Sherlock Holmes vs. Watson: The Sign of Twenty-four

If Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of all times, and Dr. Watson, the best ever companion and biographer, then it is the story of greatest betrayal in the history of mankind. This is not the good doctor's missing manuscript that has miraculously been found hidden inside an old, crumbling Japanese cabinet. It is also not the one that has magically been discovered and published to entertain the ever-enthusiastic public during their long vacation. And, it is certainly not that remarkable account which Dr. Watson wrote, but fearing public scandal, locked away with strict instructions to not open it before a hundred years of his death. It is a chronicle that has passed from generation to generation in my family and is far more bewildering and perplexing than any of the popular adventures of Sherlock Holmes, in which Dr. Watson made his plain methods of investigation, appear as complicated deductions.

The doctor's inclination towards romanticism created the first-class detective out of Sherlock Holmes, and the same in my nature is about to modify that reputation to a scandalous extent. Here I am, to highlight those flaws in his extraordinary methods, exploiting which, one man broke through his concrete defence, baffled his superior mind, and laid waste to his excellent reputation. While the famous detective, as they say, unarguably the best there has ever been, watched the culprits fall in his well-laid traps, and tracked criminals from trifles, little did it appear to his brilliant mind that the watcher can be watched, and tracker can be tracked too.

Believe me to be, sirs and madams,
Faithfully yours
The Man of the 12th

Sherlock Holmes vs. Watson: The Sign of Twenty-Four

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