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Canon of Sherlock Holmes: Book 3
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Amid the foggy streets of sinister London and the even more sinister countryside, Holmes and Watson once more solve the unsolvable. This book is a collection of stories, including - A Scandal in Bohemia, A Case of Identity, The Red-Headed League & The Boscombe Valley Mystery.
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Summary edit
There isn't a "plot", there are just many short stories, only a few pages long.
Characters edit
- Sherlock Holmes: A master sleuth. Holmes only takes the most extraordinary cases. Friends with Doctor Watson.
- Dr. Watson: Sherlock Holmes friend who chronicles Holmes' cases. Sherlock Holmes companion in many of his exploits.
- Lestrade: A detective from Scotland Yard.
- Miss Irene Adler (Mrs Irene Norton): Appears in Adventure 1; Irene is the only woman to have ever outwitted Holmes; Loves Holmes.
- Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein: Appears in Adventure 1; Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein; hereditary King of Bohemia; Client of Holmes.
- Mr. Jabez Wilson: Appears in Adventure 2; A client of Holmes who owns a small pawnbroker's business.
- Mr. Duncan Ross: Appears in Adventure 2; Connected with the Red-Headed League; Also know as Mr. William Morris - solicitor.
- Vincent Spaulding: Appears in Adventure 2; The young assistant of Mr. Ross.
- Peter Jones: Appears in Adventure 2; An official police agent of the Scotland Yard.
- Mr. Merryweather: Appears in Adventure 2; A bank director.
- Miss Mary Sutherland: Appears in Adventure 3; A client of Holmes, who is looking for her missing bridegroom.
- Mr. Hosmer Angel: Appears in Adventure 3; The missing bridegroom of Miss Mary Sutherland.
- Mr. James Windibank: Appears in Adventure 3; Mary Sutherland's stepfather.
- John Turner: Appears in Adventure 4; A rich landlord, who used to live in Australia.
- Alice Turner: Appears in Adventure 4; John Turner's daughter; client of Sherlock Holmes.
- Charles McCarthy: Appears in Adventure 4; The murdered one; according to the statements of the witnesses, by his own son.
- James McCarthy: Appears in Adventure 4; Son of Charles McCarthy; accused and arrested for the murder of his father.
- Mr. John Openshaw: Appears in Adventure 5; A client of Sherlock Holmes; He is trying to find out who is responsible for the mysterious death of his uncle and his father.
- Elias Openshaw: Appears in Adventure; John Openshaw's uncle who spent some time in America, then returned to England; was in a very close relationship with his nephew; found dead after receiving a letter with five orange pips and initials "KKK".
- Joseph Openshaw: Appears in Adventure 5; John Openshaw's father; also found dead after receiving the same kind of mail as his brother Elias Openshaw.
- James Calhoun: Appears in Adventure 5; An American, captain of the Bark Lone Star.
- Isa Whitney: Appears in Adventure 6; Principal of the Theological College of St. George's; addicted to opium; missing so that his wife had to seek Dr. Watson's help.
- Mrs. Kate Whitney: Appears in Adventure 6; Isa's wife; she is looking for her missing husband with some help from Dr. Watson.
- Mr. Neville St. Clair: Appears in Adventure 6; A man who disappeared in an opium den. Husband of the client of Holmes.
- Hugh Boone: Appears in Adventure 6; A professional begger, lodger of the opium den and the last man who saw Mr. St. Clair; arrested as the suspect.
- Inspector Barton: A Scotland Yard officer in charge of the St. Clair's case.
- Inspector Bradstreet: Appears in Adventure 6; Involved in the final stage of the St. Clair's investigation.
- Countess of Morcar: Appears in Adventure 7; Her valuable gem, called Blue Carbuncle, was stolen.
- John Horner: Appears in Adventure 7; A plumber accused of stealing a gem.
- Dr. Grimesby Roylott: Appears in Adventure 8; A man living with his step-children and trying to resolve his financial problems; Step-father of Miss Helen Stoner.
- Miss Helen Stoner: Appears in Adventure 8; Stepdaughter of Dr. Roylott; her twin-sister Julia died rather mysteriously and she is afraid that she may be next to die; Client of Holmes.
- Percy Armitage: Appears in Adventure 8; A young man who wants to marry Helen Stoner.
- Victor Hatherley: Appears in Adventure 9; A hydraulic engineer, who lost his thumb in mysterious circumstances; He seeks help from Sherlock Holmes to understand what happened to him.
- Lysander Stark: Appears in Adventure 9; A colonel who employed Mr. Victor Hatherley to examine a hydraulic press; also called Fritz.
- Mr. Ferguson: Appears in Adventure 9; Involved in Lysander Stark's affairs.
- Elise: Appears in Adventure 9; A mysterious woman living with Lysander and Ferguson.
- Lord Robert Walshingham de Vere St. Simon: Appears in Adventure 10; An aristocrat with financial problems, who tried to solved them by marrying an American girl from a rich family but his newly-wedded bride goes missing shortly after the wedding.
- Miss Hatty Doran: Appears in Adventure10; A fiancee of Lord St. Simon, from a rich Californian family; she vanished at her wedding breakfast.
- Frank Moulton: Appears in Adventure 10; A young American man.
- Alexander Holder: Appears in Adventure 11; A banker who has lent a great sum of money to a respectable aristocrat who gave him a valuable diadem as a pledge; the diadem is then stolen.
- Lucy Parr: Appears in Adventure 11; A maid in Alexander Holder's house.
- Arthur Holder: Appears in Adventure 11; Alexander Holder's son, a great disappointment to his father, with constant financial problems.
- Sir George Burnwell: Appear is Adventure 11; Arthur Holder's friend.
- Mary: Appears in Adventure 11; Alexander Holder's niece; adopted by him.
- Miss Violet Hunter: Appears in Adventure 12; A client of Sherlock Holmes; she is not sure if she should accept the position of governess and wants advice.
- Jephro Rucastle: Appears in Adventure12; He offered Miss Violet Hunter a well-paid position of a governess in his house.
- Alice Rucastle: Appears in Adventure 12; Jephro Rucastle's daughter.
Quotes edit
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“"It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."”
Sherlock Holmes -
““My dear fellow, life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent."”
Sherlock Holmes -
““Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different."”
Sherlock Holmes -
““It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
Sherlock Holmes -
“"My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago."”
Watson -
“So accustomed was I to his invariable success than the very possibility of his failing had ceased to enter into my head.”
Watson -
“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.”
Sherlock Holmes
Setting & Locations edit
- London: Primary setting
- Lord St. Simon
- England
- Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes, lives at 221B Baker Street. Baker Street is in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster in London. It is named after builder William Baker, who laid the street out in the 18th century.
- Bohemia
- Horsham
- America
- Winchester
- Briony Lodge
- Scotland Yard
- Brixton Road
- Bristol
- France
- Europe
- Ballarat
- China
- Pondicherry
- Paddington
- Eyford
- Savannah
- Trincomalee: The principal port of Sri Lanka on the east coast.
Organizations edit
- Baker Street Irregulars: A group of street urchins that Holmes would sometimes use to help solve cases.
- K.K.K.: Holmes deals with the Ku Klux Klan in one of his cases. Often abbreviated KKK and informally known as The Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy and nationalism. The current manifestation is splintered into several chapters and is widely considered to be a hate group. The first KKK flourished in the South in the 1860s, then died out by the early 1870s. The second KKK flourished nationwide in the early and mid 1920s, and adopted the costumes and paraphernalia of the first Klan. The third Klan emerged after World War II. Their iconic white costumes consisted of robes, masks, and conical hat. The first and third KKK had a well-established record of using terrorism, but historians debate how central that tactic was to the second KKK.
First Sentence edit
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman.
Table of Contents edit
I. A Scandal in Bohemia
II. The Red-headed League
III. A Case of Identity
IV. The Boscombe Valley Mystery
V. The Five Orange Pips
VI. The Man with the Twisted Lip
VII. The Adventure of Blue Carbuncle
VIII. The Adventure of the Speckled Band
IX. The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
X. The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
XI. The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
XII. The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Errata edit
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Series & Lists edit
This is book 3 of 9 in Canon of Sherlock Holmes. (standard series)
Preceded by The Sign of Four, and followed by The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
This book is in Folio Society. (edition-based publisher list)
This book is in Readers Digest Press. (edition-based publisher list)
This book is in Heritage Press. (edition-based publisher list)
This is book 805 of 1272 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)
Preceded by The Diary of a Nobody, and followed by News From Nowhere.
This book is in Easton Press. (edition-based publisher list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Chris Sasaki
- Malvina G. Vogel
- Richard Lebenson (Illustrator)
- Fred Strebeigh (Afterword)
- Jo Polseno (Illustrator)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: George Newnes
Country: England
Publication Date: 1892
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 320
Publisher: George Newnes
Country: England
Publication Date: 1892
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 320
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.8
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Project Gutenberg: Free e-book, full text
- Librivox: Free audio book read by Ruth Golding, Total running time: 13:29:27
- Librivox: Free audio book read by Mark F. Smith, Total running time: 11:14:43
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