Sherlock Holmes And The Mystery Of Boscombe Pool

This is a really good mystery book. It is one of many Sherlock Holmes’s books. It is a typical murder case where Sherlock Holmes has to find out who is the murderer and to see if the suspect is guilty or innocent. He is almost always accompanied by his faithful companion Mr. Watson.
Sherlock Holmes invites Dr. Watson to help him out with a murder case in Ross. They discuss about the case in thetrain while they are traveling to the murder site. Sherlock tells him everything that he has found about the murder and the suspect. The person that was murdered is Mr. McCarthy and the suspect is his son James McCarthy which is already in jail.

A lot of neighbors gave their testimony affirming that they saw James walking behind his father while he was going to the Boscombe pool. They alsoassure that James had a shotgun under his arm while he was after his dad. One of the witnesses said that James started arguing with his father beside the pool and that Mr. McCarthy was using really strong language against his son. Then James headed to the witnesses house to tell them that his father had been murdered and was lying dead besides de Boscombe pool. Mr. McCarthy’s head was full of woundsas if someone hit him with something really hard and finally bled to death.

James McCarthy’s friend Miss Turner ordered the local investigator to call Sherlock Holmes to help in the case so he could declare James innocent. Miss Turner is a really good friend of James and has been his neighbor for a really long time. Mr. McCarthy had wanted his son to marry Miss Turner but her father never agreedin that marriage.

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 thinks that this is a clear case, but Sherlock think not.When he was something about 100 yards from Boscombe Pool he heard someone calling “Cooee.” It was call that both uses for calling on each other. He started running his way.
When he spot his father he look very surprised to see his son and look very angry. He asked him “What are you doing here?” Mr. James explained his father. Mr. James and his father became angry and James wanted to hit hisfather, but he leave. When he went back home after few steps he heard a terrible scream, so he ran back to the Pool again. He found his father lying on the ground. He was dying. He dropped his gun and takes his father, but he die almost immediately.

Almost dead Charles has said something like “a rat,” but James thinks that his father doesn’t know what he is saying. James has said that he spots adark jacket lying on the ground, but when he looks again it was gone.

When Sherlock and Dr.Watson finally came to the Ross detective Lestrade was already there and waiting for him on the platform.

As he was speaking a young lady, Miss Turner, hurried into the room. She said that James is innocent. She said that James and his father have many quarrels about me. McCarthy wanted to getmarried, but old Turner no. Sherlock have ask that if he can come tomorrow, but young lady said no because her father is ill for long time and it look seriously.

At the evening Dr.Watson was thinking about the case and he asked for newspaper, because he wanted to know something more about those wounds on back of McCarthy head. The wounds were in a group on the left side of back of the head....