Publisher's Synopsis
Annotations Indeed, as I thought, it has been a quick and easy to read book. Of course, entertaining and enjoyable. At a time when people were accustomed to serialized literature, Arthur Conan Doyle, began to publish these short stories about Sherlock Holmes adventures and was so welcomed by the public, who wrote dozens of them. In this book 5 of them are collected: The empty house, The mystery of Lower Norwood, The puppets, A family drama and Peter the Black, so I will make a brief review of each of them. Although they are independent stories, they have correlation in time, so that what happens in any of them, can affect the frame of the others, for example, in the empty house, the narrative begins having Mr. Holmes died in an ambush suffered in a previous book. After putting yourself in antecedents, this adventure begins. Of course, as you will imagine, he has not died: It is only a stratagem to defeat his enemies. In The Mystery of Lower Norwood, he has to prove the innocence of a man accused of murder, when all the evidence points to him. The monks is a story in which he tests his ability to decipher indecipherable messages (of course, using unique media, by him invented and collected in a treaty that he published) In A family drama, the entanglement at first resists him, but his perseverance and intuition makes him finally solve the crime. And, finally, Pedro the Negro, is an adventure story, "Holmes classic." From the beginning he is clear about what he has to do, of course leaving aside any police discovery, which is never worth anything. All the Sherlock Holmes stories have a similar pattern. The adventures are told by the doctor, a companion inseparable from Holmes's adventures, although his participation in them is limited to a secondary performance, always under the dictates of the detective, always admiring him, always revealing the superiority of Sherlock over Watson himself and over the rest of the world, always trying to protect you from possible dangers.