“[W]omen are never to be entirely trusted-not the best of them” (Krumm 197). That is the viewpoint towards a women’s trust that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has given to Sherlock Holmes. Although Holmes never mentions that men are more trustworthy than woman, his words interprets that only women are the only ones that cannot be trusted. One of Doyle’s short stories that contradicts Holmes’s perspective in many ways is called “A Scandal in Bohemia” (“ASIB”). “ASIB” is a short story about Holmes tracking down Irene Adler, a woman who threatens the King of Bohemia with a photo of the King. In the end, he is defeated by Adler’s wits and intelligence. “ASIB” is an important piece to contradicting Holmes view on a woman because its components support the
