A scandal in Bohemia

This book tells us a new adventure of Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Watson. This time should get a picture of the king of Bohemia, who has an old girlfriend, Irene Adler. At stake is ruining the wedding of the king. At the end do not get the picture Sherlock, but the king is safe because Irene is married to the person who loves and cares no longer cause a scandal. A Scandal in Bohemia: The King of Bohemia comes to London to visit Sherlock Holmes in disguise. He fears that his marriage to the King of Scandinavia’s daughter is in danger because of Irene Adler. Adler, his former girlfriend, has a photo of them which he worries may cause a scandal. The King of Bohemia urgently needs Sherlock Holmes to scheme a plan to find the picture so that it can be destroyed. Disguised as a priest, Holmes succeeds in finding out where the picture is hidden, but before he can get hold of it, Adler flees the country with her new husband. She sends Holmes a letter telling him how she saw through his scheme, but promises never to use the picture. No one ever beat Sherlock Holmes but Irene Adler. The Red-Headed League: Ezekiah Hopkins is the red-haired American leader of a unique League in London for only red-headed men above the age of twenty-one. Jabez Wilson, a shop owner in Coburg Square, starts working for the League in the mornings, leaving his assistant Mr Spaulding, who spends long hours in the underground room developing pictures, in charge of the shop. Mr Wilson works for the League for some time but one day he is shocked to find that the League has been mysteriously closed. Mr Wilson tells Holmes about the League, who realises it was merely an excuse invented by Mr Spaulding to make Mr Wilson leave his shop. Spaulding is really John Clay, a criminal, and he spent the time digging a hole towards the City Bank to steal thirty thousand gold pieces from the bank. Clay gets to the bank and discovers only Holmes and men from Scotland Yard. The Boscombe Lake Mystery: The Turners and the McCarthys live in Mr Turner’s farms by Boscombe Lake. Miss Turner and young McCarthy are in love but Mr Turner is against their marriage. One day Mr McCarthy is found dead and his own son is the first suspect. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson travel there to solve the mystery. Holmes discovers the killer is Mr Turner, who has just a month to live.

Holmes makes him sign a letter confessing his crime and promises him that if young McCarthy is freed, Miss Turner will never know what he did. The letter explains how McCarthy met Turner in Australia, when they were both young, and witnessed Turner’s stealing gold, killing men and escaping to England. McCarthy followed Turner and blackmailed him by telling him that if his daughter did not marry his son he would reveal his past. Turner finally loses his mind and kills McCarthy. Holmes tells the police and young McCarthy is set free. Miss Turner never learns the true story about her father. The Blue Diamond: Mr Peterson asks Sherlock Holmes for help telling him that a chicken and a hat, with the name ‘Mr Baker’ written on it, are to be given to a Mrs Henry Baker. Holmes is to find the woman but discovers that Lady Morcar’s famous ‘blue diamond’ is inside the chicken. Holmes knows about the missing ring and how a repairman, John Horner, was blamed for the theft. Yet, the chicken evidences something else, so he places an advertisement in the newspaper searching for Mr Henry Baker. Baker eventually shows up but can only provide the name of the man he bought the chicken from. Holmes and Watson talk to many men involved in the purchase of the chicken until he interrogates Mr Ryder, who finally confesses to having stolen the blue diamond and framed innocent John Horner. The Single Man: Sherlock Holmes is to help the titled but penniless Lord Simon to find Miss Hatty Doran, his newly-wedded, well-off missing bride. Holmes finds out that a dancer who used to date Lord Simon tried to stop the wedding, but failed, and that Miss Doran disappeared after seeing a mysterious man at the church. Miss Doran’s clothes appear inside the lake and everything suggests murder. Holmes finds a note written on a hotel bill signed by a F.H.M., Frank H. Moulton, and this solves the enigma. Holmes finds the missing bride and the mysterious man and learns that they were secretly married, against her father’s will. Soon after their wedding, Mr Moulton went to New Mexico in search of gold and was reported dead. Miss Doran ended up marrying Lord Simon to please her father, but saw her ‘late husband’ alive on her wedding day and decided to run away with him.