The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

A Scandal in Bohemia

A Prince was going to get married in Bohemia with a princess. He used to love a woman called Irene Adler. However, they were not able to marry because she was an ordinary woman. Irene threatened the kingdom that if the prince was going to get married with someone else, then she would send picture to the public of the Prince and her together. Sherlock Holmes was to get the picture (which they do not know where it is). Sherlock solved this mystery by asking his sidekick Dr. Watson to fake that there was fire near Irene's house. He said to do this because just as a mom looks for her baby, Irene would look for her most important thing in her house,which is the picture in this case. They figured out that the picture was in this shelf. The next day, Irene left a note to Holmes that she just did not keep a promise to herself and so that she just gave up. She told Holmes hat she will keep the photo safe and that is how the case ended.

A Case of Identity

One day a woman called Miss Mary Sutherland told Sherlock Holmes her case. Her mother had divorced and had married again. The father is only five years older than Mary. He was very strict about money. One day, Mary told her parents that she would be going to a ball.At the ball, she met a man called Mr. Hosmer Angel. They had fell in love with each other. Mary did not want to tell her father about about this so she invited him when her father was away. Mary never went to Mr. Hosmer Angel's house. Later, Mr. Angel asked Mart to marry her when her father was away. When they arrived at the wedding hall, her fiance had just disappeared. Holmes figured out that the man was Mary's father because if her daughter is getting married, then he had to give her money. He did not want that so he faked like he was another person. The was why Mary's father was not there whenever 'Mr. Angel' came over and it also explains why 'Mr. Angel' asked Mary to marry him when Mary;s father was away.


The Red-Headed League
A man called Jabez Wilson  with red hair had come to talk to Sherlock Holmes this time. He said that his friend called Vincent Spaulding, who worked together told him about the Red-Headed-League.  person called  was a job and Jabez told it. However, one day he saw a sign that said it was dissolved. He wanted Holmes to figure out what was wrong. At the end it was told that Spaulding was working with the person that made the Red-Headed League. They just needed Jabez out of Spaulding's office for a few days. It was because they were digging and underground railroad that was connected to the bank, when they were finished digging, the dissolved the Red-Headed League. Later Holmes and a few of his friend;s who were the police had caught them in the bank. All in all the Red-Headed League rigmarole was to keep Wilson out of his shop while they dug in the basement, in order to break into the bank.


The Boscombe Valley Mystery
This time there was a mystery at a valley called Boscombe. A person called Charles McCarthy was killed by a murderer. They hd to figure out who the murderer was. One of the witness said that they saw a man called James was carrying a gun. However a lady called Alice Turner says that James is innocent because he would not even dare to kill a dragonfly. James and Alice loves each other. At the result, it was Alice's father, John who did the whole thing. He used to be with a group of robbers in Australia. They stole a gold convoy in which Charles was the wagon driver.The group suceded and John McCathy a.k.a Charles so married and had Alice. Later, somehow, he met Charles again and Charles threatened that he would blackmail him. John gave Charles some money but Charles was not satisfied. He demanded that James and Alice should get married. John did not want THAT to happen, so he secretly asked Charles to met at Bonscombe Valley. Then he killed Charles. It was a sad case because seven months later, John died because of his illness.  However, it was said that Alice and James might get married, forgetting about their past.


The Five Orange Pips
One day, a man named John Opensaw came and talked about his case. He talks about his uncle's and father's death. His uncle's name is Elias, was very cold to other people but was very warn to John.  He took care of John because he wanted to. One day a letter came and it contained five orange pips and it was from a person called K.K.K. It seemed like the uncle knew something. He did not do anything about it. From that day, he started asking weird and was found dead in the backyard. The police thought that he suicided but John did not think so. When his father, Joseph,came to live with him, another mail came from the same person with the same thing but there was a letter in it. It said to put the papers in the sundial. Joseph did not do anything about it. One day, he was found in a deep chalk pit and was found dead. John just have received the same mail and that is how he went to Sherlock Homes. Homes told him to put the letters in the backyard. John told him that they burned the letters except for one. Then Holmes told him to put that one on the backyard and to write that the others were burned. Later, Holmes found out that the people were a group of people on a boat and K.K.K. ment the Ku Klux Klan. John was found dead in a lake and Holmes send the letters back to the crew ( the letters they had send to the Opensaw family) but there weren't any letters back.


The Speckled Band
One day a lady called Helen Stoner came to tell Sherlock Holmes hercase.Her mother did when she was young and now lives with her stepfather Grimesby Roylott.He lives in stoke moran with a bunch of gypsies taking care of a baboon and a cheetah. She also talked about her sister's death. One day, her sister, Julia asked her if she ever herd a low whistle in the middle of the dead.Well, Helen never did unless if she was the one who was the one doing it.That same day, Helen was awakened by a terrible scream from her sister. Sadly, it was Julia's last day with her last words- oh my god! Helen it was the band!!! The speckled band!! The coroner never found out of what had caused her death. However, before Julia died she was trying to get married. And later, Helen was asked her hand in marrige and when she told Roylott. Roylott replied that Helen's room needed repairment when everything was fine. Also Helen had to sleep in Julia's room in the exact bed she slpet in. It was when Helen herd a low whistle and decided to go to Holmes.


Later, the result was very shocking. The thing that killed Julia was fright. Roylott did not want to give part of his money to Julia so he got a swamp adder and trained it to came down a bellrope (in Julia's room) and to attack her.So Holmes made the swamp adder to attack Roylott and that was the end of him...


The Engineer's Thumb
One day, a man called  Mr. Victor Hartherley came to tell his case. He talked to a man called  Colonel Lysander Stark. He siad that there was something wrong with their company's machine and asked Victor to fix. He said that this had to be a secret. When Victor went to Stark's house. He realized that the machine was very dangerous and that it depended on his life. He escaped safely but apparently lost his thumb. 
However, when they went with the police to arrest them it was to late. The house was burning and they had escaped. There was basically no result.
I did not really get the story and it was kind of boring for me. I hope that the next story will be way better.

Danny,the Champion of the World

Danny is a nine-year old boy who lives in a gypsy caravan. His mother died when he was four months old. Since then, his father has been taking care of him. His father is a mechanic who never run out of wonderful stories to tell. Life was very peaceful until Danny was told of one of her dad's deep dark secrets. His dad used to do poaching which is stealing other people;s stuff. People who do poaching consider it as a sport. His dad had learned it because his dad used to do it. It was because back then people were very poor in England that they barely had anything to eat. Danny's father was so addicted to it that he continued to do it even though he had enough to eat and drink. However, he had stopped when his wifed had died and promised himself not to do it again until Danny was old enough to be alone. Now he had broken his promise and told everything about it. They mainly steal roost pheasant which is a similar animal to a rooster. Danny grandfather knew the easy way to catch them- raisins. There were two methods to catch them. The first method was to was to stick horsehair and to wait for the animals to come eat it. When they it it, their throat would be very itchy that they will stay very still. The second  method is that you lay the raisins the direction you want your animal to come. They will follow the raisin path. Eventually, they will dig their heads in the paper cone and they will stay very still even though you poke or shout at them. Danny;s dad promises him that he will that him someday when he gets his skills back.
Mr. Hazell's house was the was the target for every poacher. He was very rich but had a bad attitude which was way people hated him much more and would always revenge in a unusual way. Danny's father said that he would go poaching today too and that he had always been poaching at Mr. Hazell's house. Almost everyone in the town did the poaching at Mr. Hazzel's house. 
It was one day when Danny's father went poaching and promised that he would come back bye ten-thirty. Danny woke up at two in the the morning and he was four hours due to his father's time! Quickly without thinking, Danny got into his father's car and started driving to the rich man's house. When he reached that place, he noticed that his father fell in a big hole and the people who was guarding Mr.Hazell's place had planned all of this. With luck, they could not see his father's face because it was too dark. They quickly escaped and called a doctor who was a friend of Danny's father. When Danny's father was all recovered and after the Doctor gave him sleeping pills(which he never ate), he told Danny a gravy secret. He said that once a year, at Mr. Hazell's house, lots of royal people would come and bring guns and would have a shooting party. They would bring pheasants home with them for a gift. Danny's dad said that he would like to steal ALL the 200 pheasants . Danny told his dad that this was imposible but later he had an idea. He told his dad that he should the second method but put a little sleeping pills. Danny's father called this the Sleeping Beauty method and that they had to do this in two days- thursday and friday. On friday.Danny's dad said that he would not need to go to school and also that that he could come poaching that day too. Danny is very scared but excited at the same time.


At the end, they had acomplished their plan but the sleeping pills did not last. Mr. Hazell came to their house and the pheasants flew to his car so Mr. Hazell drove the car to make them go away but they did not. It left Danny and his father 2 pheasants to eat. They had a wonderful feast and it ended in a dramatic way.

The Moffat Museum

There was no place called a museum.... not until the Moffat family made one....


It just all started when Jane suddenly thought that the Moffat's should have en museum. She told her two brothers, Joey and Rufus and her big sister who is about to get married- Sylvie. They get some star dust (which I don't get), an old bicycle they were all taught of how to write on.  They also display some aircrafts  and the most shocking thing is that Rufus turns into a waxworks boy. A journalists who writes free newspapers everyday, writes about the Moffat museum and a tourist who takes kids and always gives them a tour, brings students to show the wonderful and amazing museum. Sylvie gives them a brilliant painting for them to display at the museum.


Even though that Jane is very happy. She is worried too. Sylvie is getting married and she is going to be the flower girl. Also she is really sad because instead of being the 4 little Moffat's it would be the 3. However, she tries her best to get prepared.   

Jacob Have I Loved

Jacob have I loved is a very classical story. It is about two twins called Louise and Caroline. Caroline is much beautiful and better. They eat and sleep in the same room but nothing can put them together.


This book was very hard for me I only read the first chapter. Also high school students should read this, NOT ELEMENTARY  OR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS. I will read this again later. Iam sorry this is not a proper summary. Also my new school had a lot of due dates and tons of homework. And I am serious. TONS of homework I am very sorry but I did not know that this had was there until today. I was really busy. I mean like really busy. I am very sorry. I hope that you will really understand me. Once again, I was very very very very very busy. Thank you and sorry