Essay Comparing Holmes And The Scandal In Bohemia By Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sometimes authors write multiples stories to project different meaning and message to the audience. In this case the author Arthur Conan Doyle’s use similar characteristics from both stories but he applied into both stories in different ways. Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The purloined Letter,” the main problem is that a letter has been stolen from Minister D from royal apartments. Dupin used his own logical thinking to find the letter while the policies investigated every details of Minister’s D’s house, they yet failed to find the letter. In the other hand, “The scandal in Bohemia” by Arthur Conan Doyle illustrates how Holmes the main character played the role of detective to find the missing photography that belongs to the King in Bohemia. The

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