So I started The Execution of Sherlock Holmes by Donald Thomas. It contains five short stories and this is the book written by a contemporary author.
It starts off with Holmes breaking into a house. However, their plan goes astray when the owner comes in and Watson and Holmes have to hide behind curtains. A lady visits the man and kills him. Holmes grabs the pistol and runs off with Watson. They meet two guards and shoot the pistol and Holmes just tosses the pistol. He doesn't keep it and is not worried that the police can trace it back to him. Now this is very unlike Holmes and I guess he wasn't thinking when he was faced with death.
Furthermore, this book portrays Holmes as a hopeless and helpless man because he ends up in jail and is about to be condemned to death. The police (I don't think it really is the police, it might be his enemies that are doing this) drug him. They use a drug that wipes away his short term memory. They do this every night and they pin him down and chain him to the bed. Each day he is brought to court and he feels very out of it. Each night he tries to find a way to break out and to figure out who the people are in court but he worries that he'll forget because of the drug. This is a dark and maybe more older Holmes. He seems useless because he's locked up and his food is cut for him. He's in a place where his intuition isn't that much of a help to him. I guess however he comes out of this situation will show what he truly is made of. I can only wonder how he will actually escape his death or will he finally die?
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I do not think he will die as of yet, in fact I think this is going to elevate him to a higher level. This will show that Holmes will be able to get through anything and everything with a struggle, but in the end will be successful. I always though drugs were Holmes secret position haha, it would like make him a better detective every time he consumed them, when I know in reality that not possible at all, but I just think that no, Holmes can not die now. He'll get out of this as a greater detective.
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