Ill be honest, I can see why this wasnt a favorite for too many peopleIt was going pretty well, you get to the point where Holmes and Watson catch the perpetrator, only to have the chapter end and for the book to move on to Part II. Part II starts off in a completely different place with completely different characters - I was completely lost! (I just used completely 3 times in a sentence, that cant be good). It went on like this for chapters with only a small amount of hints suggesting that this was still actually part of the book I had been reading earlier. Finally in the end everything connects together, but the transition wasnt even a transition at all and I think that was a little frustrating. I will continue on to read the other stories, however for now Ill be taking a Sherlock Holmes break
Blogged about here http://elliek.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/a-study-in-scarlet/
Blogged about here http://elliek.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/a-study-in-scarlet/
This is apparently the first of the Sherlock Holmes stories, so we get the ur-text for Watson's injury, being that he was shot in the shoulder (grazing the subclavian artery) at the battle of Maiwand in Afghanistan (near Kandahar) in 1880 by a jezail bullet. Doyle capitalizes "Jezail", but, as I'm sure you know, a jezail gun is any kind of homemade gun, so a bullet wouldn't be that specific.
