London, around 1880.
John H Watson (narrator) was graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1878, and became an army surgeon. Wounded in Afghanistan, he is back to London, with few resources and no kin nor friend.
But he meets Stamford, a former fellow student. Exchanging news, Watson complaints how difficult it is to get a comfortable room at reasonable price.
- "That's a strange thing", answers Stamford, "you're the second man today that has used that expression to me."
- "And who was the first ?"
Thanks to Stamford, John H Watson makes Sherlock Holmes's acquaintance. The meeting takes place in a laboratory at St Bart's Hospital (although there is no Molly Hooper, of course). Sherlock Holmes welcomes them with an exuberant enthusiasm : He just found a way to date blood stains !
Later, installed in Baker Street, a boring Watson tries to figure out what Holmes's occupation might be. He makes a list of what Holmes is good at, has moderate knowledge of, or is completely ignorant of (astronomy, for example). But the enlightenment comes when Holmes is called upon a mysterious murder case : he is a detective, the only one of his kind.
A man has been found dead, without any hint of a wound, lethal or no. On a wall, the word "Rache" written with blood.
Two policemen are competing to solve the case : Gregson and Lestrade -"they are a pick of a bad lot" (dixit Holmes).
On the crime scene, Holmes demonstrates its capacities and is able to give a profile of the murderer. Helped, or at least followed, by Watson, he leads the tracking.
The rest of the story must be discovered by reading the novel. Let's just say that it is the story of a long revenge, the vengeance of a man who was deprived of the woman he loved. It takes its roots in the journey that brought Mormons to the state of Utah.
There are few common points with the scenario of "a study in pink", but for the job that allows the murderer to kill. Although in Doyle's story, there are only two victims, related to their murderer.
But the bases are there : a companionship between a boring, solid and pragmatic veteran from Afghanistan, and a temperamental genius who created a new science : the science of deduction.
Later, installed in Baker Street, a boring Watson tries to figure out what Holmes's occupation might be. He makes a list of what Holmes is good at, has moderate knowledge of, or is completely ignorant of (astronomy, for example). But the enlightenment comes when Holmes is called upon a mysterious murder case : he is a detective, the only one of his kind.
A man has been found dead, without any hint of a wound, lethal or no. On a wall, the word "Rache" written with blood.
Two policemen are competing to solve the case : Gregson and Lestrade -"they are a pick of a bad lot" (dixit Holmes).
On the crime scene, Holmes demonstrates its capacities and is able to give a profile of the murderer. Helped, or at least followed, by Watson, he leads the tracking.
The rest of the story must be discovered by reading the novel. Let's just say that it is the story of a long revenge, the vengeance of a man who was deprived of the woman he loved. It takes its roots in the journey that brought Mormons to the state of Utah.
There are few common points with the scenario of "a study in pink", but for the job that allows the murderer to kill. Although in Doyle's story, there are only two victims, related to their murderer.
But the bases are there : a companionship between a boring, solid and pragmatic veteran from Afghanistan, and a temperamental genius who created a new science : the science of deduction.
Characters : Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Lestrade
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