![]() ![]() In the middle of their conversation, the two friends are visited by a fidgety young woman named Mary Sutherland, who approaches Holmes with a request for his help in a missing person case. Watson, not fully convinced, listens as his friend expounds upon the central importance of tending to unimportant or otherwise overlooked details for the key to a mystery since, as Holmes understands it, “there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace” (225). ![]() As Holmes explains to Watson, the more complicated and interesting crimes are usually the smaller-scale, seemingly insignificant, everyday incidents that escape the public’s notice: “The bigger the crime,” Holmes says, “the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive” (226). It is the heyday of Holmes’s career as a consulting detective, and the two are discussing some of Holmes’s favorite subjects: criminal psychology and inductive analysis (though Holmes calls it deduction). The story begins inside Sherlock Holmes’s apartment on Baker Street, as Holmes converses with his longtime friend and (until recently) roommate, Dr. ![]()
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