(Introduction) "Queen Mary Peak" in the detective reasoning world: Conan. Doyle

Write in front:

This is a lesson plan for online (distance) teaching for middle school students. It is also one of the ways to allow students to continue to be exposed to literature when they cannot be guided in writing in physical courses. I think, "writing" is not for exams or academic tests. It is not just mere recitation of formulas or idioms and good sentences;

The real meaning of writing and the value of writing are to leave no regrets in one's life, and to be able to communicate effectively with the outside world at any time, make correct statements, and occasionally solve cases (huh?) . Take off the earphones, pour yourself a cup of black coffee, and see the power and penetrating power of the words. Even in the era of rapid eye movement information explosion, the black and white printed lead fonts are still full of charm... The cry in silence and Complaints, there are many forms in the world, nothing is more than words.

About his point that may surprise you:

 1. He is a doctor by profession.
2. His writings include horror novels, sports novels and historical novels, and even fictional war, science fiction and adventure novels.
3. "Sherrinford" is actually the earliest protagonist's name. (It is said that it was discarded because it was too hypocritical to read)
4. He is one of the few writers who kills the protagonist because he is tired of writing. (Later, as the pressure of public opinion was too great, the protagonist had to be resurrected again)
5. Entered parliamentary elections twice, and lost both times by high votes.
6. He has repeatedly come forward to expose false accusations with a sense of justice, and successfully rehabilitated those who have been wronged.
7. He is a firm believer in spiritism and spiritualism.
8. "Room B, 221 Baker Street, London", and "21, 2-chome, Beikacho" are not his home.
9. "There is always only one truth!", not what he said.

"Any truth is better than vague doubt."

"Life is like a bunch of yarn without color, and murder is like a red thread mixed with it; our detective's job is to take it apart, to separate it, and even to remove every inch of it. exposed..."

"The Origin of Murder," Conan. Doyle (Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, 1859-1930),

Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the British Empire. He obtained a medical degree from the University of Edinburgh, and after sailing to West Africa and other places as a ship doctor for internship work, he chose to open a business in Plymouth (Plymouth). , lived the days of hanging pots to help the world and to diagnose patients. However, since the income is not good, and idle is idle, so while waiting for the patient to come to the clinic, Doyle, who embraces the dream of literary youth, decides to "slash" to challenge the creation of short stories...

In four years, after several short stories were published in newspapers and magazines, Doyle practiced and pondered (of course, also included the rejected ones), Doyle integrated his experience of overseas life into his rich imagination, coupled with historical research. In 1887, he published the first long detective novel "A Study in Scarlet" with "Sherlock Holmes" and "Doctor Watson" as the protagonists of the story, and was selected and published. Featured in Beeton's Christmas Annual 1887. From the naming of the original protagonist "Sherrinford" to "Sherlock" after the final version was published, "A Study in Scarlet" did not let Doyle, who was only 28 years old, rise to the occasion; The cross-border blood feud of crossing the sea from the New World to the empty house in England also combines the history of American and Western pioneering and the mysterious Mormon organization. It can be described as a novel with suspense and dramatic tension, but the sales volume is only in line with the market level.

Two years later, at the invitation of mainstream American publishing houses, Doyle continued to publish "The Sign of Four", which has an exotic background in India, as well as rare treasures that have not been handed down, and even military comrades. Betrayal and strange and unsolved methods of death, his works have achieved certain acclaim in the United Kingdom and the United States; he continued to seize the opportunity to write in the spare time, and finally in 1891, with "The Strand" (The Strand) The Sherlock Holmes serialized novel series in the magazine tasted great career success!

Sherlock Holmes and his detective agency, 221B Baker Street, London, quickly became a household name in the United Kingdom and a popular attraction, even though everyone knew it was a non-existent character, but his violin skills Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who is exquisite in disguise, excellent in marksmanship and martial arts, and a famous detective who has defended the dignity of the British royal family and resisted foreign bullying. He was the hope and pride of the British at that time. (For example, in the era of "Jack the Ripper", where the murderer still cannot be found) , Sherlock Holmes appeared like a savior, which tied people's last confidence in justice.

In the 1930s, Room B at 221 Baker Street became a usable address, with the result that financial institution employees who moved into the office often received letters signed to Sherlock Holmes.

At the same time, Doyle himself also went to Vienna to study ophthalmology medical technology, hoping to transform into an ophthalmologist, but because writing occupies almost all of his daily life, it further "hampered" the progress of his favorite historical novels, and the good news is that the media Every day he was looking forward to it, waiting for the new detectives of Sherlock Holmes and Watson to come out, which made him a little breathless, and decided to... give his hero to death!

In 1893, the time finally came. In The Adventure of the Final Problem, Doyle arranged for Holmes to die together with his nemesis, Professor James Moriarty. Beneath the icy waterfalls next to the Swiss mountains! He believes that the ending of such a story, on the one hand, shows heroism like a Greek tragedy, and on the other hand, it can annihilate the head of the evil party. Most importantly, both himself and Sherlock Holmes were able to obtain substantial "liberation" at this moment.

Okay! Presumably this will be a regrettable and reasonable goodbye, right? Wrong, Doyle underestimated the paranoia of the British!

As soon as the ending of the famous detective's "death in the line of duty" was announced to the public, Sherlock Holmes's obituary immediately made the die-hard "Fu" fans cry out, like a funeral! In the hearts of countless readers, Sherlock Holmes is so powerful and extraordinary, from anatomy, poison to cryptography, like a magician, how could he easily fall off a cliff and die?

In April 1902, the serialization of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (The Hound of the Baskervilles) was completed. It was Doyle's comeback after he stopped writing, but the background of the story was set in "The Last Case". "Before, readers still carried a trace of regret and expectation.

Finally, in 1903, after a full ten-year window period, Doyle, who had already been knighted by the king at the invitation of the mainstream American publisher Collier's, once again completed "The Adventures" (The Adventures). of the Empty House), under the flawless crime of Sebastian Moran, Sherlock Holmes unexpectedly appeared. Although Dr. Watson and others were stunned, he also defended London, fought crime, and completely annihilated Professor Moriarty's remnants of remnants all over Europe! While moving the book fans to open the book, they can once again follow the footsteps of Sherlock Holmes and Watson and enter the exciting world of detective reasoning!

Until his retirement in 1927, Doyle wrote a total of 56 short stories and 4 full-length Sherlock Holmes collections, such as "The Valley of Fear" and "The Last Salute". Last Bow, etc., in addition to a large number of translations into dozens of languages, it is also continuously published in all corners of the world.

Although Doyle began his career as a doctor, he single-handedly established the basic elements of today's speculative (detective) fiction, such as secret rooms, cryptography, dying messages, poisoning, dual roles, body replacement, disguise (suicidal) Murder, unexpected weapons, specially designed hideouts, and more.

"A Study in Scarlet" (A Study in Scarlet)

The first appearance of Sherlock Holmes

The book is divided into two parts. The first part is narrated by the author (Doctor Watson) in the first person, mainly telling the story of the case. The second part is subtly changed to a third-person statement, mainly explaining the grievances between the prisoner and the victim.

"The Memoirs of Dr. Watson" talks about the author (Watson) who, through a friend's introduction, met Sherlock Holmes, who he regarded as "a queer and learned man" , with whom he rented a house in Baker Street. The two main detectives of the Metropolitan Police make their first appearance in this work, explaining the murder case (a rich businessman was killed in an empty house), Watson and Holmes rushed to the scene of the incident, although the detective found Tu The words "RACHE" (meaning "revenge" in German) were written in blood on the wall, but after careful observation, Holmes deduced the general characteristics of the prisoner by deductive method based on various traces and characteristics (in addition to distinguishing soot, he also used a tape measure and a magnifying glass) Scientific investigation of the crime scene), and later in a series of twists and turns, with the appearance of another victim, the secretary of the deceased, Sherlock Holmes set a trap and used a scheme to arrest the prisoner who was disguised as a coachman in London. .

"The Hometown of the Saints" tells the story of the prisoner's youth in Utah, and how he developed a bloody feud with the victim (the "victim" killed the "prisoner"'s lover and his father in the United States) until he completed his revenge plan in London ; The novel involves Mormons (Mormons) that prevailed in the Midwest of the United States at that time, and it also caused a lot of controversy and discussion.

The Valley of Fear

Sherlock Holmes received a ciphered letter, and just as he was bothering to decode it, he received a murder notice from the police. The deceased actually had a considerable relationship with the sender of the ciphered letter. The piece of paper "VV341" left by the deceased not only involved Professor Moriarty, the head of an international criminal group, but even traced a major event that happened in the United States more than ten years ago...

The long train carries minerals and people through the quiet valley to the so-called new life (outside of the chemical), where FBI agents pretend to be counterfeit money makers to infiltrate a criminal group composed of miners, and stand in one fell swoop. With great deeds, he defeated the gangster as strong as a pyramid with lightning speed. Later, he flew across the sea with his wife and settled in the United Kingdom... But he never expected that the villain escaped the death penalty and the remnants of the crime were still alive. , the operator has been targeted by the minions of the criminal group, and Holmes also intervened in the case.

Why is the Vermissa Valley in Pennsylvania, which is rich in coal and iron ore, the Valley of Fear that everyone talks about? Twelve years apart, what is the entanglement between a murder that took place in an English rural castle and the Uncanny Valley?

Doyle skillfully brought the "Molly Maguires" formed by the descendants of Irish immigrants in Pennsylvania into the detective stories, and also wrote the actual crimes such as union struggles and violent organizations into fictional novels. James McParland, a Pinkertons private investigator who successfully infiltrated and confronted Maguire and obtained key criminal testimony, was one of the inspirations for writing.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The serial magazine was reprinted seven times that year to meet readers' subscription needs.

The best Sherlock Holmes case in the hearts of 100 Sherlock Holmes scholars around the world (unanimously voted)

A mysterious case that has plagued the Baskerville Manor for more than a century... According to legend, the ancestors of Baskerville committed many evils and were killed by a huge mastiff. But after a few generations, the owner of the family could not escape the same terrible and tragic fate. Is the terrifying mastiff roaming the wasteland again? Is this an unexplainable mysterious fate, or is someone deliberately working behind the scenes?

Doyle combines (rational) detective literature with (sensual) Gothic fiction (a fictional exploration of the chaotic unease of contemporary human beings) literature , including Darwin's "Theory of Evolution," which is inexplicably terrifying. The super-religious sentiments of the people, as well as the panic and worry that the body and spirit will continue to decline in the face of the increasingly corrupt capital (industrialized) society at the end of the century.

Sherlock Holmes represents rationality, the devil dog and the manor selection mean complete sensibility , and Doyle has placed an old mansion that stands in a certain isolated piece of the world, both gloomy and dangerous, hehe, for readers, there is no such thing as What can inspire more anxiety and fear than a lonely house in a swamp shrouded in gray fog...

"The undulating meadows swelled on both sides of the path; the gabled houses with sloping roofs were hidden in the shade of dense trees; in the distance of the quiet, sun-drenched village, against the sunset sky, a grey, uninterrupted The swampy land, empty and gloomy, occasionally protrudes a few sinister hills like a crisscross of teeth.”

"The front of the house is covered with ivy, but here and there, the frames are trimmed, leaving the windows and the coat of arms, like holes in a black veil. It is from this central building that the two spires rise. It is very old, and there are many pheasant holes on the tower. On the left and right sides of the tower are the wings, which are relatively modern black granite buildings. The twilight setting sun shines through the thick glass of the window lattice, and the high chimney on the large sloping roof Spit out a puff of black smoke."

This is not a six-level model essay for scene writing, this is a fake detective novel!

The same monumental masterpiece, Roaring Heights (Wuthering Heights; by Emily Brontë), directly confronts the hypocrisy of religion, morality, and social values in the Victorian era (mid-to-late 19th century). Social class and gender inequality.

In the final chapter of the novel, we can better appreciate the heavy burden of people at that time "carrying the past and worrying about the future" , even though Sherlock Holmes's ability to solve cases is unmatched, he is regarded as representing the rational (modern) world to overcome the mysterious and superstitious sensibility (legend, tradition). ) field, but another deep self-reflection:

(Non-religious) In the nature of human sin (evil nature) and evil deeds (Seven Deadly Sins), there is actually a greater mystery (the voluntary fall of man), so in an unknown sense, this mystery is like Beyond our rational cognition and experience.

Note:

"Queen Mary's Peak" is the highest peak in the United Kingdom (including overseas territories) , located in Tristan da Cunha (Tristan da Cunha) in the South Atlantic, with an altitude of 2,062 meters above sea level...If it is placed in Taiwan , which is not as good as the standard for “Hundred Mountains” (about 3,030 meters), and is only a little higher than Fenqihu Frozen Mountain (1,976 meters). (Is this cold knowledge?)

Image source, together with thanks to:

https://www.britishlibrary.cn/zh-hk/works/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Study_in_Scarlet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Valley_of_Fear

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles