The Boscombe Valley Mystery Essays

TITLE There are are many detectives in the world but two outstanding investigators, in reality, never existed. Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie respectively, are two of the most phenomenal fictional detectives, as well as the most well-known. They have many different qualities, but they are both very successful and accomplished. There are several aspects of the character and personality of these two men that make them the detectives that they

The story begins with the King of Bohemia visiting one of the private detectives in the town known as Sherlock Holmes. The King was engaged and was to get married, but there was a possibility of exposure of his earlier romantic affair with Irene Adler. Adler had prepared to expose the King using the picture which she had taken with him while in the affair. All the techniques employed by the King to access the photo failed, and that was the reason he decided to use the services of Sherlock Holmes