Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - Sir Arthur Canon Doyle
In four novels and fifty-six
short stories Sir Arthur Canon Doyle developed the characters Mr. Sherlock
Holmes and his trusted friend Dr. John Watson. The creation of brilliant sleuth
and his partner, who, although not possessing genius, stimulated it in his
friend, was a masterstroke. The adventures, memories, return, last bow, and
case book of Sherlock Holmes, as well as the four famous novels, are stories of
sheer delight. Readers of English literature may not have everlasting charm of
Holmesian characters and adventures, or even a famous resident of Baker Street , but
there is much in his methodological approach to the solving of criminal cases
that is of relevance to applied econometric modeling. Holmesian detection may
be interpreted as accommodating the relationship of theories, specification and
re-specification of theories, re-evaluation and reformulation of theories, and
finally reaching a solution to the problems at hand. With this mind, one can
apply reason to learn from the master of detection. This provides an outline of
Holmesian deduction through the various stages of deduction through the various
stages of accommodation, namely problem solving, theorizing before data,
examining the quality of data, the meaning of truth, reconciliation with data,
and testing of theories, Testing procedures, especially the use of diagnostic,
are the most common in research method used in common in research method used
in examining a number of specifications within a modeling cycle of
specification, estimation and evaluation. A diagnostic approach to the
evaluation or empirical approach models is outlined through testing the key
assumption, which defines the parameter space for purposes of inference.
Summery:
At about 4 o’clock on Christmas
morning a row broke out between the stranger, who was carrying a white goose
slung over his shoulder and a little knot of roughs. The stranger raised his
stick to defend himself and smashed the shop window behind him. On hearing the
broken sound Mr. Peterson, the honest police officer rushed to spot in order to
save the stranger from his assailants, but seeing an official-looking person in
uniform, dropped and white goose and his felt hat the stranger and his
assailants vanished amid the labyrinth of small streets of the town.
Mr. Peterson collected both goose
and the felt-hat on the spot and handed them to Mr. Sherlock Holmes and asked
him to find out any clue about the owner of the lost property to restore. The
old and patched hat did not produce any clue except the letters H.B. indicates
Henry Baker. But it is very difficult to establish the real owner of the hat
and the goose among several Henry Bakers of the town. Finally Holmes decided to
give an advertisement in the local newspapers about the lost property thinking
that if anybody may come to contact him and claim the property.
On 26th morning Mr.
Peterson came to Mr. Sherlock Holmes and showed him a small scintillating blue
diamond with the size of a small bean that was found in the crop of the goose.
Immediately, Sherlock Holmes recollected about the news published on 22nd
of December telling about the theft that had taken place in Hotel Cosmopolitan
and John Horner, the plumber, was accused in that connection. Further the news says that the blue carbuncle
belonged to the Countess of Morcar.
The next day when Dr. Watson
approached to Sherlock Holmes flat a person was waiting to meet Mr. Holmes in
order to recover his lost property, the goose and the hat advertised in the
newspapers. He did not show any particular interest in goose though he was told
that the goose was fried for the supper. Even he did not give any importance to
the leftovers of the goose like crop, feathers and legs etc. Holmes came to a
decision that the person who came to him in the name of Henry Baker is proved
his innocence in smuggling of the diamond.
Later, the stranger told that he had bought the goose in Alpha goose
club.
Sherlock Holmes learnt that Alpha
goose Club was supplied the same geese by Mr. Breckinridge. When he went to
Breckinridge, Holmes came to know the geese actually supplied by Mrs.Oakshott, 117 Brixton Road . As he is approaching Mrs.Oakshott to find out
the secret how the blue stone had come into the crop of a goose James
Ryder met Holmes on the way and asked about the white goose advertised in the
news paper. He told every thing about the blue gem how it was stolen by
Catherine Cusack, the maid servant to the Countess Morcar, and handed over him
to convert it into money. He went to his sister’s farm and put the stone into
the gullet of the white goose with cross-barred tail. He requested his sister,
Maggie to sell one fat goose for the Christmas but he had chosen another bird
with same plumage. After knowing that he had chosen a wrong bird he ran to his
sister’s farm and learnt that all the geese have been sold to Mrs. Oakshott. As
he ran to Oakshott she sold them Breckinridge and Breckinridge to Alpha Club.
From Alpha Club, Henry Baker had bought the goose with out knowledge of the gem
within its crop. Finally Holmes decided
that John Horner, the plumber, is innocent in this connection of the theft that
had occurred in the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Plainly James Ryder was asked to get
out of the Holmes’ place because it was the season of excuse.
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