![]() I feel that he as author neither condemns nor promotes racism, and that’s okay with me.Ī Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four have only strengthened my Holmes-crush, and I can’t wait to read the rest of the stories. The British imperialism and domination is a fact of history, and the way Doyle describes Watson’s thoughts and conversations with others is just that – a truthful description of how people thought back then. Where I was terribly annoyed by the superiority the white Crusoe claimed over the black Friday in Robinson Crusoe, I wasn’t that much bothered by this particular instance. There is heavier racism in The Sign of Four, where a certain tribe of people is painted as less than human and savage. He doesn’t paint the leaders in a good light, but the average Mormon is just human, and they are helpful people. Just because you disagree with the way they live doesn’t mean you’re evil. There is no rule that books should always be ideologically neutral. He for example writes about Mormons, condemning the way they have multiple wives – but to be honest I fully see this to be within his right. Yes, there is some, although I’d like to disagree on the severity of it. Some people have remarked upon the racism in Doyle’s books (and anti-Mormonism in A Study of Scarlet). This didn’t make the book less enjoyable for me though. The writing in A Study of Scarlet is a bit clunky at times, and there are some continuity errors in The Sign of Four. But just for a few hours, isn’t it fun to pretend that it could? Holmes could never exist, neither could his methods. They complete each other in a way that most detective duo’s can only dream of. ![]() This eccentric man is balanced out by doctor Watson, that is cool but engaged, that grounds Holmes in reality. I love how he is always addicted to one thing or another, and that he well, not so very mentally stable. I love his crazy logic deductions, the way he almost deus-ex-machina-y comes to his solutions. I won’t go into the plots here, as it is quite hard to talk about them without giving any spoilerish information away. In these we find out how Holmes and Watson meet, and they solve two mysteries. I read the Collector’s Library edition which combined the first two Sherlock Holmes novellas, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four. I am an unapologetic Sherlock Holmes fan, yet it took me this long to read the source of my admiration: Arthur Conan Doyle’s books. I’d recommend this book for all fiction readers-unless you’re a Mormon with anger issues, then you might want to just pass.Title: A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four Arthur Conan Doyle wove fascinating tales. There’s a reason Holmes was such a popular character. Though, I found the adventure in Utah to be particularly edge-of-the-seat. It seems like it would be an odd way to tell such a story, in two disparate parts, but both parts of the story are well-told and gripping. That intrigue is eventually tied up by Holmes at the end of the second part. While she falls for a non-Mormon hunter, the polygamous Mormon’s face a situation in which the demand for wives far outstrips supply. The man and the girl go on to live with the Mormons, if uneasily. The two are the sole survivors of a Donner Party-style ill-fated wagon train through the Rockies. Part II begins with a man and a little girl being rescued by a caravan of Mormons. Part I is as one would expect of a Holmes’ story in setting and characters, the second part is out of the ordinary but none-the-less fascinating. Watson–who becomes Holmes’s roommate and who soon becomes fascinated by the work of the world’s first consulting detective. Because, it’s the first story, there’s also the meeting of Holmes and Dr. It’s not clear whether the two killings are connected but the two men were associates and so it’s a likely conclusion-though the victims’ manner of death is quite different. The first part of the novel describes a mysterious murder that happens in London and whose victim displays a gruesome death mask. This is the first book of the Sherlock Holmes canon, and is also the first Holmes novel (most of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories are short stories published in collections. Get Speechify to make any book an audiobook. There are actually two stories told in the novel. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page. This is the first book of the Sherlock Holmes canon, and is also the first Holmes novel (most of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories are short stories published in collections.) The book was first published in 1887. Get Speechify to make any book an audiobook
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