I said early that "A Study in Scarlet" was one of the few novels where there wasn't enough information for the readers to figure out the villains and ect. ahead of time... I feel a little along the same lines with the Italian Secretary - but that might have been my lack of understanding of the plot and etc.... I felt it just jumped from one thing to another....
But... I wonder now why Doyle changed everything. We'll... In a Study in Scarlet, by leaving us all out of the picture including especially the police... we are further amazed by his deducing abiltiy.. Not only is he able to provide a name and a motivation and unfoil everything, he captures the actual person. Pretty amazing if you ask me.. while everyone else is still confused about this part of the investigation or get a false lead and false person... Holmes has it all figured out in his head and is already in the process of capturing the person... and well ahead of the police even starting to follow thier false lead...
So that's, like what I said earlier... the reason for him leaving us out of the loop always... Not to the extreme of his first short story though -since that probably would have gotten annoying.... For the reader to not knwo enough or even know the name of the villain adn then have him captured.
Just a thought.
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