THE MAP:

• THE SUMMARY
• THE CHARACTERS
• TIME AND PLACES
• OPINIONS

THE MAP:

• THE SUMMARY
• THE CHARACTERS
• TIME AND PLACES
• OPINIONS

                                            THE SUMMERY

The story begins with a married Watson visiting Holmes. 

While they're talking,a masked visitor enters in the room

claiming to be Count Kramm, an agent for a wealthy

client who wants to be unknown. Holmes quickly

identifies the man as Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein,Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein and the hereditary King of Bohemia. 

The king is engaged to a Scandinavian princess, but he's worried about his previous relatioship with the American opera singer Irene Adler. During that period,a photo of the two was taken;now the king is worried about his fiancee’s strict family and wants to have the picture back. The problem is that Irene refuses to return it so that the king requests Holmes' help.

The next morning Watson visits Irene’s apartment disguised as a drunken,out of work groom. Some of the stablemen inform him that she frequents a gentleman called Godfrey Norton of the Inner Temple. Norton visits her on this particular day, and then he takes a cab to a church. A little while later Irene leaves, heading to the same place. Holmes follows them and then accidentally he becomes the witness to their marriage. Then they all go their separate ways after the small ceremony. Watson meanwhile is waiting for Holmes at his apartment and when he arrives they agree to be part of a plan to discover where Irene has hidden the picture. Watson dresses as a clergyman, and both of them head back to Irene’s apartment. A group of men is standing on the street, and when she arrives, they fight over who will get to help her. Holmes rushes over to protect her and seems to be hurt in the scuffle.

Irene takes him into her apartment, where he's laid on the couch to recover. At a prearranged signal, Watson tosses a smoke rocket into the apartment and shouts “fire!”.

Holmes tells Watson later that he saw Irene rush to the photograph, when she thought the building might be destroyed. Holmes now knows its hiding place and that he will return later. At that moment, the two men are bid goodnight by a familiar-sounding youth, who slips away in the crowd. Holmes tells the king of his findings, but when he goes to retrieve the photograph, Irene’s elderly maidservant tells them that Irene has left hastily for the train station. Instead of THE photograph,Holmes finds only a photograph of her in an evening dress, and a letter addressed to him.

In the letter she explains that she was the voice from the previous night, and congratulates him on doing such a good job fooling her with his

disguises.

The king is impressed with this result and asks Holmes how he wishes to be paid.

Holmes refuses any further payment for the job, and simply asks the king for the photo that Irene Adler left behind. From that moment  Irene Adler is “the woman”, one of the few who were able to match,for the intellect,with Sherlock Holmes.

                                        THE CHARACTERS

The main two characters of the story are Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr.Watson. They are old-times friends and they know each other very well, Watson describes Holmes as a man with a 'Bohemian soul,' unconventional and out of touch with society,"buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature." Doyle spends an inordinate amount of time establishing Holmes as a master of disguise and with a superior intellect. For example, in the process of uncovering the mystery of an anonymous letter, Holmes and Watson's methods for analysis differ. Holmes says,"You see, but you do not observe."

The old-times friends Sherlock and Watson discussing.

Here, Holmes demonstrates his method of deduction, extrapolating from the details of the letter, from the handwriting to the type of paper, with the intention of figuring out who might have sent it.

While Watson seems shier and at the same time less perceptive he admires Sherlock as nobody else and he likes to make a good impression because he doesn't want to disappoint him.

He'd like to be like his partner. 

From what we know he's engaged and now he's back at his civil profession even if the case wants him next to his friend for this mystery. 

Dr. Watson is even the narrator of the story,that consequently is seen from his eyes.