The Dying Detective

Watson didn’t visit Holmes for a while, but when he comes to see him, Mrs. Hudson the maid, tells him that Holmes has been sick for 3 days, and hasn’t eaten anything. When he tried to touch him, Holmes aggressively yelled at him that he had something contagious. Holmes said to Watson that he got it in a ship while working on a case. Watson tried to grab a tobacco box to see if that had something to do with him. But Holmes yelled at him not to open it. Watson tells Holmes that he needed a doctor, because it was serious and his life was at risk, and Sherlock said Mr. Culverton Smith could help him and he gave him his address.

Watson found Smith and told him that Sherlock Holmes was very sick by a weird disease, without knowing that it had been planned. Culverton Smith said he was going to see him. When he came, Holmes demanded Watson to hide on the closet to hear the conversation. When Holmes was arguing with Mr. Smith, it is revealed that Dr. Smith killed his nephew, and had sent the same virus to Holmes in a box, because he was afraid that Holmes could find out the truth. He had not touched it, and since he knew the symptoms, he was only pretending to make him confess his crime in front of witnesses. Smith gets arrested, and Holmes reveals that he was fasting for more than 3 days to look really sick.

  

I would have liked that the story would be more adventurous, but I liked that at the end Holmes puts an end to Dr. Culverton Smith, because he was a bad person. He had killed his  nephew and I think he was doing some sort of human experimentation which is something really bad, because it could kill or change a person`s life forever. I liked that Sherlock Holmes faked being sick which is a brilliant idea to make him confess in front of witnesses in order to put an end to a mad doctor.