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I read “A Study in Scarlet” in my youth, somewhere I suspect in the mid-late 90s, but it will never be superfluous to re-read, given how much time has passed and how many screen adaptations have been since that time. You have to update the source in your head) In addition, in your youth, when teenage nonsense beats in your head, and you don’t even understand what you read, not to mention memorization, you don’t even pay attention to a lot.
In addition, there is Watson, which suddenly appeared in the 90s and against which I protested, and therefore simply could not read it)))
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Valley of Terror (collection) - here is one of the beasts of civilian appearance, where this surname was too much for me to know exactly what is right - WATSON!)) In this book I could not master even a page, I was shaking from Watson ”And I didn’t understand what was wrong with people, if it was already customary and convenient to say exactly Watson. Now maybe I would look through the book, because I’m not so stubborn with names anymore)))
Why did I start with - “I read it, but somehow I don’t remember it well” - because our film is so good that even when you read it you shift everything to the film, you remember it and since you have seen the film many times, you somehow have a primary source rubs heavily.
I never noticed that the author describes Holmes as Young man. I got so used to the image of Livanov that I was skeptical about when we decided to shoot another series (classic, without transferring to another time), where Petrenko plays Holmes. I consider it a failure that Petrenko, excuse me, is not a charismatic person, I don’t know people who would watch any film with his participation just for him. If you want to create new image Holmes, specifically for the Russian audience, and so to speak, based precisely on Doyle's description, it was worth finding a charismatic person who would be forgiven for the attempt on everyone's beloved Livany, all the more so that even the British recognized Livany as the best image of Holmes))) And then ... Well, who watched the new series? I'm here - no)
On the other hand, the original does not say “young man”, but says “student”. I understand the translator (I read the translation of 1966), who made him a “young man”, because it is more common for a Soviet person that a student is someone well, certainly up to 30, and preferably up to 25. But let’s throw in the fact that this is Great Britain and the years are very hairy, so there can be a student up to 30. It seems that it can’t be older, because somehow Watson should have reacted to the fact that the student was young no longer young)
If we continue to develop the theme of who should have been taken, then it had to be incredibly attractive, very tall, at least to create such an image, still a person who is taller than Watson, and he is six feet and much taller, given that somewhere Watson I had to stand on tiptoe to see everything. That is, the actor had to be somewhere over a meter ninety for sure. Petrenko, alas, will be exactly six feet and does not create the impression of being tall and certainly not thin at all) If you want to stick to the original source, well, stick to everything)))
There is another point that you don't pay attention to for some reason. The film gave the impression that Sherlock had known Mrs. Hudson for a long time and almost lived in her house until Watson was placed with him, although in fact, they got to know this lady together, because Sherlock had just found this accommodation , but he does not have enough money to rent it completely. How amazingly the brain is nevertheless arranged, it adds up everything as it is convenient for it, and if something doesn’t converge somewhere, it just throws it to hell so as not to get stuck on it, apparently))
By the way, who even remembers the fact that Sherlock worked in a laboratory at a hospital? I'm sure everyone thought that he was sitting at home like this all the time and was getting money only for advising the police... if at least someone remembered that he really is called a police consultant, and not just a private detective))
In general, it’s good to re-read what I have already read, I realized this when I re-read it just now " steel ring". You begin to notice what I missed in childhood for lack of a brain. Well, I looked in the wrong direction for other interests)) I am immensely glad that I reread the Etude. True, I read with Watson, this is to return to such a translation of the name of dear Watson) Now I was so carried away by the plot that Watson passed unnoticed. I suspect, and for a very long time, that a lot depends on the translator. Well, from the author, who also created it, but if the translator does not create an atmosphere, he will not convey the plot in such a way so that you bite into it with your teeth, then you will stop, on anything. On any word. I decided to read with Watson, because I knew the Soviet translation should not fail. I don’t know how Doronina’s translation is, as far as I understand, now they print more often his, but I liked mine.
Although, there amazing fact which my translator did not correct. Doyle himself forgot that he wounded Watson in the thigh, and when Sherlock explains about Afghanistan, he talks about the shoulder. Most often, Soviet translators corrected this, but then they decided not to deviate from the original)
I also note that I read in Doyle not only about Holmes, but also lost World(in childhood), and the Land of Mists, Notes of Stark Monroe (already at a conscious age and more recently). I can say that his Sherlock is more interesting than the last two mentioned books. Much more interesting, I would even advise not to read other books from him, so as not to be disappointed in the author) I will not say anything about the Lost World. As a child, I really liked it, so suddenly this book is only "up to 12"))) So you should re-read the World to understand how Doyle's adventures really look like)
And summing up a certain result, I can say for sure that in order for some love for Sherlock to arise, it is better to read it in childhood, then in adulthood there will be a lot to say goodbye to the hero. And there is something to forgive and what not to look at)))
"A study in Scarlet", in another common translation - "Red on White"(English) A Study in Scarlet listen)) is a detective story by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1887. It is in this work that Sherlock Holmes first appears. The first edition in the magazine was illustrated by David Henry Friston. The first edition as a book was illustrated by Arthur's father, Charles Doyle, and the second edition by George Hutchinson.
27-year-old Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the story in just three weeks. After a series of rejections, the story was first published by Ward and Lock in the magazine Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887. The author received £25 in exchange for all rights to the story (Doyle himself insisted on royalties). Already in the next 1888, the same publishing house released the story as a separate book, and a year later the second edition of the work was published.
Plot
Part 1. "From the memoirs of Dr. John X. Watson, a retired officer of the military medical service"
The action takes place in 1881 in Victorian London. Due to circumstances, two gentlemen settle in the same apartment - a retired military surgeon, John Watson, who was wounded in the Battle of Maiwand, and a private detective consultant Sherlock Holmes.
Watson tries to study the character of Holmes, and he amazes him both with the depth of his knowledge in highly specialized issues and with the abyss of ignorance in regard to well-known things. Holmes talks in detail about his method of solving crimes and complains that he cannot put it into practice, since there are supposedly no real criminals left in London. It was at this moment that he received news from his acquaintance from Scotland Yard Gregson about an extraordinary incident - a strange murder in an empty house ...
Part 2. "Country of Saints"
The story moves forward 30 years into the past. A group of 22 people wandered in search of better share on the Wild West. As a result, only two remain alive - a certain John Ferrier and a little orphaned girl Lucy, whom Ferrier now considers his daughter. The Mormon convoy discovers Ferrier and the girl in the desert. The travelers were tired of long wanderings without water and food and were already desperate to find a way out of their hopeless situation. Mormons promise to take the unfortunate with them to the colony if they accept the Mormon faith. Ferrier agrees, not suspecting that in many years this will lead to a drama that ended with mysterious murders in London...
1. Knowledge in the field of literature - none.
2. Philosophy - none.
3. Astronomy - none.
4. Politicians are weak.
5. Nerds are uneven. Knows the properties of belladonna, opium and poisons in general. Has no idea about gardening.
6. Geology - practical but limited. Identifies samples of different soils at a glance. After walks, she shows splashes of mud on her trousers and, by their color and consistency, determines which part of London she is from.
7. Chemistry - deep.
8. Anatomies - accurate, but unsystematic.
9. Criminal chronicle - huge, seems to know all the details of every crime committed in the nineteenth century.
10. Plays the violin well.
11. Excellent fencing with swords and espadrons, an excellent boxer.
12. Solid practical knowledge of English laws.- « A study in Scarlet»
IN further works Holmes would repeatedly refute Watson's low scores, especially in regard to philosophy, politics, and literature.
- In a conversation with Watson, Holmes criticizes the methods of work of other literary detectives - Auguste Dupin, described by Edgar Allan Poe, and the hero of the works of Emile Gaboriau Lecoq. In particular, he considers it a "cheap ostentatious trick" when Dupin followed his friend's thoughts and answered them as if they were talking. However, later, in the story "The Cardboard Box", Holmes does exactly the same thing with respect to Watson, while appealing just to Poe's story.
- One of the reviewers of the story was ... Holmes himself. In the novel "The Sign of Four" he criticized the work, the author of which in the realities of the epic is Watson.
I have seen your story. And, I must confess, I cannot congratulate you on your success. Crime investigation - exact science at least it should be. And this type of activity must be described in a strict, dispassionate manner. And you have sentiment there. It's like including a spicy love story in a discussion of Euclid's fifth postulate.<…>Something about which it was possible to remain silent, or at least observe the measure in the presentation of the facts. The only thing that deserves attention in this case is the chain of reasoning from the effect to the cause. This led to the successful completion of the case.
Plot inconsistencies
- Hope claims that after receiving a call from a street urchin at 221 B Baker Street, he went there without any suspicion. However, it was this address that appeared in Holmes's trap announcement about the discovery of the ring, and through it Hope's accomplice appeared, who eventually managed to escape from the detective.
Translations into Russian
The first edition of the novel in Russian appeared in 1898 in the December issue of the magazine "Light" under the title "Late revenge (Doyle's criminal novel)", it was translated from German by Vl. Bernasconi. Since then, more than 10 translations have been made, published under the titles “Red on White”, “Red on White”, “Crimson Trail”, “Mormons in London”, etc. The most common is the translation by Natalia Treneva, made for the collected works of Conan Doyle, published in 1966.
Later, slightly moving away from the shock, Svetodar asked Marsila if she knew what he saw. And when he heard a positive answer, his soul literally “sobbed” with tears of happiness - in this land, indeed, his mother, Golden Mary, was still alive! The very land of Occitania recreated this beautiful woman in itself - “revived” its Magdalene in stone ... It was a real creation of love ... Nature was only a loving architect.
Tears shone in my eyes... And I was absolutely not ashamed of it. I would give a lot to meet one of them alive! .. Especially Magdalene. What wondrous, ancient Magic burned in the soul of this amazing woman when she created her magical kingdom?! A kingdom in which Knowledge and Understanding ruled, and whose backbone was Love. Only not the love about which the “holy” church screamed, having worn out this wondrous word to the point that I didn’t want to hear it any longer, but that beautiful and pure, real and courageous, unique and amazing LOVE, with the name of which powers were born ... and with the name of which the ancient warriors rushed into battle ... with the name of which the new life... by whose name our world changed and became better... This Love was carried by Golden Mary. And it is this Mary that I would like to bow to... For everything that she carried, for her pure bright LIFE, for her courage and courage, and for Love.
But, unfortunately, it was impossible to do this... She lived centuries ago. And I couldn't be the one who knew her. An incredibly deep, bright sadness suddenly overwhelmed me, and bitter tears poured down in a stream...
- What are you, my friend!.. Other sorrows await you! Sever exclaimed in surprise. - Please, calm down...
He gently touched my hand and gradually the sadness disappeared. Only bitterness remained, as if I had lost something bright and dear ...
– You mustn't relax... War awaits you, Isidora.
– Tell me, Sever, was the teaching of the Cathars called the Teaching of Love because of Magdalene?
– Here you are not quite right, Isidora. The uninitiated called it the Teaching of Love. For those who understood, it carried a completely different meaning. Listen to the sound of words, Isidora: love sounds in French - amor (amour) - right? And now divide this word, separating the letter “a” from it ... It turns out a'mor (a "mort) - without death ... This is the true meaning of the teachings of Magdalene - the Teachings of the Immortals. As I told you before - everything it's simple, Isidora, if you only look and listen correctly... Well, for those who do not hear, let it remain the Teaching of Love... it is also beautiful.
I stood completely dumbfounded. The Teaching of the Immortals!.. Daaria... So that was the teaching of Radomir and Magdalena!.. The North surprised me many times, but never before had I felt so shocked!.. The Cathar teachings attracted me with their powerful, magical power, and I could not forgive myself for not talking about this with the North before.
- Tell me, Sever, is there anything left of the records of the Cathars? There must have been something left? Even if not the Perfect Ones themselves, then at least just students? I mean something about their real life and teachings?
– Unfortunately, no, Isidora. The Inquisition destroyed everything and everywhere. Her vassals, by order of the Pope, were even sent to other countries to destroy every manuscript, every remaining piece of birch bark that they could find ... We were looking for at least something, but we could not save anything.
Well, what about the people themselves? Could there be something left with people who would keep it through the centuries?
– I don’t know, Isidora... I think even if someone had some kind of record, it was changed over time. After all, it is human nature to reshape everything in its own way ... And especially without understanding. So it is unlikely that anything has been preserved as it was. It's a pity... True, we still have the diaries of Radomir and Magdalena, but that was before the creation of the Cathars. Though I don't think the doctrine has changed.
– Forgive me for my chaotic thoughts and questions, Sever. I see that I lost a lot by not coming to you. But still, I'm still alive. And while I breathe, I can still ask you, can't I? Can you tell me how Svetodar's life ended? Sorry for interrupting.
North smiled sincerely. He liked my impatience and my thirst to "find out in time". And he gladly continued.
After his return, Svetodar lived and taught in Occitania for only two years, Isidora. But these years became the most expensive and happiest years of his wandering life. His days, illuminated by the merry laughter of Beloyar, passed in his beloved Montsegur, surrounded by the Perfect, to whom Svetodar honestly and sincerely tried to convey what long years the distant Stranger taught him.
They gathered in the Temple of the Sun, which multiplied tenfold the living force. And also protected them from unwanted "guests" when someone was going to secretly enter there, not wanting to appear openly.
The Temple of the Sun was called a tower specially built in Montsegur, which at certain times of the day let direct sunlight through the window, which made the Temple truly magical at that moment. And this tower also concentrated and strengthened energy, which for the Qatari working there at that moment eased the tension and did not require too much effort.
Soon, an unforeseen and rather funny incident occurred, after which the nearest Perfects (and then the rest of the Cathars) began to call Svetodar "fiery". And it began after Svetodar, having forgotten, completely revealed his high energy Essence to them during one of the usual classes ... As you know, all the Perfect Ones without exception were seers. And the appearance of the essence of Svetodar flaming with fire caused a real shock to the Perfect Ones... Thousands of questions poured down, many of which even Svetodar himself did not have answers. Probably only the Stranger could answer, but he was inaccessible and distant. Therefore, Svetodar was forced to somehow explain himself to his friends ... Whether he succeeded or not is unknown. Only from that very day did all the Cathars begin to call him the Fiery Teacher.
(The existence of the Fiery Teacher is indeed mentioned in some modern books about cathars, only, unfortunately, not about the one that was real ... Apparently, the North was right when he said that people, not understanding, remake everything in their own way .. As they say: “they heard the ringing, but they don’t know where it is” ... For example, I found memories “ last Qatar» Deod Roche, who says that a certain Steiner (?!) was the Fiery Teacher (?!) ... Again, the people of Israel are forcibly "taken root" to the Pure and Light .... which has never been among real Qatar).
Two years have passed. Peace and tranquility reigned in the tired soul of Svetodar. Days ran after days, taking old sorrows farther and farther ... Little Beloyar seemed to grow by leaps and bounds, becoming smarter and smarter, surpassing all his older friends in this, which greatly pleased grandfather Svetodar. But on one of these happy, calm days, Svetodar suddenly felt a strange, nagging anxiety... His Gift told him that trouble was knocking on his peaceful door... Nothing seemed to change, nothing happened. But Svetodar's anxiety grew, poisoning pleasant moments of complete peace.
Once, Svetodar was walking around the neighborhood with little Beloyar (whose worldly name was Frank) not far from the cave in which almost his entire family died. The weather was wonderful - the day was sunny and warm - and Svetodar's legs themselves carried him to visit the sad cave ... Little Beloyar, as always, plucked near the growing wild flowers, and the grandfather and great-great-grandson came to bow to the place of the dead.
27-year-old Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the story in just three weeks. After a series of rejections, the story was first published by Ward and Lock in the magazine Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887. The author received £25 in exchange for all rights to the story (Doyle himself insisted on royalties). Already in the next 1888, the same publishing house released the story as a separate book, and a year later the second edition of the work was published.
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Plot
Part 1. "From the memoirs of Dr. John X. Watson, a retired officer of the military medical service"
The action takes place in 1881 in Victorian London. Due to circumstances, two gentlemen settle in one apartment - a retired military surgeon John Watson, wounded in the battle of Maiwand, and a private detective consultant Sherlock Holmes.
Watson tries to study the character of Holmes, and he amazes him both with the depth of his knowledge in highly specialized issues and with the abyss of ignorance in regard to well-known things. Holmes talks in detail about his method of solving crimes and complains that he cannot put it into practice, since there are supposedly no real criminals left in London. It was at this moment that he received news from his acquaintance from Scotland Yard Gregson about an extraordinary incident - a strange murder in an empty house ...
Part 2. "Country of Saints"
The story moves forward 30 years into the past. A group of 21 people wandered in search of a better life in the Wild West. As a result, only two remain alive - a certain John Ferrier and a little orphaned girl Lucy, whom Ferrier now considers her daughter. The Mormon convoy discovers Ferrier and the girl in the desert. The travelers were tired of long wanderings without water and food and were already desperate to find a way out of their hopeless situation. Mormons promise to take the unfortunate with them to the colony if they accept the Mormon faith. Ferrier agrees, not suspecting that in many years this will lead to a drama that ended with mysterious murders in London...
1. Knowledge in the field of literature - none.
2. Philosophy - none.
3. Astronomy - none.
4. Politicians are weak.
5. Nerds are uneven. Knows the properties of belladonna, opium and poisons in general. Has no idea about gardening.
6. Geology - practical but limited. Identifies samples of different soils at a glance. After walks, she shows splashes of mud on her trousers and, by their color and consistency, determines which part of London she is from.
7. Chemistry - deep.
8. Anatomies - accurate, but unsystematic.
9. Criminal chronicle - huge, seems to know all the details of every crime committed in the nineteenth century.
10. Plays the violin well.
11. Excellent fencing with swords and espadrons, an excellent boxer.
12. Solid practical knowledge of English laws.
In further works, Holmes will repeatedly refute Watson's low assessments, especially with regard to philosophy, politics and literature.
- In a conversation with Watson, Holmes criticizes the methods of work of other literary detectives - Auguste Dupin, described by Edgar Poe, and the hero of the works of Emile Gaborio Lecoq. In particular, he considers it a "cheap ostentatious trick" when Dupin followed his friend's thoughts and answered them as if they were talking. However, later, in the story “The Cardboard Box”, Holmes does exactly the same thing with respect to Watson, while appealing precisely to Poe's story.
- One of the reviewers of the story was ... Holmes himself. In the novel "The Sign of Four" he criticized the work, the author of which in the realities of the epic is Watson.
I have seen your story. And, I must confess, I cannot congratulate you on your success. Crime investigation is an exact science, at least it should be. And this type of activity must be described in a strict, dispassionate manner. And you have sentiment there. It's like including a spicy love story in a discussion of Euclid's fifth postulate.<…>Something about which it was possible to remain silent, or at least observe the measure in the presentation of the facts. The only thing that deserves attention in this case is the chain of reasoning from the effect to the cause. This led to the successful completion of the case.
"A study in Scarlet"(English) A Study in Scarlet listen)) is a detective story by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1887. It is in this work that Sherlock Holmes first appears. The first edition of the book was illustrated by Arthur's father, Charles Doyle, and the second edition by George Hutchinson.
Plot
Part 1. "From the memoirs of Dr. John G. Watson, a retired officer of the military medical service"
A body is found in an empty house. This man is one Enoch Drebber, an American. Detective consultant Sherlock Holmes, at the request of his "colleagues" Lestrade and Gregson, easily establishes the cause of death of the unfortunate: it is poison. In the dead man's pockets they find a telegram "J. H. in Europe "(a wedding ring was found at the crime scene), and on the wall next to the body a message left with blood - rache(German for "revenge").
Lestrade soon goes on the trail of the deceased's secretary, Stangerson, and pays him a visit, during which it turns out that he was killed - stabbed to death in his hotel room. Two pills are also found in the room. The experiment set by Holmes showed that one of the pills is harmless, and the second is poisonous, so the killer wanted to give himself and the deceased equal chances.
Holmes puts an advertisement in the newspaper about the loss of the ring (in the name of his companion John Watson) in the hope of finding the criminal, but the detective is cleverly deceived by the killer's accomplice, disguised as an old woman. In the course of surveillance, Holmes misses an accomplice. As a result, with the help of hired ragged street boys, he learns that the killer works as a cabman and, under the guise of moving from home, calls him to his house. With a request to help bring things, he invites the unsuspecting killer to his place, where at that moment there are two of Holmes' comrades (Lestrade and Gregson), investigating this case, Dr. Watson and Holmes himself. When the cabman leans over Holmes' suitcase, he puts handcuffs on him and announces to those present - Lestrade, Gregson and Watson: "Gentlemen, let me introduce you to Mr. Jefferson Hope, the murderer of Enoch Drebber and Joseph Stangerson!" The killer makes an attempt to get out through the window, but four friends twist the criminal.
Part 2. "Country of Saints"
A group of 22 people wandered in search of a better life in the Wild West. As a result, only two remain alive - a certain John Ferrier and a little orphaned girl Lucy, whom Ferrier now considers his daughter. The Mormon convoy discovers Ferrier and the girl in the desert. The travelers were tired of long wanderings without water and food and were already desperate to find a way out of their hopeless situation. Mormons promise to take the unfortunate with them to the colony if they accept the Mormon faith. Ferier agrees. Soon a group of Mormons reaches Utah, where they build their own city. Ferrier becomes a famous and rich man, one raises his adopted daughter, remaining a bachelor, for which he often listens to reproaches from fellow polygamists.
One day, Lucy is saved by a young man, Jefferson Hope, a respectable Christian, the son of an old acquaintance of Ferier's. He stops at his house. Hope is engaged in the fact that he mines silver in the mountains and sells it in Salt Lake City in order to earn money for the development of the deposits he discovered. Soon, Hope announces to Lucy that he needs to leave for two months, but before that, he asks her to marry him. The girl agrees, her father is also very happy with her daughter's decision, because he would never have dared to pass her off as a Mormon - John Ferrier considers polygamy a shameful thing. When Hope leaves, the elder of the colony, Brigham Young, comes to Ferrier. He obliges Ferrier to marry his daughter to either the son of Drebber or the son of Stangerson. After talking with his daughter, Ferrier decides to wait for Hope to return and the three of them to escape from the colony. The next day, Stangerson and Drebber's son come to Ferrier to woo. Ferrier rudely sends them both out, which is considered a deadly offense by the customs of the colony. Soon Yang sends a note to Ferrier:
You are given twenty-nine days to atone for guilt, and then ...
The day before the end of the allotted time, Hope returns. The fugitives manage to pass the guard, supposedly having permission from the Council of Four (Drebber, Stangerson, Kemball and Johnston). They go after them. On the second day, food supplies are depleted and Hope goes hunting. At night, he returns to the camp with prey. Neither Ferrier nor Lucy is there. Hope understands that something irreparable has happened. He finds a grave with the inscription:
Hope returns to the colony, where she learns from Mormon Cowper that Lucy was forcibly married to Drebber. A month after the wedding, Lucy dies. During the funeral, a feral, ragged Hope makes his way to the coffin and removes the wedding ring from her finger. He goes to the mountains, wanders, leads a wild life. After some time, Hope returns to his former activities, but only in order to save up some money and take revenge on the villains who killed his bride and her father. In Nevada, he learns that the younger members of the Mormon colony, including the sons of Drebber and Stangerson, have rebelled, renounced the Mormon faith, and left. For years he roamed the cities. He knew that Drebber and Stangerson left America and moved to Europe. They were both in St. Petersburg and Copenhagen, soon the unfortunate hero finds them in London and performs his act of revenge.
Without waiting for the trial, Jefferson Hope dies of an aortic aneurysm (the fact of the presence of the disease was witnessed by Dr. John Watson during the capture of the criminal at 221 Baker Street).
Translations into Russian
The first edition of the novel in Russian appeared in 1898 in the December issue of the magazine "Light" under the title "Late revenge (Doyle's criminal novel)", it was translated from German by Vl. Bernasconi. Since then, more than 10 translations have been made.
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The doctor rents an apartment with a private detective. Investigating a crime with him, the doctor keeps a diary, from which the public learns about the detective Sherlock Holmes.
After receiving a medical degree, Dr. Watson leaves to fight in Afghanistan. After being wounded, he returns to London. On a budget, Watson is looking for an inexpensive apartment. A familiar paramedic introduces him to Sherlock Holmes, a chemical laboratory worker at the hospital, who has rented an inexpensive apartment and is looking for a companion, since he cannot afford to pay alone. Holmes is characterized as a decent man, but somewhat eccentric. He is a first-class chemist, but also enthusiastically studies other sciences.
The Doctor catches Sherlock Holmes examining bloodstains. Thanks to its discovery, it is possible to determine the type of stain, and this is important for forensic medicine.
Holmes leads a measured life for several weeks. He spends whole days in the hospital, and then walks. His personality piques the interest of Dr. Watson. The most come to Holmes different people including Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard.
One day at breakfast, Watson reads an article that says that you can determine a person's profession and character by clothes and hands. He declares to Holmes that this is nonsense, to which he replies that he wrote the article, and, being the only consulting detective of his kind, puts this method into practice. He applies his theory to Dr. Watson, saying that he served in Afghanistan. By bearing, Holmes determines that Watson is a military doctor, and by his swarthy face and white wrists, that he has been to the tropics. Watson is unwell and wounded, which means he was in the war that is now going on in Afghanistan.
Holmes receives a letter in the mail from Police Inspector Gregson. The body of a man was found in an abandoned house. With him business card with the inscription: "Enoch Drebber, Cleveland, USA". There are no signs of robbery or violence, although there are blood stains on the floor. Taking Watson, Holmes arrives at the crime scene.
First, the detective examines the sidewalk, the neighboring house and the soil. Then he enters the house and examines the corpse, whose face is disfigured by a grimace of horror and hatred. Near the corpse, Holmes finds a woman's wedding ring, and in his pockets a book with an inscription from Joseph Stangerson and letters: one to Drebber, the other to Stengerson. Inspector Lestrade arrives and discovers "RACHE" written in blood on the wall. The police conclude that it is Rachel's unfinished name, but Holmes examines the inscription, the dust on the floor, and smiles enigmatically. He says that the killer is a tall man with small legs. The detective also tells what shoes he wears, what cigars he smokes, and adds that the killer has a red face and long nails. He arrived in a cab with a horse who had three old horseshoes and one new one. The killer used poison, and "RACHE" is German for revenge.
On the way home, Holmes explains to Watson that he guessed about the cab and the horse from the footprints on the sidewalk. Since usually a person writes at the level of his eyes, the height can be determined from the inscription. Seeing that the plaster near the inscription was scratched, Holmes realized that the killer had long nails. And finding ashes on the floor, he determined the type of cigars, as he was engaged in the study of ashes.
The constable who was on duty that night says that, seeing a light in an empty house, he went into it, found a corpse and left. At this time, a red-faced drunkard hung around in the street near the gate. Holmes realizes that it was the killer who decided to return to the house for the ring. He advertises in the newspaper about the discovery of the ring. An old woman comes to Baker Street and claims in a gruff male voice that it is her daughter's ring. Holmes gives her the ring and follows, but loses sight of her. He tells Watson that this is not an old woman, but a young actor in disguise.
The police put a note in the newspaper that Enoch Drebber arrived in England with his secretary Joseph Stangerson, and the murder was politically motivated. Lestrade's rival Gregson tells Holmes that he has arrested a certain Arthur Charpentier for murder. Finding a top hat near the corpse, he went to the shop where the headgear had been bought and found out the address of the buyer. Drebber rented an apartment from Arthur Charpentier's mother, behaved inappropriately towards his sister, and Arthur kicked him out. Inspector Gregson met with Arthur and before he could ask anything, he asked if the police suspected him of killing Drebber. Gregson suggests that Arthur hit Drebber in the stomach with a stick, leaving no mark on the body. Drebber died immediately, and Arthur dragged him into the house, leaving an inscription and a ring to confuse his tracks. Meanwhile, Lestrade appears with news of Stangerson's murder at the inn.
Arriving at the crime scene, Holmes and Watson see that death came from a stab in the side, and there was the same bloody inscription on the wall. Lestrade reports that the killer was seen, his appearance matches the description of Holmes. In the pocket of the murdered man, they find a telegram from America with the text "J. H. in Europe”, but without a signature, and on the table lies a box with two pills, seeing which Holmes perks up. He tries pills on a terminally ill dog. One of them is harmless, the second is poisonous. Holmes says he knows who the killer is. A gang of street boys finds a cab for him, and Holmes puts handcuffs on the cabman, presenting him as a murderer.
Aortic aneurysm Jefferson Hope tells his story. He loved a girl who lived among the Mormons, although neither she nor her father followed their religion. Hope dreamed of marrying her, but the Mormons Drebber and Stangerson wanted her to marry their sons. They killed her father, and the girl was forcibly married off. The unfortunate woman died of grief a month later, and Hope swore revenge. For many years he tracked them down and finally found them in London. Having got a job as a cabman, he lured a drunken Drebber into an empty house and offered a choice of two pills. One was harmless, the other was poison. Frightened, Drebber grabbed the poison pill and died. Hope left the house, but left the ring there. When he tracked down Stangerson, he refused to take the pills, and Hope killed him with a knife.
Did not live to see the trial, Hope dies in a prison cell. A note appears in the newspapers that police inspectors Gregson and Lestrade deftly caught the killer. But Dr. Watson keeps a diary in which he writes down all the facts, and the public will find out who actually caught the criminal.
