Books like The Boscombe Valley Mystery

Sherlock Holmes and his faithful sidekick Dr. Watson leave London to go to the rural Boscombe Valley in Herefordshire. Charles McCarthy has been murdered in the woods by a pool, and his adult son James--who had been arguing violently with his father minutes before--was covered with his father's blood. McCarthy was the tenant of another, more wealthy former Australian, John Turner, and the men had known each other in Australia. To thicken the plot, McCarthy was pushing his son to marry Turner's daughter but James was refusing (that's what the argument was about), and Turner didn't want his daughter to marry James either ... though the daughter (who hired Lestrade to help exonerate James) seems to be on board with the idea.The evidence looks damning and the son has already been convicted in the court of public opinion, but you can trust Sherlock Holmes to get to the truth of the matter. Like most of these short stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes collection so far, I didn't found the mystery terribly mysterious. I figured out who the murderer was, but not why it happened -- though really there's no way to figure out why without certain facts that you find out only after the identity of the murderer is disclosed. Once again we see that Doyle's version of Sherlock has a bit of a soft spot. Next up: The Five Orange Pips.