I read “A Scandal in Bohemia” today. Perhaps ‘read’ isn’t quite the right word — I was lucky enough to find an audio version provided by a volunteer on Librivox, which is essentially the Gutenberg Project of audiobooks. So, I listened to the story.

It fascinated me. It is not the first Sherlock Holmes story that I had ever read; that distinction belongs to The Hound of the Baskervilles, which I had read a very long time ago as a child. However, I am not very familiar with the canon works, having absorbed the Sherlock Holmes story through a number of adaptations and general pop culture. So, it was certainly a surprise when I found that many of these…