This page tells how and when I got interested in Sherlock Holmes. I hope you enjoy.
Well, I shall procceed to tell you what got me so interested in Sherlock Holmes.
It all started in the last weeks of my seventh year of school when we were reading a very inaccurate play-version of the famous story: The Hound of the Baskervilles. Well, at first, I never really liked reading that kind of mystery. I usually read Nancy Drew mysteries (that's a whole other story which I am also thinking about writting.), but, once we were almost finished with it and it was to the part where Holmes and Watson killed the Great Hound, I thought it was pretty neat.
So, after we got to listen to the same story on a cassette tape we got to watch the old black-and-white version video (it was the end of the year so we needed something to do). I went home and looked through my mother's vast collection of mystery and suspense books almost knowing that she would have something in there on Sherlock Holmes. Sure enough, I found two: "The Red-Headed League" and "Silver Blaze."
So, "The Red-Headed League" and "Silver Blaze"--in that order too--were the next stories that I ever read. Then, every Friday in the eighth grade, I would see a mentor. She and I would talk and go to the mall during school. And once, when we were at the mall, I told her that I am getting very interested in Sherlock Holmes. So, she took me to a bookstore in the mall and bought for me this book that had the first two novels and 36 short-stores, out of a total of 4 novels and 56 short stories. I was so thankful to her. And the next week we went to the mall again, like we usually did, and she bought for me volume two, which had the rest of the 60 total stories in it.
And that is how I was able to read all of the stories and once I read them, I started to write little reports about each of them. Then, after the eighth grade, during that summer off of school, I was looking through my WebTV features and I found something where it said I could make my own web page. So, I checked it out, but I couldn't figure out what I should put on it. After I thought it over, the next week, I started writting a report about Sherlock Holmes himself. When I was finished, I wondered what I should do with it. That's when I remembered the web page feature. So, I got straight to work making a web page devoted to the study of that great detective.
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