The Town Of Deadly Mormon Ninja In Sherlock Holmes

LOVED this! Old novels are so weird, where they're just like: BEHOLD! I have ceased your story to tell you a story and/or make you read this Wikipedia article.

Emily C. A. Snyder

OH, you think the Murder Mormon Ninjas was weird? Just wait until The Valley of Fear, with the Mafia Unions and Pinkerton Deep Spy!

Felicia Angel

I first read this story when I was a kid, before I really knew anything about Mormons, so nothing in it struck me as strange. Now that you've pointed it out, it's hilariously odd.

EAH

For me, the worst of them was in "The Valley of Fear" -- in part because it did what it did to Unions what "A Study in Scarlet' did for Mormons.

Salvatore Cucinotta

AHHHH! As a lifelong Sherlock Holmes fan who dressed as Holmes for Halloween when I was a kid (see icon), to be able to see my name in the credits for the first time ON A SHERLOCK HOLMES VIDEO?? Beyond stoked! I remember reading this story as a kid, too. It's surreal to recognize the names and conjure up the same mental pictures thirty years later. What a wonderful way to kick off a patronage. <3 EDIT: It occurs to me, my name was in the credits on the last video, too! This is just the first time I remembered to watch for it.

E. T. Young

Omg, as someone who is sort of tangentially LDS this is the most hilarious thing I've heard heard of. I've never actually read the Sherlock Holmes books.

The BBC did some great radio dramas based on brief mentions of cases from the original Sherlock Holmes stories. Clive Merrison as Holmes and Andrew Sachs as Watson. They're well worth a listen, they capture both characters pretty well. My favourite is the Yellow Face because of the twist at the end.

Eilidh Macleod

After the week I’ve had - thank you for this.

Erica Borgers

I was about to comment that the segue isn't quite non-diagetic as Watson is given a written account by Hope - but then I realized that I had Study in Scarlet confused with another of the novels, The Valley of Fear. That novel also has a second part, set in the US, that provides backstory for people involved in the murder case and also kind of feels like two short stories packaged together as a novel.

I feel that the novels are all well and good, but the short story format is where Sherlock Holmes shines. The Hound of The Baskevilles is perhaps the best of the novels, but Sherlock has to be kept at arm''s length to ensure he doesn't just solve everything in the first act. The others are all very strange for their own reasons.

Matthew Foweraker

The Sherlock Holmes novels, apart from The Hound of the Baskervilles (and Holmes is missing for half of that book) all have almost half the book as a separate back story, which is a bit weird when you consider how intense the short stories are. A Study in Scarlett tackles the difficult subject of taking justice into your own hands. If you examine Holmes books more closely many of them are closer to horror and thriller genres than standard detective tales.

Eustacia Vye

I like the short stories a lot more the books all have super weird parts that don't really make a lot of sense to me. It felt like I was reading a completely different book. The short stories are written better and I love them (my favourites are the solitary cyclist and scandal in bohemia).

That was a very jarring second half, which surprised me when I read the book.

WillRigby

I woke up from a horrific nightmare and this was waiting for me in my email--exactly what I needed. :) I read Study in Scarlet when I was ten years old and it was a *surreal* experience!

Julia Krystosek

Mormon Kombat!! 😂 Great video Dom.