Story #7

This next story is called, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." A young woman named Helen Stoner concults with Holmes about the suspicious death of her sister, Julia. They think it is her stepfather, because when their mom died the houses went up in price but if either of the daughters get married the price drops significantly, they were both going to het married; but now one is dead leaving only one daughter getting married. The stepfather had sent a very poisoness snake to Julia's room which had killed her and now he is trying to send it after her sister. Holmes attacks the snake and it takes shelter in an air duct which is connected to the stepfather's room and it bites him, he dies within seconds.

Story #6

Dr. Watson was called upon by a female friend. She said that her husband had been missing for several days and that he was an opium addict, she was sure that he was in a dangerous drug binge in East End opium den. Mr. Neville St. Clair, his wife had seen him standing in the window of a second floor of the opium den, but when she noticed him he withdrew from the window immediately. In the room a beggar is found with his coat and several pounds of pennies. The beggar is arrested. Then several days later his wife receives a letter in his handwriting, which leads Holmes back to the prison with a washing sponge. He washes the filth off the beggars face and it happens to be Mr. Neville St. Clair. He was living a double life to pay off debts from the earnings he made as a beggar.

Story #5

This story is called, "The Five Orange Pips." A guy comes to Holmes with a strange story. He said his uncle Elias came back to England to live after being a planter in Florida for many years. He wasn't married so he allowed his nephew to stay with him. His nephew could go anywhere in the house except one locked room. a second thingwas he received a letter entitled k.k.k with 5 orange pips inside it, which are seeds. Strange things started happening, he burned all of his papers that were in his locked room and made a will leaving his house to his nephew and started drinking. On May 2, 1883 he was found dead in his garden pool. Holmes sends 5 orange pips to k.k.k members and sends out an arrest warrant for them, and to find their boat called, "the lone star." the murderers were not caught.

Story #4

This story is called, "The Boscombe Valley Mystery." Holmes is asked by a man to investigate a death of a man named Charles McCarthy. A detective from that area is already on the case and things he has it already solved and figured out, and that the murderer is the guys son, James. Holmes does not believe and thinks that the facts don't fit. Holmes says that it would be impossible for the son to kill his father due to the angle of the wound and where his son was standing. Holmes figures out it was a guy named Old Turner, but does not arrest him because he says that he killed McCarthy because he was trying to get his son to marry his daughter so they could take his money. The court rules that it wasn't James and Old Turner dies 7 months later of an illness.

Story #3

If you could rewrite anything about your book what would it be and why? Summarize what you have read since tuesday.

I would not change anything about this book, because i really like the stories and crimes that Holmes investigates.



This story starts out with Dr. Watson and Holmes talking about some cases that he has but are not very interesting. Then Holmes stands up and looks out the blinds and sees a bigger woman standing outside. She runs up to the door and rings the bell so he lets her in. She says her name is Miss Mary Sutherland. She tells Holmes that she met a guy at a dance named Mr. Hosmel Angel and they fell in love, they were planning on getting married. The day of the wedding he rented a very fancy cab for Miss Sutherland and her mom, but he road in a cab to the church. When they arrived he was not in the cab and had just dissapeared, the cab driver said he swore he saw the man get in but never saw him get out. Holmes does some digging and finds out that it was the step dad acting like a different guy so his Miss Sutherland wouldn't find a man and waist their money.

Story #2, The Red-Headed League

Describe the setting- include location, time period, and socioeconomic characteristic.



This story takes place in London. It is Autumn and its the year 1890. Dr. Watson walks into Holmes' house to find him talking to a very red-headed man. The man's name is Mr. Jabez Wilson. He came to Holmes with a problem, he said that he had found an add in the paper stating that there was a job opening for a red-headed man, who had to be a certain age, and had to have very blazing red hair. He tells Holmes about traveling to the location of the interview and that the guy had chose him to fill the office. He copied dictionaries, and only worked for about Four hours daily. After about a month of working there for about a month he got a note on the door saying that the business was closed. he asked the guy who gave him the job but he said he didnt kbow what Jabez was talking about. He came to Holmes asking for him to solve the case. They set up a plan to hide out in a room that has three-hundred thousand dollars in it. They had been waiting for awhile when the door of the room opened a crack and a guys hand poked through. then the guy walked in and Holmes flashed the light on and grabbed the guy and he also had an accomplice with him. They turned the lights on and it was Jabez and his assistant that works with him at his small business. Jabez's assistant was really a wanted criminal, and they had both been plotting to steal the money and had dug a tunnel underground to the room where the money was as an escape route. Jabez jumped down it, and was later caught later at his house (thats where the tunnel led to).

Story #1, A Scandal in Bohemia

Give a physical description as well as a description of each character's personality. Does the author use a direct or indirect method of revealing the character?



The book, "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," is written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes profession is a private detective. He also has a partner named Dr. Watson. Other characters are Irene Adler, Count von Kramm (Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein), he is the Grand Duke and hereditary King of Bohemia.

The first story is titled, "A Scandal in Bohemia." It starts with Dr. Watson telling you about "the woman," she is a girl that Count von Kramm was seeing when he was younger; but now he wants to marry a Princess from Scandanavia. He has a problem though, "the woman," is threatening to send a picture of Count von Kramm and, "the woman," to his soon to be wife. He has tried to send his own guards to raid her room and try to find the picture but they had no luck. He heard Holmes is the best and decides to higher him. Holmes does some detective work and finds out where she lives, what she does, when she leaves her house. He comes up with a plan to get in and get her to show him where the picture is without asking her to show him. Holmes goes into her house after faking an injury and Watson throws a cigar and yells fire, she runs straight to the spot where she hid the picture and that spot just so happens to be a sliding door in the wall. Holmes tells the Count what he has learned about the picture and they rush back to her house to find that she has moved away. He slides the hidden door open and finds a note and a picture of her in her night gown. The note said that she had caught on to Holmes. She also said that she wouldn't send the picture to his soon to be wife.