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sherlock60What did everyone think of The Adventure of the Copper Beeches? Some questions for pondering:
- Was Holmes ever really interested in Violet Hunter as anything more than a client? She was clever and curious, true, but beyond Watson's wishful (or at least so he would claim) thinking, is there any real evidence Holmes felt anything for her?
- How exactly was this plan by Mr. Rucastle supposed to work? The fiancée was supposed to be convinced by an impostor in his beloved's dress in the window -- always laughing hysterically with her back to the window, always in that same electric blue dress. This strange set of circumstances was meant to deter him rather than make him even more concerned? And what exactly was the plan with Alice? What would happen to her if she did sign the papers? Was she just supposed to die locked away? What was the nature of her illness? Stress, heredity, poison?
- What happened to the first Mrs. Rucastle? All we know of her is that she is dead. Natural causes, or something else? How much complicity did the second Mrs. Rucastle have in this scheme? Holmes believed the frighteningly violent son acquired his cruelty from her. Will the son grow to be a serial killer himself some day, given his youthful torturous proclivities?
- Was Holmes ever really interested in Violet Hunter as anything more than a client? She was clever and curious, true, but beyond Watson's wishful (or at least so he would claim) thinking, is there any real evidence Holmes felt anything for her?
- How exactly was this plan by Mr. Rucastle supposed to work? The fiancée was supposed to be convinced by an impostor in his beloved's dress in the window -- always laughing hysterically with her back to the window, always in that same electric blue dress. This strange set of circumstances was meant to deter him rather than make him even more concerned? And what exactly was the plan with Alice? What would happen to her if she did sign the papers? Was she just supposed to die locked away? What was the nature of her illness? Stress, heredity, poison?
- What happened to the first Mrs. Rucastle? All we know of her is that she is dead. Natural causes, or something else? How much complicity did the second Mrs. Rucastle have in this scheme? Holmes believed the frighteningly violent son acquired his cruelty from her. Will the son grow to be a serial killer himself some day, given his youthful torturous proclivities?
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