![]() Throughout the novel, we see this kind of deduction based purely on Holmes’ observations and his reasoning from what he has seen and heard. Conan Doyle wanted a detective who solved crimes and came to conclusions through scientific means. ![]() Arthur Conan Doyle has said that fictional detectives of his day came to their conclusions almost miraculously. One of the most important, from the perspective of crime fiction, is Holmes’ approach to solving crimes. Several important elements run through this novel. You might even say that their pasts catch up with them. It turns out that their murders are linked to events in their pasts. ![]() Holmes puts his deductive powers to work and figures out who killed Enoch Drebber and Josepth Stangerson. ![]() Another theory of Drebber’s murder is that Stangerson committed it that theory, too, is scuttled by Stangerson’s murder. Since Arthur Charpentier was in police custody at the time of the murder, there’s no way he could have committed the crime. But then, Stangerson, too, is killed, and it soon becomes clear that the two deaths are linked. At first, Arthur Charpentier, whose mother keeps the boardinghouse, is suspected of the murder Drebber had made unwanted advances at Arthur’s sister and had made himself a very unpleasant boarder. ![]()
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