What Are Sherlock Holmes Tough Decisions

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Sherlock Holmes Have you ever had a tough decision you had to make? Well Sherlock Holmes sure did. He had to choose either to take the criminals to jail for being thieves or not take them and save their souls. In my opinion, Sherlock Holmes positively did the right thing. In the first place, Plumer, and Mr. Honer were set free with their family. Also if Plumer and Mr. Honer went to jail Plumer’s family and Mr. Honer would be devastated, not only Pumer and Mr. Honer’s family but them-self’s. In the second place, society would always see them as criminals. So Plumer and Mr. Honer would have no friends because people would think their criminals, and people are probably going to think Mr. Honer and Plumer are going to steel something

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