TheAdventureOfTheNobleBachelor

Adventure of the Noble Bachelor: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle

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What did y'all think? 🤩

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IndoorDame I think this is the first time Sherlock and I agree that no crime was committed and everyone should run along home 😂 6mo

Librarybelle True, @IndoorDame ! 6mo

dabbe @IndoorDame Unless you want to charge Hatty Doran with bigamy! 😀 6mo

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IndoorDame @dabbe oooh, we totally could! But it seems petty since she didn‘t steal money from either husband (and running off with your own fortune is the sort of thing that calls for recriminations against marrying someone just for the money) 6mo

dabbe @IndoorDame Agree 💯. Hatty and Frank deserve each other. 😂 6mo

dabbe A couple of things I found to be a hoot in this one:
•When Lestrade is so proud of the clue he found, Holmes looks at it, and Lestrade SHRIEKS, “You're looking at the wrong side!“
•When Simon dares to say to Holmes that the cases he's solved so far were from the lower classes, Sherlock replies that he is “descending“ in Simon's case and that his last client “of the sort was a king.“ 6mo

kelli7990 I liked this story. 6mo

CogsOfEncouragement @dabbe Yes, Wrong side!?! - so funny. And when Simon is quite struck that he is not the highest client Holmes has aided. (HOW embarrassing lol)

I also thought is was silly for Simon to come for help from Holmes but then say “I am afraid it will take wiser heads than yours or mine“ and then amusing when Holmes says it was an honor of Simon to put his head on the level with Simon's.

@Librarybelle @IndoorDame 6mo

dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement I forgot about that last one, too! 😂 6mo

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dabbe

Adventure of the Noble Bachelor: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle

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IndoorDame I think you could title this one Everyone Behaving Badly. Watson and the hapless inspector seem to me to come off the best, and our society couple the worst, but no one‘s behavior quite reaches noble, and Holmes‘ staging of the reveal is a bit self serving and distasteful. 6mo

Librarybelle I‘m not sure anyone‘s behavior could be described as noble. St. Simon does remind me of the stereotypical nobility-type. 6mo

dabbe Hatty's dad was abominable: getting rich then forbidding his daughter to marry Frank because he had no money, but hey, let's marry a lord for his title! Frank doesn't think Hatty can stay faithful unless they secretly marry so he can “feel sure of her.“ Plus he has her go through with the marriage to Simon when he magically appears at her wedding? Why couldn't they cause a scene at the church? They certainly did later! ⬇️ (edited) 6mo

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dabbe Then Hatty wants to avoid everything and everybody: it's too “dreadful hard“ to tell Simon the truth, so let's just run away. Oh, and let's have Frank hide her wedding clothes because that'll solve everything. It takes SH to make them see the light, and then he thinks they can all get together for a happy supper? Yowza! 😂 6mo

dabbe And ... no one seems to care what happens to Flora Miller. Lestrade thinks she killed Hatty, so is she left to still rot in jail? And even though Simon behaved “nobly“ by shaking Hatty's hand, he had no problem flinging it with Flora--just as any noble bachelor would do, right? 6mo

Sace @dabbe Exactly! I need more story about Flora! 6mo

CogsOfEncouragement @IndoorDame @Librarybelle @dabbe @sace I was surprised Watson was callous, saying Simon was not very gracious, while Holmes understood the hurt of losing a bride (okay & fortune lol). I saw Holmes as thoughtful providing an expensive dinner to allow Simon to get some closure in a private space. With upscale bottles of wine, for him to ease his pain as he heard the tale w/Holmes & Watson serving as buffer. And Yes, was Flora justified? 6mo

IndoorDame @dabbe yes, I really hope someone gets her out of jail!!!!🤞🏼its maybe not strictly “nice” to crash your exes wedding to cause a scene, but I don‘t think we can justify the level punishment for her rudeness she‘d get for kidnapping and killing the new bride! 6mo

dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement Holmes does show his softer side in this one, doesn't he? Excellent point! 🤩 6mo

dabbe @IndoorDame @Sace I've read that Doyle was known for “forgetting“ plot lines throughout his stories, but in the same one? He totally leaves Flora out there to hang! 6mo

Sace Did Doyle forget or was she just a run of the mill danseuse not worthy of anything more? (I just wanted an excuse to use danseuse in a sentence 😂) 6mo

Aimeesue @Sace 😂😂😂 6mo

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dabbe

Adventure of the Noble Bachelor: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle

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What did y'all think? 🤩

Cuilin I really enjoyed it with its soap opera, telenovela vibe about it!! 6mo

IndoorDame @Cuilin same! 6mo

Librarybelle That‘s a good way of describing it, @Cuilin ! 6mo

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dabbe We have everyone pretty much behaving abominably and misreading one another, and then SH tries to have the proverbial happy ending like a Shakespearean comedy of errors, to a “soap opera,“ as @Cuilin stated so well. 6mo

CogsOfEncouragement How many times have I read a story, where the whole of the problem could have been solved with one conversation??? It was good of Holmes to pressure Hatty to face Simon. It was the decent thing to do. And as someone also pointed out on another post - Flora did nothing to Hatty. Lestrande needed proof of that though lol. @Cuilin @IndoorDame @Librarybelle @dabbe 6mo

kelli7990 I didn‘t laugh but I found one part of the story kind of funny. 6mo

dabbe @kelli7990 Would you like to share which one? 🤩 6mo

kelli7990 @dabbe I don‘t remember what scene it was. 6mo

dabbe @kelli7990 No problem. If you found it funny, that's what matters. 🤗 6mo

Cuilin @CogsOfEncouragement imagine if people would just talk and share information 🫢 6mo

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LitsyEvents

The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, P. James Macaluso

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Fabulous posts AGAIN, Sherlockians! Next up: “The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor! 🤩 Below is a study guide with summary (spoiler alert!) Discussion with @dabbe on 5/4.

Here's the link: https://bit.ly/44jfmFC

dabbe Thank you! 🤩🤩🤩 7mo

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dabbe

Adventure of the Noble Bachelor: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin @LitsyEvents
#TheAdventureOfTheNobleBachelor

Fabulous posts AGAIN, Sherlockians! Next up: “The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor! 🤩 Below is a study guide with summary (spoiler alert!) Discussion with @dabbe on 5/4.

Here's the link: https://bit.ly/44jfmFC

Have a lovely week! 💚💙💚