Silver Blaze - I forgot where I read it, but there was a comment on the story Silver Blaze that said that Silver Blaze was unbelievable and that half the characters were insane or delusional.
I can't agree.. but I'd just like to put that out there...
So.. about Silver Blaze, there were quite a few hints in the story that would have enabled us to solve it. According to wiki... almost all the cases of Sherlock Holmes are solvable by the reader... though I personally have never been able to solve it.. Maybe it's because I lack the imagination that Inspector Gregory lacks, too.
Anyways the hints like the curious incident with the dog (how he didn't bark), of the expensive dress which a horse trainer could not afford (which we wouldn't be able to understand since the finances of this period are out of our knowledge...), and the knife and curried mutton and the opium powder (again... I don't know much about how opium powder tastes... so that clue would have been unknown by me... )
However, apparently it is enough information. One of the struggles in us being able to solve the crime, too, though is becuase it is being told through the eyes of Watson. Though he can also give us information and observations that we might not have noticed, his obersations and perspectives can somewhat skew our views on it, too, making it difficult to see it for what it really is.
Should we be able to see into the mind of Holmes, I'm sure we'd be able to solve it along the way... however since we don't make the connections, it is quite out of our scope.
I want to try reading a story and see if I can solve it for myself... hmmm...
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