The culprits in both stories are men of ill repute, which can be construed to indicate to the author’s allusion to personality characterization.
The Adventures of the Blue Carbuncle, on the other hand, illustrates Holmes’s masterly of people psychology when he determines the real culprits behind the theft of the gem. The client’s red-hair can be construed to represent the author’s allusion to the story’s topic and its relevance to the story’s plot. This is a masterful display of the author’s authority in the subject of suspense building. This makes the reader wonder of what significance the client’s hair has to do with a local pawn broker in London. The Adventures of the Red-Headed league is characterized by the building of suspense on the part of the reader when Holmes and Watson draw the reader’s attention to their client’s red hair (Doyle 24). The subtle differences in the two stories help the reader discern and understand the interesting character of Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes in both stories is not overly revealing to the reader in terms of revealing his techniques of crime solving. Watson helps develop a heightened sense of mystery.
The author develops the plot of the two stories differently in the sense that the use of a second person narration through Dr. The contrasting aspect about the two adventures is that they lead to different outcomes that are not in the reader’s expectation. Sherlock Holmes: The Red-Headed League and the Blue Carbuncle The Adventures of the Red-Headed League and The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle are stories filled with suspense from the beginning.
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