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Book Analysis: A Scandal in Bohemia
“A scandal in Bohemia” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Plot Analysis:

1. The setting is in Bohemia on the 20th of March 1888. Also, Sherlock Holmes office is on Baker Street.

2. The main character is Sherlock Holmes.

3. The two supporting characters are Irene Adler and the hereditary king of Bohemia, Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormsetin.

4. The problem facing Sherlock Holmes was that he had to find the picture of the prince. This photograph was being used by Irene Adler to threaten the soon to be king’s wedding.

5. The first event in the rising action was when the Kinf came to Sherlock Holmes asking for help. Second was when Holmes had come back to his own office. He told Dr. Watson all about how he had been following Irene Adler around, in disguise, and had found she had been with a man as well. Holmes then proceeded to say that before he knew it, he had ended up in a church and was asked by Adler to be a witness to her and the man’s wedding. The last event in the rising action was when Holmes asked Dr. Watson if he could help him with a plan that could possibly get them arrested. After accepting the task, Watson was told that his only job was to not interfere and stand near the open window of Irene Adler’s house. When Holmes was to raise his hand, Dr. Watson was to cry, “fire!”, throw a smoke-rocket into Irene’s living room, and meet Sherlock at the corner of the street.

6. The climax of the story happens at Irene Adler’s house. When Adler first arrived at her street, several men broke out into a fight because they wanted her money. Sherlock Holmes rushed over to seem as if he was going to help the woman but then stopped, yelled, and fell to the ground with “blood” covering his face. As a result of this event, the people who had not been in the fight but had seen it rushed over and carried him into Irene Adler’s home. When they had positioned him on the couch, he had someone open the window. Then, at the right time, he lifted

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