HW#117

Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arther Conan Doyle is a intersting book. the story takes place in cities. The main charcters are Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Waston.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Waston were always solving cases Dr. Waston was Sherlock Holmes right hand man. They shared rooms together. Soon after those years Dr. Waston got married and tured those cases into adventures. Soon Waston's wife dies. Waston was walking by London when he saw he was on Baker Street. The date was March 20, 1888. He looked up and he saw Holmes on the second floor window working hard on a case. Dr. Waston went upstairs to say Hi to Holmes. A stanger came to the house and gave Holmes and Waston a case so they start off to investgate.

At the end of this case took a long time Holmes thought he solved the case but then he saw a letter that was for him. Fooled by Mrs. Irene Norton. Sherlock Holmes is hired by a retired art supply dealer fromLewisham, Josiah Amberley, to look into his wife’s disapearance. She has left with a neighbour. Holmes is too busy with another case at the time. So he sent Waston to see want is going on. Waston followed Josiah's daughter and found somthing and tooled Sherlock Holmes. Amberley’s alibi fell apart when Holmes discovered that his seat at theHaymarket Theatre had not been busy on the night in question, its number went down from the ticket that Watson had seen. Also, the painting was a clue. Holmes realizd that it was being done to mask a smell, and he soon discovered what that was gas. He found a gas pipe leading into the strongroom with a tap outside. Amberley had lured his wife and her lover for so he had believed Dr. Ernest to be — into the strongroom, locked them in, and turned the gas on, killing them out of jealousy. He had simply hidden the “stolen” valuables somewhere. In indelible can not erase pencil, one of the victims wrote “We we”,meaning to write “We were murdered.”