“The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare not call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement."
--Sherlock Holmes, “The Adventure of the
Six Napoleons”
Leigh: First, I need to apologize, dear readers. I have really
procrastinated on writing this initial email. Why? Because I've been putting
off reading the story, “The Adventure of the Six Napoleons”. Why? Because it's
boring. THERE, I'VE SAID IT! One of the stories from The Return of Sherlock Holmes is boring. Soooo booooring. I tried
listening to it through Librivox, I tried reading it myself, I tried osmosis
and sat on the book a while (not really but wouldn't that be cool if it could
work that way?). But I put it off and put it off and put it off because it is
such a boring story.
"But
Leigh! There's murder! And a crazy man! And Napoleon! How can it be
boring?" Because it's the same story as “The Adventure of the Blue
Carbuncle” which I believe we reviewed
around this time last year but instead of a carbuncle, it's pearls and instead
of a goose it's a bunch of busts of Napoleon. I didn't remember too much from
it, just that it was similar and then I started reading it. Once I got to the
murder, I remembered that it is the same story.
