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I always thought Mary Sutherland's problem, in "A Case of Identity" was pretty obvious - certainly to Holmes.
Lion's Mane suffers from the absence of Watson as narrator. It's Watson holding Holmes at arm's length from the reader that sustains the mystery.
in the lion.s mane i could not understand why the victim was dressed...and then explained shock made him dress himself!
Barbara wrote: "I always thought Mary Sutherland's problem, in "A Case of Identity" was pretty obvious - certainly to Holmes."no i did not guess that!
There's always The Veiled Lodger - not that it was easy to guess, but where Holmes pretty much didn't have to do anything because there was nothing really to solve. He does dispute Watson's theory about how the animal got out, but his involvement is pretty much limited to listening to Mrs. Ronder's story.
that is correct..and it showed the empathy of holmes toward the veiled woman!
It occurs to me that The Second Stain ought to be obvious. If only Hope and his wife had access to the dispatch box then the only people who could have taken the letter would be Hope or his wife.Figuring out the why, and where the letter was and how to retrieve it were difficulties, but it should be obvious who took it.
In the Adventure of the Devil's Foot, the condition of the victims was so outré that, given Conan Doyle strictly forbid admittance of the super-normal into Holmes's universe, no other explanation than a psychoactive drug was conceivable. I knew what happened (though of course not why, or by whom) the first time I read the description of the Tregennis family.
In the Adventure of the Lion's Mane, excruciating skin lesions received by sea bathers immediately suggested a marine creature of some sort, probably a jellyfish, though I'd never heard of Cyanea capillata at the time. In fact, I wonder somewhat that Conan Doyle considered this situation novel enough to write a murder mystery around. I suppose that it only seems obvious in our age of nature documentaries, internet, and jet-facilitated vacation travel to the tropics. It might have been rather less obvious to the nineteenth century Londoner.