![]() ![]() ![]() Please don’t take this the wrong way, but you saying that you struggle to read the stories might mean they aren’t for you. Some of the highly regarded short stories from “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” include “Scandal in Bohemia,” “Red-Headed League,” “The Speckled Band,” and “The Copper Beeches.” While I also have a soft spot for “The Blue Carbuncle.” My least favorite of the collection is “A Case of Identity,” and that’s the one I recommend skipping. You don’t have to read them in a specific order. The thing about the short stories is that with the exception of “The Final Problem” and “The Empty House,” the latter of which is a sequel to the former, they are all self-contained. They can change through the course of a single story, or you can see how they change as how Doyle approaches them over the years. As Holmes and Watson don’t go through traditional development. And it’s one of most essential.Īs for development, it’s hard to describe. Irene Adler only features in “A Scandal in Bohemia,” which is the first short story. As someone else pointed out, Mycroft first appears in “The Greek Interpreter,” but also appears in “The Bruce-Partington Plans.” Moriarty, despite his status as Holmes’s arch enemy, is only in the short story “The Final Problem.” His gang features as the antagonists of “The Valley of Fear,” and Moriarty’s only interaction with Holmes in that novel is the taunting “Dear me, Mr. Most of the “major” characters in the canon like Mycroft and Moriarty are only in one or two stories. ![]()
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