Tag: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Prior to reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, all of my background knowledge regarding the genius detective of deductive observation came from cultural references and the BBC television series Sherlock. Often I shy away from works written during the nineteenth century and earlier, although I am making an effort to change that. I tend to stumble over the syntax in particular, and the archaic cultural norms are difficult to look past. But this past October…