Cracking the Code of the Canon by Diane Gilbert Madsen

Author:Diane Gilbert Madsen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sherlock Holmes, mystery, crime, british crime, sherlock holmes fiction, sherlock holmes novels
ISBN: 9781780929729
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2016
Published: 2016-09-12T00:00:00+00:00

“Nor running a chance of arrest?”

“Not in a good cause.”

“Oh, the cause is excellent!”

“Then I am your man.”

“I was sure that I might rely on you.”

Holmes disguises himself as an amiable clergyman and plots to gain entry to Adler’s house by the crime of deception. On top of this, Holmes and Watson cause damage to Adler’s private property when, at Holmes’ signal, Watson tosses a plumber’s smoke rocket through Adler’s window and yells fire. The next crime would have been the theft of a photograph, but Irene Adler leaves England, taking it with her and preventing the crime. Two more crimes Holmes commits are connected to his witnessing the marriage of Irene Adler, spinster, to Godfrey Norton, bachelor. Holmes says that he was verbally “vouching for things of which I knew nothing” during the marriage ceremony, and thus he was making a false declaration in order to procure a marriage. The same crime would apply if he had to sign a written instrument. If he did, what name did he use? He was disguised as a “drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes....” If he signed the famous name of Sherlock Holmes, surely there would have been a flap. Someone would have noticed and remarked, thus ruining his chance to steal the incriminating photo he’d promised to get for the King. If he signed another name, he would have made a false entry in the register, thus committing a crime falling under the general heading of Deception. Holmes doesn’t reveal the name he used, and we are left to wonder whether this signed affidavit still resides somewhere in the annals of the Church of St. Monica in the Edgware Road. Holmes uses the rationale of an “excellent cause” to justify the actions he takes that are outside the law in this case. His personal moral benchmark is to always be on the side of justice, even if that means breaking the law to achieve it. Justice means justice as he deems it to be, and that is not necessarily the same thing as the justice of a British court of law.

18. The Adventure of the Second Stain. In this case, Holmes has to deal with not only the theft of an important top secret letter, but also with a wife’s betrayal of her husband. Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope removed a document from her husband’s locked dispatch box and turned it over to a blackmailer. She does not know the document is a highly sensitive letter and could cause irreparable damage to the government. The only way Holmes can reclaim the letter is to get Lady Hope to trust him and admit she took it. The only way Holmes can get her husband back into the good graces of the Foreign Office is to cover up the incident. Once again Holmes has to juggle things as he acts to keep secrets - this time secrets of both a family and the government. To keep the secrets

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