When I was around eleven years old, I read Sir Arthur
Canon Doyle’s famous Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. As much as I have never
been a dedicated mystery fan, Sherlock Holmes grabbed my attention and has
never let go. As a kid, I wanted to be like Sherlock. I wore Pop’s old trench
coat and with my green and white plastic bubble pipe and trusty magnifying
glass, I roamed the house and yard searching for clues to some mysterious
happening after another.
I was quite proud of the fact that I actually solved the
mystery of The Hounds Of The Baskervilles before I finished reading it. Maybe
it was the strange characters or just the intensity of how Doyle wrote those
mysteries that made me love Sherlock, but I was all in.
I think I have watched every movie and TV series
involving Sherlock Holmes and Watson, his faithful sidekick. And, lest we
forget, the best villain ever, Moriarty, was penned into these stories—and I do
love a good villain. Moriarty has to be the most devious, intelligent, and evil
villain that ever existed. What would a detective as innovative as Sherlock
Holmes do without his match to test his courage and intelligence?
You may ask why I bring up Sherlock Holmes today, well it
IS Halloween, but more than that, I saw in the daily post titled “Today In
History” that Sir Arthur Canon Doyle first published The Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes on October 31, 1892—Halloween! How great is that? Just in case you want
to read it, here is the link: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-published?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2016-1031-10312016&om_rid=4d63dea69e0614740ba4cf720055a484f1f9cb0e9a3c53cefd61b21aa7be8758&om_mid=104011034&kx_EmailCampaignID=7826&kx_EmailCampaignName=email-hist-tdih-2016-1031-10312016&kx_EmailRecipientID=4d63dea69e0614740ba4cf720055a484f1f9cb0e9a3c53cefd61b21aa7be8758
