"When you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Okay so I MAY have made a slight doo-doo since I mixed up A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four. Oops! My apologies. In my defense ... well, there isn't a good one really. But that said and done, what would ANY fall read-a-ton be without a look at the classic sleuth in Victorian London? Sherlock Holmes has held the hearts of people around the world since his very first appearance, and the recent dive into stories about the fictional Enola Holmes have reinvigorated public interest. If you're waiting for cute teenagers running amok in London, however, be warned: the OG Holmes stories are NOT for the faint-hearted, especially not with epic riverboat scenes like in this one! Arthur Conan Doyle knew his stuff.
As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman - Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl. Now she has had an intriguing invitation to meet her unknown benefactor and urges Holmes and Watson to accompany her. And in the ensuing investigation - which involves a wronged woman, a stolen hoard of Indian treasure, a wooden-legged ruffian, a helpful dog and a love affair - even the jaded Holmes is moved to exclaim, 'Isn't it gorgeous!'
(from book jacket)
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*image not mine
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