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sherlock60This week we are reading The Adventure of the Three Gables. It carries the themes of tangled or foiled romances and retiring or settling down. I had suggested we could perhaps for this round use the themes for the canon cases as themes for the 60s. Thoughts?
Our story is from late in the approximate chronological order of the stories, but it starts out as strong as many of the other cases. And dramatically as well.
Dear Watson stops by for a visit and no sooner does he that a large man interrupts the conversation with a threat for Holmes who, in his usual manner, does not appear to be alarmed. In fact, he seems thrilled by the interruption and quickly catches the intruder off guard with a reference to a previous murder. It turns out that this bruiser is in the employer of a man who is working for another.
Watson follows Holmes to a quiet area to visit a -- at first appearance -- run down home. Inside however is a widow who recently lost her son and has received an offer for the house and the things inside. Watson shines in his study of Holmes' methods by quickly pointing out that something new has appeared in the home and the widow is not meant to know what it is.
The maid is given the boot for overhearing and we discover that she is a plant -- maybe to get the item before the offer was made or to avoid too many complications? We many never know.
We do know however that the interested buyer acts quickly and the item in question -- a romance novel written by the widow's son -- is stolen. Or was it retrieved? Holmes follows the trail to the home of a Spanish beauty set to marry someone she considers more worth her attention than the dead son. I suspect she might have been talking with a Ms. Adler.
Holmes wraps up the case neatly thereafter, leaving the police to conduct the arrests and securing some funds for the poor widow to enjoy a tour around the world for her trouble and to buy silence from the Spanish beauty.
What are your thoughts, fellow readers? Too neat? Too easy? Did you, like I did, suspect that there was actually more to this case than it actually ended up being? I definitely had the idea that some other case was being worked out in this one, though I cannot put my finger on what.
Our story is from late in the approximate chronological order of the stories, but it starts out as strong as many of the other cases. And dramatically as well.
Dear Watson stops by for a visit and no sooner does he that a large man interrupts the conversation with a threat for Holmes who, in his usual manner, does not appear to be alarmed. In fact, he seems thrilled by the interruption and quickly catches the intruder off guard with a reference to a previous murder. It turns out that this bruiser is in the employer of a man who is working for another.
Watson follows Holmes to a quiet area to visit a -- at first appearance -- run down home. Inside however is a widow who recently lost her son and has received an offer for the house and the things inside. Watson shines in his study of Holmes' methods by quickly pointing out that something new has appeared in the home and the widow is not meant to know what it is.
The maid is given the boot for overhearing and we discover that she is a plant -- maybe to get the item before the offer was made or to avoid too many complications? We many never know.
We do know however that the interested buyer acts quickly and the item in question -- a romance novel written by the widow's son -- is stolen. Or was it retrieved? Holmes follows the trail to the home of a Spanish beauty set to marry someone she considers more worth her attention than the dead son. I suspect she might have been talking with a Ms. Adler.
Holmes wraps up the case neatly thereafter, leaving the police to conduct the arrests and securing some funds for the poor widow to enjoy a tour around the world for her trouble and to buy silence from the Spanish beauty.
What are your thoughts, fellow readers? Too neat? Too easy? Did you, like I did, suspect that there was actually more to this case than it actually ended up being? I definitely had the idea that some other case was being worked out in this one, though I cannot put my finger on what.
