셜록 홈즈 - 3

  "My stepfather keeps business papers in there," said Helen.

  "Does he keep a cat in there too?" asked Holmes. "Look!" There was some milk on a plate on top of the box. "Now, Miss Stoner," he said, "I think your life is in danger. Tonight my friend Watson and I must spend the night in your sister's room, where you are sleeping at the moment."

  Helen Stoner and I looked at him in surprise.

  "Yes, we must," he went on. "We'll take a room in a hotel in the village. When your stepfather goes to bed, put a light in your sister's bedroom window and leave it open. Then go into your old room and we'll get into your sister's room through the window. We'll wait for the sound of the whistle and the falling metal."

 

조금 깁니다. 이제 여러분이 셜록 홈즈라는 탐정이 되어야 합니다. 탐정이 된 기분으로 사건을 분석해 보시길 바랍니다. 추리소설이니 논리적인 흐름이 중요하겠죠. 그 논리적인 흐름을 독자들에게 쉽게 풀어내야 합니다. 논리의 흐름도 어려운데, 글까지 복잡하면 독자들이 이중으로 혼란스러워, 읽다 중도에 책 내팽개치겠죠. ㅎㅎㅎ 따라서 간결명료한 글이 필수겠죠! (선생님이 실수해서 문장을 빼먹었네요. 보충했으니 참고하세요.)