Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Boscombe Pool, Level 3, Vol. 3 Book

This was kind of an 'average' Sherlock Holmes mystery, if there is such a thing. The case of a young man who finds his father dead, and is then blamed for the murder. There are clues a'plenty leading to other suspects, but the forensic science of this time was just so poor, they're overlooked or dismissed.

I did find it interesting that Holmes is conducting his own, somewhat modern forensic investigation. Lying on the ground. Searching the whole area for minute clues. Finding bits of things here and there that the local authorities had already trampled over. (He expresses very modern disgust at the disrespect shown the crime scene, something I've heard in many a modern, fictional book, and in film, and in real life, too.) Quite quickly Holmes figures out who did what to whom and why, but it's an altogether slow-moving story.

Not one to be missed, though, by the true Holmesian fan.