The Sherlockians! discussion

Out of all the 56 short stories in the Canon, you're bound to have a favorite. What did you like about it?
And what is your LEAST favorite story?

in the Canon? what's that? All his short stories?

It's all the novels and short stories.

Oh. My favorite, so far, I think is The Adventure of the Speckled Band.

My least favorite is IDK

The Speckeled Band was really good, but there was one minor plot gap- snakes can't hear, so how could the snake come at the ring of the bell?

? I never thought of that. It's a good story anyway.

Havev you real the Final Problem yet?

Nope! Wait... is that in the Memoirs?

Yes. It's the one where he meets..... wait, I shouldn't tell you....

XXXXXX meets XXXXXXXX and XXXXXXXXX tells him about how he met XXXXXXX so they have to go and XXXXXXXXXXX to XXXXXXXXXXX and to a XXXXXXXXXXX but then XXXXXX has to leave because of a XXXXXXX emergency and XXXXXX is left alone with XXXXXXXX and gets XXXXXX XXX a XXXXX with XXXXXXXX.

Yeah I read that one. I cried SO hard!!!

But I couldn't understand all that you said there! :'(

Well, there's another short story that goes with it.
(So you did read it?)

The one you should read after that called The Adventure of the Empty House. It's about everything that happens three years later!!!

I did read it. I read The Adventure of the Empty House too.

OH- Well, those two are awesome!

I think my least favorite were the Red Headed League and The Man with the Twisted lip

The Red Headed League was so weird!

I still don't get how he figured it out.

I read that one a while ago... I can't remember the solution very well. I'd go look it up in my COMPLETE SHERLOCK HOLMES COLLECTION WITH ALL 356 ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS but my friend is borrowing it. :(

(view spoiler)[ OK, so the guy named Wilson, who owns a pawn shop, was told by his secretary, Vincent, about a vacancy in the Red Headed League, which was a job for gingers only, and there were millions of red heads applying for the job and he gets it. He copies the one encyclopedia thing for 4 pounds a week. Sherlock asks some questions about Vincent. Then Holmes and Watson go somewhere and ask for directions at his house. Holmes beats his stick (whatever it is) against the sidewalk and he got the answer. It confused me. (hide spoiler)]

Yeah, I remembered it up to the point where he copies the encyclopedia :)

:) wasn't that a long spoiler?

YES

:D

Have you read any Holmes stories not by Arthur Conan Doyle? I definitely reccomend The Beekeeper's Apprentice.

Who's it by?

Laurie R. King

Alright! I'll get it sometime

My favorite was the Beryl Coronet (i think the only reason I liked it was because it was my first one) and I don't think I had a least favorite.

I don't really have least favorites, either, but I get really annoyed when the story is hard to follow.

Yeah that's true. There was one that I read three times this morning before I understood what it was talking about.

Have you read A Study in Scarlet? The first part of it is really simple, but the second part is confusing because it's just about the murderer's past.

I haven't read it yet....what book is it in (if that makes sense)?

Actually, it's not a short story. It's the first book and it's a full-length novel. Watson first meets Holmes in it!

Ah ok that sounds really cool. I'll be sure to read it.

Some one please tell me that there are more stories after The Final Problem, because I just read that and I'm about to cry. It was so sad!

There are. I promise. Read The Return of Sherlock holmes.

Ok yay! thanks!

The Empty House from the Return of SH is one of my absolute favorites!

Same here

Metting Holmes brother..

I like The Musgrave Ritual, Silver Blaze, Norwood builder and Greek Interpreter. But Adventure of Abbey Grange is my absolute favourite.
But nothing beats The valley of Fear, it's just so amazing.
In the Red Headed League, he figures out because
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When he beats his stick, the sound and the vibration indicated that there's a tunnel running underground.
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My favorite is probably the Five Orange Pips where he delivers sweet vengeance for a murdered client against the Klan.

Hard to single out one - I think "The Illustrious Client" is a wonderful example of a Victorian sensation story. I love the ending of "The Yellow Face", even though historians might quibble with the soundness of the narrative.
I like the Blue Carbuncle as a story, and also because I think it was the best of the Jeremy Brett/David Burke episodes.
I like the ones that have a connection to Doyle's world. "The Noble Bachelor" was inspired by the real life marriages between cash poor titles and rich American heiresses - and nobles who hooked up with chorines, and Charles Augustus Milverton has a great villain, inspired by the real-life rascal Charles Augustus Howell.

Two I liked - The Copper Beeches and The Sussex Vampire. Both of them involve a really creepy child - the Rucastle boy and in Vampire, Ferguson's son by his first marriage, who is named 'Jack' - a real sociopath. I know the story was one of the later ones, but I always imagine Jack Ferguson was Jack the Ripper.

I put up this link on Baker Street Irregulars - its an interview with Jeremy Brett I just found - a really long one. In it, one of the things he talks about is filming the Final Problem episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCeA5...