Project

Sherlock Holmes And
The Mystery of the Boscombe Pool
By Arthur Conan Doyle














Daniel Kapusta
I.C 2001/2002
Characters: Sherlock Holmes - detective (main character)
Dr.Watson - doctor, friend of Sherlock
Charles McCarthy - victim
Mr. James McCarthy - suspect Mr. John Turner - owner of the farm (rich
man)



It all happened in Boscombe Valley. Someone murdered Charles McCarthy. Two different people spotted Charles. He was going to Boscombe Pool. Few minutes after him was spotted his son with a gun going his way to Boscombe Pool. Those two have met near Boscombe Lake between trees. A young girl saw him. They were very angry and were yelling on each other. James Have lift his hand and ready to hit his father. That girl felt, so she ran because he was frightened. When she got home have told her mother everything what she saw. Just as she was speaking young McCarthy came running up to their house. He said that his father is dead near Boscombe Pool. His hand was red with blood. When they found Charles body he have many wounds on back of his head. They were made by something thick and heavy, like a wooden part of Mr James gun. His gun was founded not very far from dead body. The police have held young man for questioning and arrested him. Everything pointed that young man is guilty.
Miss Turner, daughter of Mr James Turner, believed that Mr James is innocent. She ask detective Lesterade to take a look on the case. Lestrade ask Sherlock for help and he agreed. Sherlock was hurry to get to the Boscombe Pool first because Sherlock knows that Lestrade is not a good detective and Sherlock was afraid that he miss something and make a wrong end. Dr.Watson think that this is a clear case, but Sherlock think not.
Sherlock gave Dr.Watson a newspaper and read the story that Mr James has told. He said that he was away from home for three days. He becomes only last Monday in the morning. His father was not at home. A servant told him that he was in Ross. After some time he looked out of the window because he heard wheels of a carriage. He saw his father moving fast to away from house. He did not know where he was going. He took his gun and went for a walk and shoots some birds on the other side of Boscombe Pool. He have passed William Crowder, servant of Mr Turner. He doesn’t know that his father is a front of him.