As you have requested, I have disclosed a selection of two scenes from the story you had commissioned for me to write, “The Adventure of the Redbridge Fishmonger.” The story details the case of the murder of a fishmonger and is true not only to the world of Sherlock Holmes but also to the character of Holmes himself. Although Sherlock Holmes is unemotionally dedicated to his work of solving mysteries, he also occasionally demonstrates his humanity through humility. Throughout the scenes in my story, Holmes approaches information presented to him with unwavering diligence, whether it is drawing conclusions from mud splatters on garments or thoroughly examining the Redbridge living room to find the hidden safe. However, when complimented on this …show more content…
In the story of “The Adventure of the Empty House,” Holmes returns from hiding from Professor Moriarty’s henchmen and tells Watson that there is a mystery he must solve, although he does not tell Watson the details of what has happened. Watson observes him pondering the mystery, stating that “I knew not what wild beast we were about to hunt down in the dark jungle of criminal London, but I was well assured, from the bearing of this master huntsman, that the adventure was a most grave one—while the sardonic smile which occasionally broke through his ascetic gloom boded little good for the object of our quest” (769). Watson compares the act of Holmes solving a mystery to a hunt, Holmes being the man tracking the monstrous criminal. Holmes does not take this lightly, demonstrating a constant state of almost depressing seriousness —in fact, the search to solve the mystery is a matter that must always end in absolute defeat for his target. Yet he is also able to see it as a game, expressing the joy in mocking the demise of whoever happened to find themselves on his wrong side. Holmes completely lacks empathy for the people on the other side of his case, considering them to be mere objects to be searched, studied, and