Book Reviews

Miss Mary Morstan comes to Sherlock Holmes with a strange story of her missing father, Captain Arthur Morstan. She narrates that Captain Morstan served in the 34th Bombay Infantry and came to London on a twelve months leave. He sent a telegram to his daughter to visit him at the Langham Hotel. When she arrived , however, he had gone out somewhere and did not return afterwards. Four years after her father's missing, she found an advertisement in the newspaper requesting for her address, which she did publish. Afterwards she started recieving a precious pearl every year. Miss Morstan shows a letter without any address to Holmes and Watson that leads the three of them to Thaddeus Sholto, who is the son of Major John Sholto, Captain Morstan's dear friend. Thaddeus enlightens Miss Morstan as to how she is an heiress of a fortune and that her father died during an argument over the division of the treasure Sholto's father posessed, that belonged to both of them. Although M...

Sherlock Holmes' fans here? This time around I thought of writing about the book where Sherlock Holmes was born, "A Study in Scarlet". Dr Watson, who is a doctor in the British Army, is our narrator in the book. He writes about his first encounter with Sherlock Holmes. Dr Watson has an ailing health and is short on money. He is looking for a shared accomodation in London. The partner he finds is Sherlock. Watson develops quite in interest in the strange ways of this man. Sherlock happens to be a private detective and the first major case he gets after he starts living with Dr. Watson is "A Study in Scarlet". Enoch Drebber and Joseph Stangerson are found mysteriously dead, one after the other. The detectives from Scotland Yard have to figure wether the murders were political or personal in nature. Sherlock Holmes in his own unique way of reasoning backwards, figures the whole case out, before anyody else does. A two decade old feud comes into the picture and...

A book written more than two decades ago, still holds the answers to a lot of your questions regarding relationships. Dr. John Gray, discusses the differences of men and women, metaphorically relating them to different planets. He explains that majority of the problems that occur in a relationship are due to the psychological differences between men and women. Dr. Gray states that although the culture of our society has changed, the needs and wants of both the genders are deep down the same, which both genders don't realize. He explains how with the evolution of society, women now have responsibilities other than the conventional responsibility of being a homemaker. These facts (and others as you'll read the book) have changed our understanding of both genders and we have lost the relationship skills our ancestors had. Both genders now want each other to become like themselves, ignoring the differences both genders have- psychological and emotional. Dr. Gray explains at gr...