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A Scandal in Bohemia and Other Stories
Paperback, 178 pages
Published
2011
by Penguin
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I first became acquainted with Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson when I was 12. I was also reading Agatha
Christie at the same time but soon worked out that it was usually the most unlikely person who was the villain and I haven’t re-read them lately. However, Endless Night remains one of my favourites as it’s so creepy and strange.
This book was part of a Radio Times tie-in with the recent Sherlock series on TV. Collect 3 tokens or send $2.99 and 3 books were yours. I’ve never owned a volume of Sherl...more
Christie at the same time but soon worked out that it was usually the most unlikely person who was the villain and I haven’t re-read them lately. However, Endless Night remains one of my favourites as it’s so creepy and strange.
This book was part of a Radio Times tie-in with the recent Sherlock series on TV. Collect 3 tokens or send $2.99 and 3 books were yours. I’ve never owned a volume of Sherl...more
Having enjoyed the TV adaptations which were made in the 80s it's a little surprising that I never got around to reading the Sherlock Holmes stories. So when the Radio Times magazine was giving away a set of books I jumped at the chance. I found the stories in this particular book to be extremely readable. Considering they were written so long ago I expected to be tripping up over archaic words every two minutes, but that wasn't the case. I especially appreciated how the stories are about variou...more
These six short stories about Sherlock Holmes each run about thirty pages, which isn’t really enough time to set up a mystery and throw a lot of red herrings at you, but what the author does instead is give you a long backstory, do a little investigating, and then give you the hows and wheres of it all.
This really shouldn’t work. Every writer has had it drilled into them a million times: Show, don’t tell. Yet, tell is exactly what these stories do. We get a long exposition dump told by the clien...more
This really shouldn’t work. Every writer has had it drilled into them a million times: Show, don’t tell. Yet, tell is exactly what these stories do. We get a long exposition dump told by the clien...more
My first experience of Conan Doyle! An interesting selection of shorts stories, definitely looking forward to reading more.
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Arthur Conan Doyle was born the third of ten siblings on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was born in England of Irish descent, and his mother, born Mary Foley, was Irish. They were married in 1855.
Although he is now referred to as "Conan Doyle", the origin of this compound surname (if that is how he meant it to be understood) is uncertain. His baptism record...more
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Although he is now referred to as "Conan Doyle", the origin of this compound surname (if that is how he meant it to be understood) is uncertain. His baptism record...more
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