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.