Reading suggestion:”A Scandal in Bohemia”

 You are just about to finish your course. Summer is around the corner, Why don’t you read something?
My suggestion is “A Scandal in Bohemia”, which illustrates perfectly how a detective’s story can be exciting and amazing without any violence.
 
Why “A Scandal in Bohemia”?
“A Scandal in Bohemia”was the first of Arthur Conan Doyle’s 56 Sherlock Holmes short [...]

Holmes’s skills: cryptography

One of the Holmes’s skills is cryptography. Cryptography is the science that studies how to decipher encoded messages as well as how to codify them. This is an activity as old as intelligence services. Most of the ciphers are build by mathematicians or  people very skilled at mathematics.
Holmes is also a competent cryptanalyst. He relates [...]

Watson’s Niece

Good morning pupils.
This is Holmes. Doctor Watson is always telling histories about me. Probably I don’t deserve so much attention, though my remarkable services have became notorious. Today, I’m going to propose a simple puzzle. It only requires a little bit of wit and, in addition, the main character is Doctor Watson.
Doctor Watson was telling [...]

Sherlock Holmes and women

Irene Adler
The only woman in whom Holmes ever showed any interest simmilar to romantic one was Irene Adler. According to Watson, Holmes always referred to her as “The Woman” . Holmes himself is never directly quoted as using this term — though he does mention her actual name several times in other cases.

 Gayle Hunnicut as Irene Adler in [...]

The Dark Dungeon

Good morning pupils.
Doctor Watson is still having breakfast so I have decided telling you my last adventure by myself.
I was being held prisoner in a dark dungeon by the evil Professor Moriarty. I found 64 candle stubs lying on the dungeon floor. I could make one full candle from four stubs, and one candle woud burn [...]

Solution to Lord Cavell and ‘his disturbing events’ and to your doubts

The order in which the items were stolen was:

First: gold lighter

Second: watch chain

Third: cuff links

Fourth: cigar box

Fifth: diamond tie pin

Thanks for your comments, my dear pupils.
Thanks for your comment Oldtimer. In Spanish this word means veterano, which has similar root to the English word veteran.
 
Doubts on vocabulary 
 
Mateo ‘trying to avoid’ means ‘intentando evitar’, thanks for [...]

The complete stories on Sherlock Holmes

 
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is the creator of the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes, protagonist of the famous serie of histories that began with ‘A Study in Scarlet’ (1887). But  the Scottish writer was also the author of scientific fiction stories and  historic romances as well as a master in short stories.
 

Cover of the first edition [...]

Sherlock Holmes in action

This is a video of a fight scene from “The Solitary Cyclist” starring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes and David Burke as Dr. Watson.

Do you understand anything?
If you do, please write what you understand.

Sherlock Holmes

 

Taken from wikimedia

 
Introduction 
Sherlock Holmes is the main characterof a series of4 novels y 56 ficction stories, gathered in which is named the Sherlockian Canon. They were published, in their majority, in The Strand Magazine. He is the creation of Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887 .
Sherlock Holmes is the prototype of brain detective by excellence. The character influenced toposterior detectives creations. Although we can consider to  C. August Dupin, created by Edgar [...]