Dr. Watson If you won't, I will for you". Holmes suavely responds: "You may do what you like, Doctor". Therefore, the story is presented as "a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson", and most other stories of the series share this by implication. In the first chapter of "The Sign of Four", Holmes comments on Watson's first effort as a biographer: "I glanced over it. Honestly, I cannot congratulate you upon it. Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism...
S. J. Watson Media interest in "Before I Go to Sleep" was considerable and Watson himself was the subject of a profile in the "Sunday Times" before its UK publication and "The Wall Street Journal" before its US publication. Watson has been profiled by Bookseller+Publisher and has also appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row being interviewed by Kirsty Lang. He has also been interviewed by Simon Mayo when "Before I Go to Sleep" was chosen as his bookclub book of the month. S. J. Watson Steve "S. J." Watson (born 1971) is an English writer. He debuted in 2011 with the thriller