Question

summary of reigate squire

Answer 1

In The Adventure of the Reigate Squire Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would return to the standard approach of having the Sherlock Holmes case narrated from Dr Watson’s perspective; the two preceding stories, The Adventure of the Gloria Scott and The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual, had both been tales told by Holmes of early cases.

In the case, Conan Doyle introduces international scope to the work of Sherlock Holmes, and whilst previous cases had seen him work primarily in London and the Home Counties, at the start of The Adventure of the Reigate Squire the detective returns from the continent, after a case that had taken in three countries.

Holmes would end up in Reigate, Surrey, where the detective was supposed to be recuperating, but of course then has a case to solve. The case that is presented to Holmes is by no means the most difficult one, and all that the detective needs to do is look at the physical evidence. Whilst there is no great deductive work undertaken, the story does manage once again to show the superiority of Sherlock Holmes over the run of the mill policemen.