My wife and I were having breakfast one morning when a note arrived from Sherlock holmes. it said : Are you free for two days? I have just received a message from the West of England. I am going to work on the Boscombe Lake mystery. Will you come with me? The train leaves Paddington Station at 11.15.
are you going,dear? asked my wife
I don't know. I'm quite busy at the moment
Oh,Dr. Anstruther will do your work. you look tired and a change will be good for you
Very well. I'll go. But I shall have to pack now. The train leaves in half an hour.
Twenty-five minutes later, I arrived at Peddington Station Holmes was waiting for me
I'm happy that you could come. Watson, he said. I shall need your help
We got into the train. Holmes was carrying some newspapers. He began to read them and to make notes. Suddenly he asked, Have you read about Boscombe Lake, Watson? No. I was just going to read about it when your note arrived.
The London newspapers are full of it. I have just read them all. The problem seems easy to solve, but it is probably very difficult.
Please explain, Holmes, I said How can it be easy and difficult at the same time?
The police think that there is no mystery. A man is dead. They say that his son killed him.
Did his son kill him?
I don't know. We are going to Boscombe Lake to find out. It's a country area. There are a few villages and some farms. the largest farm belongs to a man called John Turner. He is quite rich.