The Black Doctor

The Black Doctor.

Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Number of Pages : 7 pages

The Fact : The story tells about a dark skinned doctor named Aloysius Lana who presumed to be dead. He leaves alone, but then he engaged to a lady named Miss Morton. She has a brother named Arthur Morton. Then, Dr. Lana leaves her lady, and sells his house and practice. People started to thinking that he is going to abandoning his success as a doctor and leave the city. But then, he found dead in his room. The police accused Arthur as the murderer because he was in Dr.Lana’s house at the night he died. But Arthur swears the he didn’t kill him. He came there only to ask him why he leaves her sister. But he didn’t meet Dr. Lana at that time. In the court, Miss Morton says that her brother didn’t guilty. When she was being asked why, she said that Dr. Lana is still alive. The next day at court, Dr.Lana who was thought to be dead came to court. Everyone grasped, but then he explained everything. He said that the one who dead and look exactly like him is his twin brother whom they never meet for years. He died because of heart attack.

Personal Impression : The story is strange, but I like the mystery scene of this short story. The strangeness is, why should Dr. Lana leave his twin’s dead body in his room and he leaves the town? He was not the murderer anyway, so he doesn’t need to run away and make his fiancée’s brother be blamed and accused as a murderer.


By : Alvin Nouval