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Originally Posted by anamardoll
As for the school decision, if you were going to teach a single Sherlock Holmes story, SiS is a bad place to start. It's badly paced -- the second half is the villains' monologue. Holmes is under-developed: he openly mocks the Copernican/heliocentric theory and claims that he only learns what is absolutely necessary (i.e., footprints and cigar ash, largely) for his detective work. It's only later that Holmes is expanded into the Renaissance man that everyone remembers.......
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Ah but Study in Scarlet was the first Holmes story written so naturally it is going to have a few quirks and not be as well written as later books/stories were.