1. Do you think this a good detective story? What makes it better than
the cheap ones you perhaps have bought at the news stands?
2. What do you know about Sherlock Holmes? (See biographical sketch of
Conan Doyle.)
3. Where did the most thrilling moment come? Was this the place where
you saw how the story was going to turn out? What might you call this
point?
4. Relate a mystery from real life that you have heard of or read in a
newspaper that is just as hard to find out about as those Conan Doyle
explains in his stories.
5. When Sherlock Holmes explains how he knew things about people, as,
for instance, how he knew that Wilson was a Freemason, does it all seem
simple enough to you? Why then are there not more good Sherlock
Holmeses?