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A COMPLETE GUIDE TO SHERLOCK HOLMES | SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

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  To the great mind, and beyond... "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Rating: All the stars in universe!!! Genre: Murder, mystery, crime, action Finally, I've finished the complete Sherlock Holmes collection and proud of myself that I did. I can't wrap my mind around the greatness of our one and only Consulting Detective, the master of deduction. I'm just so in love with Sherlock and Watson. And their friendship! Just like two teenagers on adventures. The amount of people who have neither read any Sherlock Holmes story nor watched any movie, is obviously very few (is there any at all?). Apart from the world of avid readers, Sherlock is loved and his cases are savored by almost anyone of any age. Sherlock Holmes collection comprises of 4 novels and 56 short stories. Reviewing Sherlock Holmes is, according to me, a daring and impossible job. Besides, I don't possess the audacity to technically revi...

THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD | AGATHA CHRISTIE

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Family or Friends -no one is free of suspicion! It is odd, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge , the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial. Rating: 5/5 Genre: Murder, crime, mystery "Christie fooled you", this is the ending line of the book and already you all can possibly guess that this one is gonna be super unpredictable, well at least for me, it was. Agatha Christie fooled me with her  damned conceptual ingenuity  and I found myself cupping my mouth in shock at the climax.  Roger Ackroyd married Mrs. Ferrars, the lady who poisoned her first husband. "A life always calls for a life"-Mrs. Ferrars committed suicide. A handwritten letter from Mrs. Ferrars arrived to Roger Ackroyd by the evening post, a confession of her guilt.  The very evening, Roger Ackroyd was found murdered in his study, the letter, gone! All evidence pointed towards his adopted son, Ralph. Roger's niece, Flora, believing ...