Analysis of the book named The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1859-1930

Kimmo Huosionmaa

I sometimes wonder, why Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle (1859-1930) wrote the fictional book or novel series “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”. There is a portrait of Victorian detective, who just concludes who is guilty of some crimes. By the way, all other stories of that book are murder cases, only two novels make difference about that kind thing. Those stories are  “The scandal in Bohemia” and “The red-headed league”, where criminals will make operations for stealing important things. And in the first story, Holmes can’t catch the thief. By the way, this master detective ever catches thieves. They all will slip away. But this man is very tough for murderers he catches them all.


 There are other stories about thieves in that book, and in all thief stories will those criminals slip off, but Holmes catches all murderers.  But after “The Red-headed league” will those stories change to the darker side, and the crime what is under investigation is a murder, what is made by the most intelligent and cold-blooded murdered.  When we are looking or reading the tales of Sherlock Holmes, we might see a painting in this master detectives wall.


That painting is a portrait of one waterfall in the Switzerland, and in the end of first part of that book, will the master detective fall into that waterfall by the hand of the leader of London underworld professor Moriarty. That painting is the very important thing in that Victorian detective tale because it is mentioned in many novels in that book. But why that possible quite cheap picture is so huge thing in that man’s life? Does it show the place for that man, where he can set up his death?


When we are thinking about the text, what has been written by Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle, we must recognize that this master detective Sherlock Holmes knows very many things about London underworld. How does he know that somebody who stands at the opposite of street is a killer? The detective of those stories is very strange because he doesn’t use any more technical instruments than his famous magnifier. But in those stories is very much strange details, what are the “I” portrait of that book.


Dr. Watson who just walk behind Holmes and tries to follow his thinking.  He also lives with that master detective, so somebody thinks, that this thing in that book was meant insinuation of the homosexual relationship between those men. When we are thinking about that particular painting, I sometimes think that if that picture was a proof that Mr. Sherlock Holmes was a member of some kind of network. If Conan-Doyle wrote about memberships of secret societies, he must hide his message to other text.



So if that man wanted to hide something, what he also wanted to publish, he would write just like he did in his detective stories masterpieces. But the waterfalls of  Reichenbach can’t become from Conan-Doyle’s imaginations. So why that man chose the death place of Professor Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes those waterfalls in Switzerland.


Why didn't he chose the death place to Victoria Falls or Niagara Falls? And even if Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle returned his detective back to life in his next novels? How many times a writer has served his readers so god, that he returns his or her portrait or main character back to life? Why he continued his work with that character, even if he was boring to write stories about him? Was he so good customer server, that he asked his readers or "fans"  what they want to read by him?


So I think that some parts of this detective stories are made for money. and the writer took a price for those stories.  I mean that they must be written for some purpose if somebody paid Conan-Doyle about those works, that person must be a very big fan of that writer, and I understand that those texts, what Conan-Doyle sent to The Strand Magazine were open for the people but did Conan-Doyle sent his first stories to that newspaper accidentally, and did he ever going to publish those stories? But was those stories mentioned to be faked police reports, or why Conan-Doyle wrote those novels, what pleasure us even today? That is the very good question when we analyze that brilliant book of Detective Sherlock Holmes from the Victorian age when skirts were long and men wear silk hats when they will go to walk.