Quarter 1 SSR Book Review

          My first quarter book had 22 different stories. The book was The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries by Arthur Conan Doyle. This book has 523 pages. The genres for this book are mystery, classic, fiction, and short stories.
         This book is amazing because of how many different cases in each chapter. It makes you think about how the criminals did their crime. Most of the stories had a twist to it which got me hook on the book. Out of all the stories in the collection had to be The Red-Headed League was my favorite. The main protagonist in this story is Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock was having an conversation with a man named Jabez Wilson. As they were talking Wilson reveals that he was a pawnbroker and has an assistant named Vincent Spaulding. Vincent was a good worker but gets pay so little. He always goes to the basement to develop photos because he loved photography. One day Wilson gets a notice from Vincent about the red-headed league that they give lots of money. Wilson went to go apply for it and gets hired by a man named Duncan Ross .Wilson did it because can earn more money by copying pages from Encyclopedia Britannica. After 8 weeks Wilson finds out that the red-headed league dissolves. Everyone and Vincent vanish. Wilson tells Sherlock about it and starts investigating. Later on in the story Sherlock solves the case by realizing that the Red-headed league was fake the whole time. It was for Vincent to spend time digging a tunnel in the basement all the way to a bank that was near and able to rob the bank and get away with it. Sherlock Holmes and Watson makes a plan to capture them later on.
         The main character Sherlock Holmes is amazing. After he solves a case, it makes me think how does he do it. Sherlock Holmes is always unexpected about what he does and what hes thinking and has weird methods to solve a case. For example he couldn't solve a case so he told Watson to watch a movie with him like 20 minutes later he solves the case.