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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a famous mystery writer from the 19th century. He was most famous for his creation of the all time popular Sherlock Holmes, but also did many other stories. Short stories often conclude decisively at the end and have only a few characters, characteristics and descriptions are kept simple e.g. in the “Adventure of the Engineers Thumb” “the fat man”. This description is short and concise as details of characters are minimalistic. Mystery stories often have a detective who solves the crime before the police, much like Holmes does. However in mystery stories the criminal is brought to justice, but Holmes being so unorthodox says is “commuting a felony” as he exchanged one crime for another as punishing criminals is not as important to h due to his impunities. This is due to the pleasure brought to him by solving mysteries and not bothered about crime or the police.

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In both stories Watson, Holmes close friend and companion narrates the stories. An example expressing this could be “I called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes” showing he is a close friend to Holmes and thus expresses Holmes characteristics from an upwards view. Having Watson as the narrators allows him not to be boastful towards Holmes, but as he is himself it makes Holmes seem even more remarkable as he looks up to him. Also having Watson narrate we don’t know what will happen next as Holmes ruminations are not shown t us we can not come to inferences on ...

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