Sherlock Home And Watson's Suicide Chapter Summary

The start of the book is with Sherlock Homes, Watson, and Mrs. Weber talking about professor Max Webers condition of depression. Max 's condition started out with a tragic incodent with his father when they had a fight. A few weeks later his father died and Max felt responsible for his death. Soon after getting home from their trip to Spain he became ill with a fever. Dealing with this great incident on his mind. He went into a great sorrowful depression, following next he had a mental breakdown.
Back to the present time about four to five years pasted and nothing has really changed. They then get talking about a Social Progress conference that Mrs. Weber is attending with Max Weber and asks that Homes and Watson would go to make sure that Max doesn 't trying hurting himself or any others at the conference. Mrs. Weber goes on explaining how this conference could bring Max back to his academic life he had before his great illness. During all this Watson has a very interesting psychologist talk with Durkheim about Watson 's theory about the four kinds of suicide, Durkheims theory about the kinds of affects criminal behavior has on people at the scene of the crime.
By this time, according to Lestrade a group of sociologists went out for a private dinner. They had a great discussion, but after dinner Emile Durkheim …show more content…
Weber tried to explain in a humorous way, all the reasons for the stolen diamond and Durkheim been missing not being his fault. After a big argument with Weber Homes went to have a little chat with Freud, which Homes was very uneasy about doing. Talking to Freud trying to understand why Weber punched Durkheim kept leading to the death of Weber 's father. After having a rather long discussion with Simmel it was time to have a breakfast interview Vladimir Lenin, W E. B. Du Bois, and Mrs. Webb to talk about the events that happened at the