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.