Sherlock Holmes as a detective knows things about his clients before they reveal such information to him. In “The Speckled Band” Sherlock Holmes says to Helen Stoner “You have come in by train this morning, I see”. Helen Stoner says “You know me, then?” “No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm of your left glove”. This is one of Conan Doyle ways of shocking the reader as it gives the reader something to learn in which he/she might use later in their life, and maybe help the reader solve one of their life matters. The author brings up many clues and mystery solution in “The Speckled Band” while Sherlock Holmes is in Helen Stoner home he and Dr Watson closes examine the house, “It looks newer than the other things?”, “Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago.” Holmes sees a bell and finds out that is it farley new from the other furniture’s in the room. Holmes sees a ventilate in Helen Stoner sister room and a bell rope which we have already talked about, which he thinks is a very interesting change to the room which has been made. “Yes, there were several little changes carries out about that time.” “They seems to have been of a most interesting character-dummy bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate.” This makes the audience think that something is not really right and makes them read on. Sherlock Holmes brings out all little clues which are all being told throughout the story but have no meaning until the end where they all add up to one big mystery which is solved.
When the reader reads “The Speckled Band”, the language used to describe the area is in very detail. Conan Doyle targets this to the audience because it gives them a clear and more defined atmosphere of the story which gets them involved more. Helen Stoner describes the house “The manor house is, as I have already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms being in the central block of the buildings.” “Of these bedrooms, the first is Dr. Roylott’s, the second my sister’s and the third my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open out into the same corridor”. “The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn”. Conan Doyle’s description of the house it so in detail it draws the reader in to that position. Another part where Conan Doyle’s drags the reader in is when Sherlock Holmes narrates the rooms himself. “It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country houses. A brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow white-counterpaned bed in another and a dressing-table on the left-hand side of the window.”
When the audience are reading the stories they notice that Sherlock Holmes reactions are very sudden, “Finally he walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it, and in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug” “Why, it’s a dummy,” said he. “Won’t it ring? “ “No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting”. Conan Doyle’s interrupt this in the characters so it lives up the story, which makes the reader jump.
Mostly which interests the audience are Holmes detective methods. “What’s in here?“ he asked, tapping the safe. “My stepfather’s business papers.” “Oh! You have seen inside then?” “Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of papers” “There isn’t a cat in it, for example?” No. What a strange idea!” “Well, look at this!” He took up a small saucer of milk which stood on the top of it. “No; we don’t keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon.” Sherlock Holmes in “The Speckled Band” likes to be in the spot rather then working with the spot he likes to get in the heart of the crime and find the mysteries key. “In the first place, both my friends and I must spend the night in your room.” He said this to Helen Stoner. Conan Doyle like to introduction the audience as a part of the crime as if he/she was Sherlock Holmes, it gives then a clear understanding if the clues and the methods which are being used.
Many readers enjoy matching their wits against Sherlock Holmes, trying to see if they can solve the mystery along with him. This is usually a task doomed to failure because of the first-person narrative style, in which the detective's less-intelligent friend Watson tells the story and is as amazed as any reader when the detective reveals his solution.' "The Red-Headed League," like Doyle's other detective stories, presents a detailed portrait of turn-of-the-century London and gives readers glimpses of a society undergoing rapid change. Among these changes are alterations in the class structure, Britain's rise as a world economic power, and urban growth—along with a rising crime rate. As he attempts to restore a social order threatened by criminals like those in "The Red-Headed League," Sherlock Holmes embodies the values of intelligence and individual achievement.
Readers still are interested in Conan Doyle’s stories; in “The Red-Headed League” this story is a mystery narrative which pulls up many clues and solutions which draw the reader attention. The opening of “The Red-Headed League” is told by Watson, Holmes’s colleague. The story hooks the audience as it is told by a person who has already accounted the crime and is unique i.e. Red Headed man. When reading the story clues which are brought up my Sherlock Holmes maybe also relate to the reader, this is why some stories had been so popular. As this story morals it to do with a bank robbery, in the days in which stories of this kind were written road would not have changed as much. Readers would learn from these stories. When Sherlock Holmes describes the clues for such crimes, e.g. “I am sure that you inquired your way merely in order that you might see him.” “Not him.” “What then?” “The knees of his trousers.” “And what did you see?” “What I expected to see.” This is said at the start of the story, “His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have remarked how worn, wrinkled and stained they were. They spoke of those hours of burrowing” This was later said when the crime was solved. It tells the reader in which every little point Conan Doyle write will always add up in the end.
The way Conan Doyle builds up the language is gradual and the action of climax is quite fine. When Sherlock Holmes things that he has found some clues he reviles only part of it. This is a mystify way of Conan Doyle’s to tease the audience. When Sherlock Holmes found a way of catching the villain in “The Red-Headed League” he used a plan of his own which in lighted the audience. The language used is quite formal and when the plan took place he was the main part. After the villain is caught at the end he tells Watson why and how he solved the crime. At this point the audience knows if they have beaten Holmes or if he has beaten them.
As the crime story has already involved a person old at age, which has a small business and lives with a young man and women, young man wanting to work for half the wage ages. Thinking more into this matter, Conan Doyle’s I say sometimes plays tricks on the reader he teases them which make the audience think e.g. a young man who can get far more better pay is willing to work for half the pay, he must have something else in his benefits. As I said before in “The Speckled Band” Sherlock Holmes know information’s about his clients when he seems them in person. This is the slyest way which the readers can learn about the person which they wish. This only would have been a great seller or has made Conan Doyle’s stories so popular. “How, in the name of good fortune, did you know all that, Mr. Holmes? he asked. How did you know, for example, that I did manual labour? It’s as true as gospel, and I began as a ship’s carpenter.” “Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger that your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more developed.” When the reader reads this it tells him something to look out for later in his daily life, which could help him solve his disputes.
The last story which I will examine I think is an excellent story which is called “A Scandal In Bohemia”. It is a story which is narrated by Dr Watson himself, Sherlock Holmes colleague, King, Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes itself. As I have mentions before on both the stories above, Conan Doyle always likes to be ahead with Sherlock Holmes, even with Dr Watson. “It is simplicity itself,” said he; “my eyes tell me that on the inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they have been caused by some one who has very carelessly scraped round the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting specimen of the London slavey.” In the all the stories which I have talked about Sherlock Holmes he always had something to say at the start of the story which interests the reader; this is what pulls the audiences in. I’m guessing every story that Conan Doyle has wrote it written like this, this has told me that in every story you are bound to learn something new.
In the story “A Scandal In Bohemia” Sherlock Holmes is defeated by a women who he underestimate this pulls the reader in which gives him/her a surprise when Holmes is beaten to the crime not by the audience but by a women who he things is more cleaver that himself. Throughout the play Holmes and Dr Watson plan this method of which we believe will work and dose to certain extend. Holmes and Watson proceed with the plan and all goes well, at the end Watson asks Holmes how he new this would happened. At every story Holmes tell the audience how he solved his crime. “How did that help you?” “It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have more than once taken advantage of it.” This tells the reader that Holmes is a very cleaver man as it did to me when reading the story. But what the audience do not know is that the villain more even more cleaver. At the end of the story Irene Alder the villain overpowers Holmes, “My Dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, You did is very well…I leave a photograph which he might care to possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, very truly yours, “Irene Norton, nee Adler.” This method of which Conan Doyle has used towards Sherlock Holmes really does shock the audience, maybe because woman were under classed which this story was written.
The way Holmes plays tricks on Irene Adler failures to work, Conan Doyle uses Sherlock Holmes to throw him in the center of the sense. Which puts Sherlock Holmes down in front of the audience plus when he gets defeated by a women, this pulls the audience more into the story. In the story the scene of the live action really pulls the story together it makes the story move fast which really engaged the audiences into Conan Doyle’s narratives.
All in all I thing that Conan Doyle’ stories have been popular to people due to the effect it has on people. As when I have been reading these stories to answer my question, I have found out that these stories that Conan Doyle has something to learn from them every time a story is read. As these stories were written in the 1800s times were different to now, Conan Doyle’s language used is very formal, and where by there is no informal language used. In every story I have read Sherlock Holmes always like to be in the lead of his clients, he finds out information on his clients by glancing at them in detail. When most stories are told they are told by Dr Watson who is a colleague of Sherlock Holmes, this also makes the audience more into the story, rather than being told the problem they are brought into it. I have come across that Conan Doyle’s has been popular because he has come up with many good stories which could appeal to people in real life and help them solve life’s problem.
