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* * * My first visit to Mr. Sherlock Holmes * * *
Aug 13, 2007 12:15 AM 4140 Views

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Fear is our friendly emotion which helps us to run away from dangers which we are not confident to face. The only place fear can survive is our mind. In fact it is a positive emotion or a protective emotion, which only can be cured by knowledge and courage as fear itself is the product of lack of knowledge and courage to go beyond. Still there are some forces which will take a toll on our soul…right? Here we go to a story which keeps you in the thorn of enthusiasm, at the same time in occasions bring the fear factor too. "…sudden, bloody & mysterious. Yet may we shelter ourselves in the infinite goodness of Providence, which would not forever punish the innocent beyond that third or fourth generation which is threatened in Holy Writ." I can see the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle making use of the deep rooted believes to make the book a success with the hound element in it. Here is my take on my first reading of Sherlock Holmes, the most famous detective character ever created.


Sir Charles Bhaskerville who possesses huge ancestral wealth died in mysterious conditions. It has been told that it is the curse on the Bhaskerville family that those who own the house will be killed by a hound (which has fire in its eyes and mouth). Indeed the hound is taking its revenge on the brutal killing of a lady by one of the ancestors. Sir Henry, the next owner of the huge wealth is arrived from Canada and eager to solve the mystery of the death like the family doctor since it throws the life of Sir Henry too at risk. Sherlock Holms along with Watson, his close associate take up the challenge to bring down the mystery behind the death and the hound.


I always admired the talent of good investigators and their ability to connect the links together. I am a person who tries to link things in as many ways as possible if I really intend to and my curiosity to know the typical style of the famous detective is a foregone conclusion. While reading, I noticed the way Sir Arthur have narrated the ability of Sherlock Holmes. The author used Watson as an average investigator and allow Sherlock holmes to close the net. In the beginning chapter itself Sir Arthur gave the importance of detailed analysis. Let me share few of the views I found interesting from the book, about the qualities of a good detective, the way the logic goes…


"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes….My body has remained in this armchair and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco."


"My eyes have been trained to examine faces and not their trimmings. It is the first quality of a criminal investigator that he should see through a disguise."


"The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it."


"Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions."


I am really amazed by the ability of the writer to picturise situations with emotions filled in it, but at the same time he explain it with limited words, a quality I would love to receive on any given day!


Look at the way Sir Arthur tell how an unmitigated scoundrel for whom there was neither pity nor excuse is born in a society in minimum of words!!! "We humbled him too much when he was a lad and gave him his own way in everything until he came to think that the world was made for his pleasure, and that he could do what he liked in it. Then as he grew older he met wicked companions, and the devil entered into him until he broke my mother's heart and dragged our name in the dirt." When the criminal is been killed, let us see how the author describe about it through two simple sentences which also throw answer for a query. "To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little willful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him"


A lady's emotion where she has been betrayed by her husband…"It is my mind and soul that he has tortured and defiled. I could endure it all, ill-usage, solitude, a life of deception, everything, as long as I could still cling to the hope that I had his love, but now I know that in this also I have been his dupe and his tool." She broke into passionate sobbing as she spoke portrayed in fewer words too.


"…I will take my own steps to attain my own end", "I am certainly developing the wisdom of the serpant". "Incredulity and indifference were evidently my strongest cards" The writer peep into the mind of Watson to give the writing the required soul.


The author is one who have vision of his own is not to mention. Let me quote few from the book to make you believe it.


"We must see what further cards we have in our hands and play them with decision."


"There is a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words."


"It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it."


I have small doubts on the reliability on few points mentioned by Sir Arthur, 1. The 1742 manuscript and its use in 1884, fooling generations and killing many. The culprit at end don't had any such earlier intentions. If that is a new creation, even Sir Charles would have thrown it away since he knows the history. 2. Mrs Stapletons, if she really wished to convey the warning, she had many ways, including handing over or even posting letters without any name on it even. Otherwise the suspense was fool proof and the writer closed the nets too brilliantly. The final chapters are written in extremely brilliant way so much so that he draws a picture with each paragraph which is intended to create some scary weather and situation to keep the chill in your loneliness. The mire, the fog, the hound, the death, blood, quest to survive, urge to escape…the book is a very good read. The book which only has 156 pages but unfold a good story with sufficient details. The book is referred to all, without doubt. Let me end the review with another quote from the book. "I fear that you ask too much when you expect me to solve it. The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer".


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