The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle carries plenty of themes about family, marriage and other related social issues. Several stories take the message of husbands and wives keeping secrets from each other. The story The man with the twisted lip mentions of a respectable man named Mr. Neville St. Clair who hid from his wife the secret that he used to visit an opium den. When Mrs. Clair had spotted her secretive husband at an opium den, she approached it but upon reaching the den (Doyle). In the story The Adventure of the Second Stain Continue reading...