson obeys. When he looks over his shoulder, for a brief second he recognizes Holmes before his friend goes back to his old fellow disguise.Holmes tells Watson to put his drugged friend in a cab and then wait outside for five minutes so they can talk.Holmes continues with his disguise for two blocks as he strolls next to Watson, and then he stands up straight and resumes his normal appearance.Holmes asks his friend if he thinks Holmes has added opium to his cocaine addiction? But no! He's on a case, and he's in disguise because the owner of the opium den would kill him on the spot if he recognized Holmes.
As the end of the case Holmes solves the case by finding and bringing the leader of the opium warehouse to justice.
The Five Orange Pips:
The Story starts as Watson ravages through all the files of Holmes's old cases, and suddenly comes across a case that Holmes had solved through common logic, and has yet to be proven. As the setting of the case sets in; Watson is scheduled to stay at Holmes place for a few days and his wife was visiting her mother, suddenly there was a knock at the door and a young man comes in. He then apologizes to Sherlock for the intrusion and then explains his story, he tells about his life and that there has been weird problems that have been occurring lately. At the end of the story, Holmes gets angry when the young man that had visited him is suddenly killed by a gang that had issues with his family. Angered Holmes immediately got up early the next morning and successfully tracked the leader of the gang and brought him to justice, as he explains to Watson how he tracked the gang, he said that he just used his luck to guide him.
The Man with the Twisted Lip:
The story starts with a tragic tale of a guy named Isa Whitney, an opium addict who first tried the drug because he read Thomas de Quincey.One night, in June of 1889, a woman comes to his house late at night: Kate Whitney, Isa's wife, who's a friend of Mrs. Watson.Kate is desperate for help: Isa Whitney has been missing for two days, and she needs Watson to go to an opium den on the east side of London to get him. She can't go by herself because it's not a safe part of town. So Watson heads out to the slums of London in the middle of the night. He finds Isa completely high, having totally lost track of time, and tries to drag his drugged up butt out of the opium den.
But as Watson goes to find out how much Isa owes, a tall, bent, wrinkled old man suddenly touches the skirt of his coat and tells Watson to keep walking and to look back without drawing attention to them.Watson obeys. When he looks over his shoulder, for a brief second he recognizes Holmes before his friend goes back to his old fellow disguise.Holmes tells Watson to put his drugged friend in a cab and then wait outside for five minutes so they can talk.Holmes continues with his disguise for two blocks as he strolls next to Watson, and then he stands up straight and resumes his normal appearance.Holmes asks his friend if he thinks Holmes has added opium to his cocaine addiction? But no! He's on a case, and he's in disguise because the owner of the opium den would kill him on the spot if he recognized Holmes.
As the end of the case Holmes solves the case by finding and bringing the leader of the opium warehouse to justice.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
summary for "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"
Summary (pg. 57-106)
There are basically two more stories in these few pages.
A case of Identity:
At the beginning of this story, Homes said, "life is stranger than anything a person could make up". This story talks about Homes complaining that there is no interesting case that was there to be solved, at that moment he noticed a woman pacing back and forth the alley and suddenly staggers up to his office and ring his door bell. Homes then asks Watson if that woman was a client, Watson then says to him that yes she is. As she comes into his quarters, he asks her a question about if she is a typist, and as always he is dead on. She then tells him about her problem, her problem is that her father, Mr Holmer Angel is missing and can't be found, and with him was a person that she loves.
As they start to look for this missing Mr. Holmer the mystery starts when Holmes tells the lady , Mary Sutherland, that she sould just give up on her wanting to see Mr. Angel, but he also said that he will try his best to find on what happen to her lost love. As the story ends it seemed that Holmes had all the right answers whenever he and some sort of problems. The story ends as that Mr. Angel went on hiding when he felt guilty about stealing Miss Mary's money, and so it tells that the love of Miss Marry was also but an accomplice in stealing the money. In the end they were never found again.
The Boscombe Valley Mystery:
At the start of the story it mentions Watson having breakfast when he suddenly receives a telegraph from Holmes asking his help immediately and that they are to meet the next day. Telling his wife about the telegraph she agrees that he should go and meet up with Holmes and tells him that it is good for him, for he enjoys all the times when he goes on these mysteries with Holmes. Upon meeting Holmes on the train, Holmes directly explains the scenario, and says," this is one of those cases that are simple but yet extreemly difficult".
The main mystery starts when 2 men named Mr. Charles McCarthy, and Mr. John Tunner. One day Mr. Charles said to one of his servents that he was going to go and take a walk, and the servant said that he was going towards the Tunner's house. On the way there they heard shouting and quarles and a gun shot. As upon their arrival Mr. Charles' daughter goes into the house and tells her mother that Mr. Tunner and her dad were in a fight. At that moment Mr. Tunner's son comes in with a bloody hand and a gun in hand saying that her dad was found dead in the pool of his house.
Being conceited of the murder he was trying to tell everyone that he was yet innocent, and even the daughter believed him. The ending of this story was that, it was found that the other body found in the woods turned out to be one of the 6 robbers that the son shot and the one in the pool was really Mr. Charles. As of that Mr. Tunner lived for more than 7 more months until he died from his injuries with the robbers.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Summary of Sherlock Holmes (Pg. 1-57)
On the first 57 pages of the book, it was of 2 stories.
Summary:
The main two characters are Sherlock and Watson, they are partners in crime solving. When a new person comes through the door, Sherlock could tell how tall that person was, what is his/her profession, and many other things about their identity. Like the time his comrade and old partner, Dr. Watson walked into his office after 2 years of not being able to see each other, Sherlock could already tell that it was Watson that was gonna walk through the door, he could tell that he has been practicing his medical abilities from the smell of some herbs from his cloak.
On the first story of the book, Sherlock helps solve a case against a woman who has stolen a prized picture from a king. As the king directly ask for help from Sherlock, he's cover was blown almost immediately by Sherlock, in uter suprisement the king frantically takes of his mask and asks the detective how he did it. Sherlock expains it through a series of observation, after the king told Sherlock of what his problem was, Sherlock stood up and commenced on the case right away. In the ending of the story the picture is retrieved when they ravaged the house of an actress who had stolen the king's picture while acting as a man in his palace. The woman wrote a letter to Sherlock telling him that she was very surprised of how he had closed the case in just 3 days. Addmitting all her faults she and her husband fled England and moved out to another country.
On the second story of the book, it is entitled "A Redheaded Leauge". I it is bascially about when Watson goes to visit Sherlock and finds him talking with a man with red hair. The man was talking about the problems concerning an organization for which he was working but that has mysteriously disappeared. In the end of the story they found ou that the people that were in charge of that company were plotting to just go into Wilson's house and start diging a tunnel leading straight to the bank, luckyly they were found out and the bank was safe.
Summary:
The main two characters are Sherlock and Watson, they are partners in crime solving. When a new person comes through the door, Sherlock could tell how tall that person was, what is his/her profession, and many other things about their identity. Like the time his comrade and old partner, Dr. Watson walked into his office after 2 years of not being able to see each other, Sherlock could already tell that it was Watson that was gonna walk through the door, he could tell that he has been practicing his medical abilities from the smell of some herbs from his cloak.
On the first story of the book, Sherlock helps solve a case against a woman who has stolen a prized picture from a king. As the king directly ask for help from Sherlock, he's cover was blown almost immediately by Sherlock, in uter suprisement the king frantically takes of his mask and asks the detective how he did it. Sherlock expains it through a series of observation, after the king told Sherlock of what his problem was, Sherlock stood up and commenced on the case right away. In the ending of the story the picture is retrieved when they ravaged the house of an actress who had stolen the king's picture while acting as a man in his palace. The woman wrote a letter to Sherlock telling him that she was very surprised of how he had closed the case in just 3 days. Addmitting all her faults she and her husband fled England and moved out to another country.
On the second story of the book, it is entitled "A Redheaded Leauge". I it is bascially about when Watson goes to visit Sherlock and finds him talking with a man with red hair. The man was talking about the problems concerning an organization for which he was working but that has mysteriously disappeared. In the end of the story they found ou that the people that were in charge of that company were plotting to just go into Wilson's house and start diging a tunnel leading straight to the bank, luckyly they were found out and the bank was safe.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
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