What is the main pleasure for the reader in reading a Sherlock Holmes story?

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I am going to be discussing the reasons why people might enjoy crime fiction, the way the stories are structured, the different characters that are in the stories. I am also going to be discussing the similarities between each of the three stories, The Speckled Band, Silver Blaze and A Scandal In Bohemia, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Crime fiction is a genre that usually involves a hero detective or heroine detective and in some cases could include more then one investigator. The crimes committed could include, a kidnapping, a burglary, or even murder. No detective story is complete without its villain. Most crime fictional stories if not all have some sort of villain, however the villain can in some forms be the victim also. The villain always tries to commit the perfect crime but the hero triumphs in the end to defeat the evil villain but not always. So why has crime fiction stayed so very popular? Crime fiction has been so popular since Edger Allen Poe’s first detective stories because the readers are kept involved in all of the stories. Readers today enjoy reading about blood and gore, torture and death along with murder but with all that there must be a clever crime enwind within it all. However all that would be nothing without the hero or heroine detective. The hero or heroine detective would unravel the crime mystery and discover the villain behind it and deliver them to justice. In ‘The Speckled Band’ Julia Stoner mysteriously dies in her sisters arms with little clue of what caused her death other than her dying words “The band … the speckled band.” Helen the sister of Julia contacts Sherlock Holmes by going to London and meeting him in person to discuss what had happened. By the end of their discussion, Sherlock Holmes’s services are employed and the story begins. Sherlock Holmes begins work on the case. His main clues were, a bell by the bed

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