-Okay, the first thing i noticed when i picked up this book was that it was about the size of a Sherlock Holmes short story. The entire book was a staggering 92 pages long and took me the greater part of two hours (maybe) to finish.
-Okay so the detectives. There is a detective in this story called Mr. Cuff. However, he is different from Holmes is several respects.
1. Cuff is not the protagonist of this story but only a minor character.
2. Cuff's input in this story is fundamental but is not the main thing that makes the case come together.
3. Cuff, at one point of the story, makes a totally wrong assertion. Unlike Holmes who does not preempt himself but retains all final assertions till the end, Cuff openly declares that the diamond was not actually stolen and that by the end this fact would reveal itself to be true. This, unfortunately, is totally false since the diamond was stolen.
4. Also, Cuff constantly reveals his discoveries during his investigation, unlike Holmes.
However, there are some similarities;
1. Cuff also has that aura of mystery about him and respect as an authoritative sleuth figure that Holmes possesses.
2.Cuff is English too. He lives in London.
In conclusion, Cuff bears a few similarities to Holmes just so as to fit into the stereotype of the awesome sleuth but he really isn't as good at the job and features in less than a quarter of the book.
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Okay so this, i liked your strategy a lot, of creating a direct comparsion between the two. And i think that in looking at your overall topic, this is interesting because it seems that there isn't a lot of simialrites in the two other than thier role, they both act the same, in that they have the same job, and as a reader you have teh same expectations of them-that they will solve or greatly contribute to the case. However I think in looking at his faults and how they compare to Holmes you can probally discover a lot about both the books, to me it kind of shows that Holmes is like this ultimate standard of what is to be a sleuth.
For me, Cuff almost seems to be kind of like a dissapointment, just becuase he falls short of the standards set by Holmes. His methods don't seem as effective or i guess sleuthy enough to me now after reading abut Holmes, as if he just completly falls short of what i wanted. I don't know if it did for you, but if it did, it might be worthwhile to look at how Holmes had created this expectation of the sleuth story an dhow Cuff has added any dimension to that image/expectaion.
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