by Conan Doyle · Cluster: Detective Fiction · Ratiocination Detection · Crime and Punishment

Abstract

Mary Morstan consults Holmes about her missing father and a mysterious annual gift of pearls, leading Holmes and Watson into a case rooted in a stolen Agra treasure, a pact of four convicts from the Andaman Islands, and a revenge-driven wooden-legged fugitive with a murderous pygmy accomplice. The novel introduces Holmes’s cocaine habit and Watson’s romance with Mary Morstan.

Capitoli / Chapters

Readability (prose)-7.2 Flesch ease30 FK grade31.1 Fog14% complex63.5 words/sent

Connections

Forms & Genres: Detective Fiction, Novel, Adventure Fiction Themes & Concepts: Empire and Imperialism, Greed and Money, Ratiocination Detection, Crime and Punishment, Revenge, Economics Motifs: Journey, Gems Jewels, City, River Settings: London, Orient, River Thames Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Watson, Mary Morstan, Jonathan Small Archetypes: Detective, Villain, Avenger