My favourite book

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.

He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challange, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.

Main characters

Sherlock Holmes

-He was a famous detective.

-He did not jump to conclusions.

-He was intelligent and good detective.

-He was accurate in finding and explaining evidence.

Dr. John Watson

-Holmes friend.

-He help solve tthe cases

-He was a medical doctor in London.

John Turner

-He was a rich man.

-He was not sociable.

-He liked stay at home.

-He is Black Jack of Ballarat.

-He killed Charles McCarthy.

Charles McCarthy

-He is killed by John Turner.

-He was greedy and demanding.

-He liked horse-racing and gambled a lot.

-He liked hunting game in Boscombe Valley.

James McCarthy

-He was 18 years old.

-He was the prime suspect.

-He was the murdered victim's son.

-He had married to a bermaid secretly in Bristol.

Minor Characters

Inspector Lestrade

-He was a detective attached to Scotland Yard.

-He was the first investigating offiser in the case of Charles McCarthy.

-He concluded that James McCarthy killing his own father.

Alice Turner

-She was 18 years old

-She was John Turner's daughter.

-She was a good daughter.

-She was in love with James McCarthy.

-She believed that James McCarthy was innocent of the crime.

Moran

-He was the gamekeeper on John Turner's estate.

-He had a daughter,14-years-old Patience Moran.

-He was one of two witnesses to the crime and he also found James' gun.

Patience Moran

-She was 14 years old.

-She was one of the two witnesses.

-She saw Charles and James having argument at the pool.

Mrs Moran

-She was Moran's wife.

-She was Patience's mother.

-She saw blood on James' arm.

The Judge

-He was the presiding judge in the courtroom in Ross-on-Wye.

-He sentenced James to prison,based on Inspector Lestrade's investigation.

Mrs Watson

-She was Dr Watson's wife.

-She encouraged her husband to accompany and assist Holmes in his cases.

Watson gets a telegram one morning, asking him to meet Holmes at the train station for an adventure. Watson's wife says he's been looking a little down in the dumps, and encourages him to go. So he does. Holmes escorts Watson to a small town in Boscombe Valley, where a man named Charles McCarthy has been murdered. McCarthy has been living as a tenant on the land of his much richer buddy, John Turner. Both of them knew each other back in Australia, where Turner struck it rich. McCarthy has a son, James, and Turner has a daughter.

McCarthy was killed by a blow to the back of the head while standing next to Boscombe Pool. Witnesses saw McCarthy walking towards the pool, followed quickly by his son, James; they also saw the two of them fighting violently. James is found near the body of his father with blood on his hands. To make matters worse for James McCarthy, when the police arrest him on suspicion of murdering his father, James says that he's getting his just desserts. Everyone (including Watson) thinks this sounds like a confession.

Holmes is not so sure. After all, witnesses mention that Charles McCarthy called out "Cooee" to James – but how could he have known that James was behind him? McCarthy didn't even know that James was in town. Couldn't McCarthy have been expecting someone else at the pool? And if James did kill his dad, why didn't he bother to make up a story explaining their argument? Why remain silent on that point? James's statement does add two new pieces of evidence: his father's last words were something about "a rat," and James noticed a grey cloak on the ground next to his father's body when he ran over to see him. When James looked up, the cloak was gone.

Holmes goes to see James. He finds out that James has no idea who killed his father. Inspector Lestrade, the Scotland Yard officer who loves giving Holmes a hard time, is sure that James is guilty. But Holmes keeps defending James: after all, he notes, "Cooee" is an Australian cry, and McCarthy's last words weren't "a rat" but "Ballarat," an Australian city name. Doesn't it seem more likely that the last person to see McCarthy before his fatal injury was a fellow Australian? Lestrade sneers and takes his leave.

Holmes, meanwhile, has arranged a meeting with John Turner, McCarthy's old buddy from Australia. It turns out that it was Turner who McCarthy was meeting by Boscombe Pool. Turner was a robber back in Australia, and McCarthy knew about it. He had been blackmailing Turner for years. The last straw was that McCarthy had been trying to make his son marry Turner's daughter. But Turner will not tolerate McCarthy mixing his blood with Turner's daughter. So he picked up a rock and hit McCarthy over the head. When he heard James coming to the pool, he ran off, dropping his cloak. He managed to grab the cloak without being seen and got away.

Turner agrees to sign a confession so that, if James McCarthy is convicted of murder, Holmes can get the young man off. But Turner is dying, and doesn't want to spend his final days in prison for justifiable homicide (what with the blackmail and all). Holmes agrees that Turner's about to meet a higher judge than England can provide. Fortunately, James's case is dismissed due to lack of evidence, James marries Miss Turner, and John Turner takes his secret to the grave seven months later.

I like much this book because Sherlock Holmes is my favourite detective of ever.

Is my favourite book because its a novel of assasinations, mystery and its very exciting.

My favourite phrase: Dr Watsons: "A happy ending to a brilliant case. I congratulate you, Holmes".