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vivdunstanOnto another story, as I get closer to the end of Memoirs.
I didn't remember this story at all, but it's a really intriguing one, featuring a mysterious setup with a young doctor and his wealthy benefactor, which then morphs into a convoluted plot of theft and murder.
Having Holmes's client be offered a strange and unusually beneficial work placement is not unusual. Though for it to be a medic was a fresh take.
I particularly liked the mysterious elderly and younger Russian (or not ...) men who come as patients. And then how things panned out. I did not expect them to return a second time, or the final outcome! It does feel like a well-balanced story.
This story features in Conan Doyle's list of his favourite 19 (?!?!) Sherlock Holmes short stories. It comes in at position 18, which doesn't sound that high a ranking, but out of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories is pretty good going.
Hopefully I will remember it more by the next time I reread the Holmesian canon. I'm also planning to rewatch the Jeremy Brett version of this story. Visual memory may help record it.
I didn't remember this story at all, but it's a really intriguing one, featuring a mysterious setup with a young doctor and his wealthy benefactor, which then morphs into a convoluted plot of theft and murder.
Having Holmes's client be offered a strange and unusually beneficial work placement is not unusual. Though for it to be a medic was a fresh take.
I particularly liked the mysterious elderly and younger Russian (or not ...) men who come as patients. And then how things panned out. I did not expect them to return a second time, or the final outcome! It does feel like a well-balanced story.
This story features in Conan Doyle's list of his favourite 19 (?!?!) Sherlock Holmes short stories. It comes in at position 18, which doesn't sound that high a ranking, but out of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories is pretty good going.
Hopefully I will remember it more by the next time I reread the Holmesian canon. I'm also planning to rewatch the Jeremy Brett version of this story. Visual memory may help record it.