Casebook Entry # 3

Light showers outdoors keep me quarantined inside the manor, wrapped up in a throw blanket and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Mysteries. The mastery of Holmes in his trade never ceases to amaze me. I can only hope that one day my sleuthing skills will be comparable to his standards of excellence in the métier.

The story entitled, "A Scandel in Bohemia" struck me as particularly instructive. In a brief exchange between Holmes and his friend Watson, the deft detective elaborates on the qualities neccesary for being a succussful isleuth. When Watson cannot say how many steps comprise the staricase which leads to Holmes' drawing room he is disparaged for not being constantly in possession of his faculties of sight and observation, "You have not observed," Holmes admonishes him, "And yet you have seen. This is just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed."

I must remember, in my blossoming career, that one must both see and observe, listen and hear, touch and feel, in order to solve a mystery. I am eager to continue with my reading and learning under the tutelage of Sherlock Holmes and happy for the rain that taps gently on the window panes of Whittleworth manor.