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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5773431" data-attributes="member: 8835">I'm reading the original sherlock holmes stories on my ebook that I got for christmas. These appear to be in order of publication or writing (as each one has made reference to prior stories).&nbsp; I'm on the 3rd one right now, the Red Headed League.What's got me associating SH with railroads (and the term may not actually apply), but the deductions SH makes are ones that the reader cannot make.&nbsp; You can't read a sherlock story and solve it or make the same deductions SH does.We are left in the same position Watson is.&nbsp; Sherlock looks so darn smart because he has information and details that the reader does not..at least thats my take from the first 2 stories (study in scarlet and the sign of the 4).&nbsp; Red Headed seems a bit more obvious (and I may have read it centuries before).&nbsp; I'd&nbsp; be surprised if the 1/2 pay clerk who just joined a month ago and encouraged him to apply for the position was not running a scam that involved this gullible red headed client.perhaps future stories become more fair, what do others who've read SH think?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Janx, post: 5773431, member: 8835"] I'm reading the original sherlock holmes stories on my ebook that I got for christmas. These appear to be in order of publication or writing (as each one has made reference to prior stories). I'm on the 3rd one right now, the Red Headed League. What's got me associating SH with railroads (and the term may not actually apply), but the deductions SH makes are ones that the reader cannot make. You can't read a sherlock story and solve it or make the same deductions SH does. We are left in the same position Watson is. Sherlock looks so darn smart because he has information and details that the reader does not.. at least thats my take from the first 2 stories (study in scarlet and the sign of the 4). Red Headed seems a bit more obvious (and I may have read it centuries before). I'd be surprised if the 1/2 pay clerk who just joined a month ago and encouraged him to apply for the position was not running a scam that involved this gullible red headed client. perhaps future stories become more fair, what do others who've read SH think? [/QUOTE]

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