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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Jerry said: " According to Sherlock Holmes, “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” In other words, people should not jump to conclusions if they know noth According to Sherlock Holmes, “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” In other words, people should not jump to conclusions if they know nothing. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is a fictional novel depicting Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, very good friends, during their investigations of various cases. Sherlock Holmes is a brilliant investigator and is excellent at deductions based on facts. In these cases, Sherlock Holmes is the detective and Dr. Watson is the helper. Overall, Sherlock Holmes is an intelligent crime solver that is fascinating to read about.
I would give this book 5 stars because Sherlock Holmes is a brilliant character. When Sherlock Holmes is figuring out the case of the broken coronet, he states, “It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Unlike Sherlock Holmes, an ordinary person would be very unlikely to believe a improbable theory of a crime, even when all the other theories have been ruled out. Sherlock Holmes uses this process of elimination which helps him to solve cases in the same way that it can also help students to perform well on tests. For example, from a single hat, Holmes can rule out many suspects. His powers of deduction help him to gain many facts about the culprit of the crime from one piece of evidence. What is amazing about this is that Sherlock Holmes can solve mysteries much faster than anybody else. During the case of A Scandal in Bohemia, Sherlock Holmes states, “Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” Doyle demonstrates the way that Sherlock Holmes is always able to keep an open mind, rather than the way that some investigators produce a theory that they think must be the truth, and will not change it no matter the facts, Sherlock Holmes can remain willing to pursue all possibilities. In this way, the author makes Sherlock Holmes a believably intelligent character who is exciting to read about.
Ultimately, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes can entertain all ages because the older readers can use their minds to solve the crimes along with Sherlock Holmes and younger readers can simply be entertained. Maybe more cases could be solved in the world if detectives learned from Sherlock Holmes’ methods. ...more "

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