Me reading through Sherlock Holmes library for the first time (with the exception of hound of the Baskerville’s which I’ve read before): Strange. The mystery has been resolved but there’s still a good chunk of the book left
The villain: As you’ve bested me, mister Holmes and these constables shall surely take me to the scaffold, please let me tell you my humble life story in great detail.
"Classic villain monologue,” right? It’s a trope, but it adds to the drama. Plus, it gives Sherlock a chance to show off his brilliant deductions one last time. It’s all about the suspense, and I think it works brilliantly.
Yeah it’s fairly good. I think it works better in A study in Scarlet than in The Sign Of Four. But then A Study on Scarlet has more of a standard detective structure where you have to piece together the clues of the crime whereas The Sign Of Four seems less interested in having a puzzle to solve and more excited in having a chase.
These are adventures, most of the stories are a wild ride as Sherlock does his thing. You should read The Red-Headed League. That one has a silly puzzle that you could figure out
The Sign of Four was my least favorite out of all his novels for that reason. I do love the exposition dumps though.