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sherlock60Happy new year, everyone! Our story this week to read and write about is The Adventure of the Lion's Mane. What did you think of it? As always, here are some questions and thoughts to get you started. Please add your own!
- Question one, the only question that matters to the case: Was McPherson wet or not? Holmes' entire investigation is predicated on the fact that McPherson's towel left on the beach was dry. But was McPherson himself dry? Presumably not, given he was stung to death by a jellyfish. But this extremely pertinent fact is somehow overlooked by Holmes and it takes him a week to make up for missing it to finally solve the case. Even he admits, "It was the towel which misled me." But who cares about the towel in the first place? The best way to tell if the man had been swimming was to see if he was wet, easy to do since the detective watched him die. How did Holmes miss such an important piece of evidence? Are his skills waning in his later years? (It would seem not, as later comes His Last Bow, an elaborate investigation requiring two years to complete.)
- Watson is not with Holmes at this point in his life, and you can feel his lack in Holmes' words. He gets only occasional weekend visits by the doctor at his "lonely" house. Watson is "beyond [his] ken". Why is that? Do you think he ever makes the trip to visit Watson? Perhaps he is so busy in his new social life it doesn't matter? He has multiple friends now, at least one somewhat close. Does he really need Watson anymore? Did he ever?
- If Holmes doesn't need Watson as a companion anymore, he could still surely use him as a doctor in this case. Holmes personally encounters two people in need of emergency treatment, one brought to his own doorstep. Plus, it's not out of the question that Watson would have recognized the wounds as jellyfish stings not flail marks, and put an end to the question of willful murder before it even began.
- Holy crap, Murdoch once threw McPherson's dog through a plate glass window! Wow. And he didn't even get fired for that, at a school!
- Question one, the only question that matters to the case: Was McPherson wet or not? Holmes' entire investigation is predicated on the fact that McPherson's towel left on the beach was dry. But was McPherson himself dry? Presumably not, given he was stung to death by a jellyfish. But this extremely pertinent fact is somehow overlooked by Holmes and it takes him a week to make up for missing it to finally solve the case. Even he admits, "It was the towel which misled me." But who cares about the towel in the first place? The best way to tell if the man had been swimming was to see if he was wet, easy to do since the detective watched him die. How did Holmes miss such an important piece of evidence? Are his skills waning in his later years? (It would seem not, as later comes His Last Bow, an elaborate investigation requiring two years to complete.)
- Watson is not with Holmes at this point in his life, and you can feel his lack in Holmes' words. He gets only occasional weekend visits by the doctor at his "lonely" house. Watson is "beyond [his] ken". Why is that? Do you think he ever makes the trip to visit Watson? Perhaps he is so busy in his new social life it doesn't matter? He has multiple friends now, at least one somewhat close. Does he really need Watson anymore? Did he ever?
- If Holmes doesn't need Watson as a companion anymore, he could still surely use him as a doctor in this case. Holmes personally encounters two people in need of emergency treatment, one brought to his own doorstep. Plus, it's not out of the question that Watson would have recognized the wounds as jellyfish stings not flail marks, and put an end to the question of willful murder before it even began.
- Holy crap, Murdoch once threw McPherson's dog through a plate glass window! Wow. And he didn't even get fired for that, at a school!
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