Why do you think that Holmes and Watson are clever spies? Justify providing the evidence from Act 1 Scene 3 .

In these first few chapters, though, we see the classic duo of Holmes and Watson. Watson narrates the tale (though Doyle considered not making him the narrator) and, as per usual for the Holmes canon, readers fashion of a portrait of the famous detective through the eyes of his friend. Holmes comes across as relaxed, confident, ever sagacious, and sharp; he welcomes the new mystery and seems energized and vitalized by it. Critic Anthony Boucher (quoted in The Annotated Sherlock Holmes) says “this is a ripe, mature Holmes, free from external eccentricities…Here is Holmes in the perfect thinking mind, in crypt-analysis, in observation, in deduction…Holmes [is] at his most completely charming…There is more overt humor here than is usual…there is a certain fey quality.”

Holmes and Watson are inseparable. They are intertwined.Remove one the mystery remains unsolved. Watson serves as a foil tp Holmes.