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Compare three of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, commenting on what makes them typical crime stories, and what we learn about the era they were set
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Compare three of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, commenting on what makes them typical crime stories, and what we learn about the era they were set. In this assignment I am going to compare three of Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories about Sherlock Holmes. The stories I am going to compare are The Speckled Band (1892) The Man with the Twisted Lip (1892) and The Empty House (1905). I am going to note the similarities and differences between the settings, detective techniques, language, characters and plots of the stories. The stories are interesting for many reasons. One of the reasons is the insight it gives us into life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Another reasons why Conan Doyle's stories are interesting is the relationship between the very clever and observant Sherlock Holmes and the sometimes inferior Dr. John Watson. Although each story has a different mystery and different...
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