Friday, August 6, 2010

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The book is a collection of 12 thriller short stories.The locations in which the stories run around are perfect to create enthusiasm among the readers. Even small architectural elements like doors , door handles, switchboards play their important role in creating required suspense in the narration. Among these 12 stories, one had a house in a village of Norway, whose every architectural detail had been told out in words, which came out as real as they were plans/sections in drawings. The house is located in woods having a wrought iron gate which creaks when opened or closed . The stone pavement with grass coming out of corners leads to a small staircase which leads to the main door and a small verandah having a swing and a bird's nest hanging from the roof . there is only one window on the upper floor which can be seen from the gate, and a very dim yellow light can be seen coming out of the window.Its ground floor had a kitchen on the left and living space  in the middle and a wooden staircase, which makes creaking sound while climbing leads to the bedroom of the owner. The owner and his wife are found lying dead on the floor with no blood signs. When inspected, the door rail had a mark of bullet hit.  But there was no gun around. As such, many of the elements of design helped Holmes in its inspection one or the other way.

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