The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Summary
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ScribdTranslationsThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are a collection composed of twelve
stories about different cases of criminology, narrated by Dr. Watson,
in which the participation of the detective's investigative qualities
Holmes stands out masterfully. In them, Watson, who has gotten married
during the case of 'The Sign of the Four', he no longer lives with Holmes but visits him and
lo ayuda a resolver los casos.
Originally the stories that make up The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
they had been published individually between the years of 1891 and 1892 in
an English magazine, "The Strand Magazine", a publication that promoted the
works of other great writers. Their stories are focused on the
regarding justice more than the acquisition of profits by resolving the
cases of their clients.
First Case: "Scandal in Bohemia"
The first story, or chapter, of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
"Scandal in Bohemia", 1891, where Holmes and Watson set out to solve the
case posed by a hereditary king who is threatened by a very
beautiful woman to be blackmailed during her upcoming wedding, this beautiful
a lady, named Irene Adler, possesses a photo of herself with the king, which can
to cause a scandal in his kingdom of Bohemia.
Sherlock Holmes plans how to find out where Miss Irene Adler is.
hidden the photo, the hereditary king of Bohemia has already tried several times
ways to obtain the photo without a satisfactory result. Sherlock spies on the
Miss Adler's movements, you already know she is an opera singer and that everyone
She leaves and returns home at seven, and that a man visits her.
daily.
Holmes one morning sees Ms. Adler leaving with the man who is with her.
they visit every day, both rush out in a carriage, Sherlock follows them
and sees them arriving at the church, and decides to enter pretending to be a devout parishioner.
Cristano, his surprise begins when both subjects are with the priest.
speaking and Adler's companion turns to him and asks to be the witness of
the wedding.
After Miss Irene Adler's wedding to Sir Godfrey Norton,
both withdrew down separate paths, she went to her house and Norton
Perhaps to hers, Sherlock devised a plan to get Irene to reveal to him.
where I had the photo, for this I would count on the collaboration of Dr. Watson,
how Sherlock knew what time she would arrive to simulate being
wounded, in front of the house of the now Mrs. Norton, and with that he would achieve that
she will take him into her house to lend assistance.
Watson, once Sherlock is inside Irene's house, he would throw a
an artifact that causes smoke and Holmes would shout fire, and with it he
it would reveal where she keeps the photo, because it would be one of the few objects
that she would try to safeguard. Sherlock carries out the plan the next day exactly as planned.
and learns where the photo is kept, and the next day invites the king of
Bohemia is going to rescue the photo.
The King of Bohemia would distract Mrs. Irene with some excuse and he
I would take advantage and grab the compromising photo, but arriving is what's important.
who have left London, and the housekeeper hands him an envelope with
a photo where Irene Adler is alone, and a note explaining how she
she discovered her plans, which allowed her to escape with her husband,
outside the influence of the king of Bohemia.
Irene Adler, wife of Godfrey Norton, writes to him and lets him know that she
He will keep the letter as insurance so that the King of Bohemia does nothing.
against him, and promises not to use it to cause any harm to said king, the king
he creates him and thanks Holmes by offering him a jewel as final payment,
but he keeps the photo of Irene Adler, a woman he starts to admire
for having been so smart and anticipating their steps.
Second Case 'The League of Redheads'
It is a story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes where a
lender is deceived with an easy and good job offer
paid, the redhead is named Wilson and is a somewhat poor lender
to which one of his employees encourages him to take a job that is being offered to him
The league of redheads, only for redheads, is about a simple job and
that will leave him some free time.
The lender Wilson has a premises near a bank that contains a large
gold reserve, and Holmes discovers that Wilson has been deceived into being
absent from his premises and his supposed employee, who is a cunning thief named
John Clay, make a tunnel from the moneylender's place to the bank and that way
he could steal it, but Sherlock Holmes anticipates and, along with the police, they manage to
frustrating the theft
Third Case 'A Case of Identity'
In this story, Sherlock and Watson solve the curious case of Miss.
Mary Sutherland, a young woman who receives a rather considerable fixed income and
which benefits her mother, a middle-aged woman, and her young
stepfather, James Windibank. It is about Mary's stepfather disguising himself
and assumes the identity of a certain Hosmer Ángel.
in which Sherlock and Watson solve the curious case of Miss Mary
Sutherland, a young woman who receives a considerable fixed income and from which
they benefit from their mother, a middle-aged woman, and their young stepfather,
James Windibank. It is about Mary's stepfather disguising himself and taking on the
identity of a certain Hosmer Ángel.
Fourth Case
