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.