Sherlock Holmes - Skript Edition - Band 02 - Der blaue Karfunkel

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes #7

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Daniela Wakonigg, Sebastian Pobot (Editor)

"Sherlock Holmes" zum Nachlesen: als Skript-Edition zum Hörspiel, von der Autorin kommentiert - mit allen Regieanweisungen, Anekdoten, Vergleichen zum Original. Erlebt die legendären "Sherlock Holmes"-Hörspiele völlig neu!

Band 02 behandelt "Der blaue Karfunkel": Der Hotelportier Peterson wird nach einer Weihnachtsfeier auf offener Straße Zeuge eines Überfalls. Durch sein Einschreiten ergreifen alle Beteiligten die Flucht. Das Opfer des Überfalls hat einen abgewetzten Filzhut und eine Weihnachtsgans zurückgelassen. Peterson bringt beides zu Sherlock Holmes in die Baker Street 221 b ...

Daniela Wakonigg ist seit ihrer Kindheit ein begeisterter Sherlock-Holmes-Fan. Dass ihre Hörspiel-Karriere ausgerechnet mit dem Meisterdetektiv begann, erfüllt sie noch heute mit großer Freude und Demut. Wenn sie nicht gerade auf den Spuren von Sherlock Holmes wandelt, arbeitet Daniela Wakonigg als Hörspiel-Autorin und -Regisseurin sowie als Journalistin in Print und Hörfunk.

Das E-Book zum Hörspiel – ein Muss für alle Fans und Hörspiel-Enthusiasten!

Genres: Mystery, Classics, Fiction, Short Stories, Audiobook, Crime, Christmas

64 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1892

About the author

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.

Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.

Reviews

[karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

WELCOME TO DECEMBER PROJECT!

last year, i carved out my own short story advent calendar as my project for december, and it was so much fun i decided to do it again this year! so, each day during the month of december, i will be reading a short story and doing the barest minimum of a review because ain't no one got time for that and i'm already so far behind in all the things. however, i will be posting story links in case anyone wants to read the stories themselves and show off how maybe someone could have time for that.

here is a link to the first story in last year's project,

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

which in turn links to the whole monthlong project, in case you wanna do some free short story reading of your own! links to the stories in this year's advent-ure will be at the end of each review.

enjoy, and the happiest of decembers to you all!

DECEMBER 27



I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the compliments of the season.

i've read very little sherlock holmes - just a few stories here and there, but i figured what better time to read a story that takes place the day after boxing day than on...the day after boxing day? this is the mystery of a hat and a goose and a sparkly blue carbuncle (which sounds really gross, but is apparently not only a hideous eruption of boils or whatever, but also a beautiful jewel. the english language is such a joker.) and i was enjoying it, until the end, where it seemed to get wrapped up quickly and kind of chunkily, and i thought maybe i'd fallen asleep and missed something, but when i got to the comments section of the story, some dude pointed out that they'd messed up and lost great swathes of text. so now i'm going to go reread it elsewhere. sigh - worst day-after-boxing-day ever. hold please.

oh, yeah - it is much more satisfying to read the complete story.

read it for yourself here:

https://www.tor.com/2011/12/27/the-ad...

unless, of course, you'd rather not read a jacked-up version. in which case read it for yourself HERE:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1661/1...

(although gutenberg has no pictures)



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[Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ · Rating 4 out of 5]

"The Blue Carbuncle" is a Sherlock Holmes story anthologized in the The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which you can read online or download free here at Project Gutenberg.

We are not talking about the nasty skin abscess kind of carbuncle here; a carbuncle is also this:

... carbuncles are, by definition, red jewels, but Sherlock says there are also blue ones. And who am I to argue with him? (Okay, he's wrong; seriously, there are no blue carbuncles. Moreover carbuncles--the red ones--are not made of carbon, unlike diamonds. :P)

This story also contains a goose.

The goose was intended for Christmas dinner for one Mrs. Henry Baker, but unfortunately for her was dropped by the man delivering it to her when a police commissionaire startled him. The man also dropped his hat, a clue for Sherlock to his identity.

But in the meantime, the commissionaire decides to go ahead and eat the goose. In its craw he finds the aforementioned blue carbuncle, worth at least £20,000, which had been recently stolen from the Countess of Morcar. But who stole it, and can Sherlock Holmes track down the jewel thief? The game is afoot!

This was a fun story; I enjoyed Sherlock's deductive and investigative process here, even though he makes some wild leaps in analyzing the owner of the hat. What if his wife was lazy rather than unloving? and let's not get into the phrenology aspect, where large head size = intelligence. I particularly liked the way he manipulates a particular person into giving him the information Sherlock wants.

Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless fashion which was peculiar to him.

“When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the ‘Pink ’un’ protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet,” said he. “I daresay that if I had put £100 down in front of him, that man would not have given me such complete information as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a wager."

And once again we see that Sherlock Holmes has a bit of a soft heart. D'aww!



Next up: The Adventure of the Speckled Band. Huzzah!

[Francesc · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un caso muy original sobre un hecho aparentemente banal que desemboca en una investigación dónde Sherlock Holmes y su fiel amigo Watson deberán resolver un robo peculiar.

A very original case about an apparently banal event that leads to an investigation where Sherlock Holmes and his loyal friend Watson must solve a peculiar robbery.

[Aishu Rehman · Rating 3 out of 5]

In The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle Conan Doyle offers up a tale of goodwill that has a darker flipside.

The goodwill sees Sherlock Holmes trying to return a hat and goose lost by someone on Christmas Day, but the story then deals with the theft of a precious stone, the Blue Carbuncle.

The prowess of Holmes is displayed in the detective deducing much about the owner of the hat and the goose simply from examining the battered hat; though, the solving of the missing stone has much more to do with legwork than deduction.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle imbues a certain amount of humour into The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, humour that is not present in most of the short stories, but of course, there is also darkness, as a serious crime has been committed as well.

As with the case of the Boscombe Valley Mystery Holmes shows an indifference to the judicial system, allowing a criminal once again to escape justice. The criminal in this case though, is arguably, less deserving of the leniency offered by the consulting detective.

As with so many of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories, the Granada TV series, with Jeremy Brett as Holmes, faithfully keeps to the original storyline for its adaptation of The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.

[María · Rating 4 out of 5]

El carbunclo azul es uno de los casos más divertidos de Sherlock Holmes.
Siempre me ha parecido muy gracioso todo el lío que se monta con los gansos y el robo de la dichosa piedra, y aunque no es un relato propiamente navideño sí que ocurre en estas fechas y eso creo que influye bastante en el final de la historia.

[Ian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another Sherlock Holmes story that I read years ago but just listened to again on audiobook (47 minutes). A stolen diamond falls into Holmes’ possession by accident and via the most improbable of circumstances, but this is a Sherlock Holmes story, so the reader just has to go with it. Holmes has the task of piecing together who carried out the crime.

This is probably the nearest the reader gets to a “Christmas story” within the Holmes/Watson series, and, as with Dickens, it takes us back to a time when goose was the main Christmas dish in Britain, as opposed to turkey.

The word “carbuncle” is rarely used in modern Britain. It did receive a boost in popularity a few decades ago when Prince Charles, in a much-quoted remark, referred to an extension to the National Gallery in London as a “monstrous carbuncle.” Online dictionaries suggest the sole meaning of the word is that of a boil or a pustule, but I have an old paper dictionary that provides an additional meaning of “red precious stone (formerly of many kinds e.g., ruby; now garnet cut in boss shape)”.

Interesting how language changes!

The story is moderately diverting.

[Ali Mahfoodh · Rating 3 out of 5]

القصة السابعة من سلسلة المغامرات.
قضية صغيرة خالية من الدماء يُستعان بها بالمحقق لإعادة أغراض لأصحابها، يحصل هولمز على دليلين هما  وزة سمينة وقبعة رثة عليها اسم يحمله المئات في لندن. وبعد تحليل هولمز لما بين يديه تتعقد القضية وتقل براءتها لتشمل سرقة الجوهرة الزرقاء.

أحداث هادئة ومسلية تميل للبرود كما الكثير من قصص هولمز القصيرة وتميزها الاستنتاجات.
قمة القصة كانت في النهاية مع قرار هولمز بتحديد مصير المدان بمعزل عن أعين الشرطة، وأظن بأني أتفق مع تصرف شيرلوك بشأن هذه المعضلة الأخلاقية.


اقتباس يحرق النهاية:
"برغم كل شيء يا واطسون فأنا لست ملزمًا بتصحيح أخطاء الشرطة. لو كان هورنر في خطر لاختلف الأمر، ولكن بما أن هذا الشخص لن يشهد ضده والجوهرة ستعود إلى صاحبتها فسوف تنهار القضية. أحس وكأنني ارتكبت جناية، ولكن من الممكن أيضًا أنني أنقذت روحًا. هذا الرجل لن يلجأ إلى الجريمة ثانية، فهو مرعوب جدًا، اما إذا أرسلته إلى السجن الآن فسوف يتردد على السجن إلى الأبد!"

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a freebie from Audible.com. I read all the Sherlock Holmes stories when I was a kid, but I don't remember much about them individually, so it was fun to revisit Holmes and Watson for this light-hearted story of a Christmas goose that swallowed a stolen gemstone.

One thing that struck me was that the vaunted "deductive reasoning" of Holmes is really kind of laughable at times.

"I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that this man was intellectual?"

For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; a man with so large a brain must have something in it."

Yup, "big head" = "intellectual." Okay, be fair, this is what the Victorians thought, and Holmes was a detective, not a physiologist. Still, I noticed a lot of his other "deductions" were more like educated guesses that he brushes with the shiny imprimatur of absolute conviction. These lead him, of course, to the true culprit, in a low-key mystery rather full of improbable twists. But it's fun and kind of Christmasy in a secularish way, which is cool by me, and Alan Cummings's jovial reading is perfect.

[Tamar...playing hooky for a few hours today · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, narrated by Alan Cumming, is a fun romp and kept a smile plastered on my face throughout.

I didn’t read much Sherlock Holmes growing up – probably because I was scared out of my wits as a child watching Basil Rathbone in The Hounds of Baskerville (parents of yore were less vigilant about TV content for toddlers than today’s parents). Scary movies are even scarier in black and white and the distant howling of hounds against a gray foggy backdrop was truly terrifying! Because of this early horrific memory, I clearly must have missed out on a lot of fun because this story was an absolute hoot. I read the Purloined Letter earlier this year (because I read Proust’s Mysterious Correspondent before that). SH totally reminded me of Poe’s Dupin, but even better I think. The icing on the cake, however, was the narration by Alan Cumming.

Watson comes to visit his friend Holmes, who is preoccupied studying a hat. It transpires that Peterson, the commissionaire, bumped into a man who appeared to be arguing with two brutes accosting him. The man raised his walking stick to protect himself, broke a shop window and fled the scene, afraid of what appeared to be a policeman approaching. The man’s hat had flown off in one direction and the goose he was carrying fell in a different direction. Peterson tried to help by retrieving the items but the man, who was that much poorer at having lost both his hat and his goose, was nowhere to be found. Not knowing how to find the owner of the lost items, Peterson solicited Holmes’ advice. Holmes suggested that Peterson take home the goose for his Christmas dinner, since it would not keep and could be easily replaced, and he would try to find the owner to return the hat. While inspecting the goose, Holmes discovered and retrieved a large blue stone lodged in its gullet. To make a long story short, it turned out to be the most valuable diamond in the world, none other than (drum roll, please) the Blue Carbuncle, recently stolen from the Countess of Morcar’s hotel room. Although a reformed thief had already been arrested for the crime the diamond had never been found. Holmes proceeded to glean every bit of information you would never have guessed from that hat, then he advertised in all the next edition papers with a clue to the owner, who remarkably showed up on Holmes’ doorstep later in the day to retrieve his hat. The goose was, sadly, already cooked but the owner was pleased to accept a substitute goose for his dinner. Next the plan comes together, Holmes learned how the owner came upon the goose and traces his leads back to the culprit who had stolen the stone. Every part of this story is fun…what Holmes learns from the hat, how he develops his leads, dupes his foils into giving up information, and his eventual interrogation of the true thief, whose proverbial goose was cooked (okay okay, keep those raspberries to yourselves, please).

If you have Audible+ look for this. When I saw that Cumming was the narrator, I knew I was going to have fun.

If you don’t have audible+ you can enjoy this story on East of the Web
here or in the full collection (VII) of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, at Project Gutenberg here

[Isa Cantos (Crónicas de una Merodeadora) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Vale, creo que una de los razones por las que de verdad no puedo adelantarme a los resultados de estos casos, por más de que lo intento, es que son cosas demasiado rebuscadas y muy extrañas. De verdad, ¿a quién se le ocurre esconder una gema en el buche de un ganso? Nunca habría pensado eso en la viiiida.

Y, sí, la resolución del caso estuvo bastante divertida, aunque sigue sin ser uno de mis favoritos. Además, me hubiera gustado que la condesa apareciera al final para que le devolvieran la gema, pues tal como acaba el relato no me queda claro si se la van a devolver. Quizás Sherlock se la va a quedar, who knows?

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Needed a short read to occupy me during a quick lunch. This was a delightful story. Full of Holmes' keen observations as he looks at a hat and tries to develop a profile of sorts about the wearer so they could return it and a dead goose that was dropped by the man. How did this turn into sleuthing about a robbery of a jewel? That sets the Holmes and Watson we all love on the trail.

[Bill · Rating 4 out of 5]

My final Festive read for this year is a fun, light hearted adventure for Sherlock Holmes & Doctor Watson. It's always a pleasure to return to the world of Holmes, at any time of year.

[Razvan Banciu · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are at least two coincidences (the second one, with Holmes & Watson jumping into the thief, quite a big one...) , the villain is a bit stupid (and I'm very kind naming him like that), but the entire story is passable.
Three stars, but always the same question: Aren't we too harsh on Mr. Doyle? Probably yes...

[Jack Heath · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 Stars. Just a joy to behold. A complicated tale so well told. As the best of these stories do, it starts off simply. Dr. Watson is visiting his friend just after Christmas to wish him all the best for the holidays and finds him busy studying an old and decrepit hat. The two go through their enjoyable routine, as they have surely done numerous times before, of one, the genius detective, drawing extraordinary conclusions from tidbits of clues, and the other being astonished. The hat and a Christmas goose were found a few days earlier by their friend Commissionaire Peterson at the scene of an attack by a gang of toughs. Things get more interesting when Peterson's wife finds a glistening blue jewel, here it's called a carbuncle, an obsolete synonym, inside the goose. Holmes and Watson realize it must be the one reported in the news recently stolen from the Countess of Morcar. Suddenly this trivial hat and goose story goes ballistic. Henry Baker, there are thousands in London and vicinity, must be found. There's our tale. Those readers who work in business will enjoy the references to goose production and retailing - 130 years ago and today, quite similar! (June 2021)

[Jamie · Rating 4 out of 5]

A whimsical tale that shows Holmes' possesses some ability to forgive, at least in a situation where nobody comes to any real harm and all can be made right again.

[Diamond Cowboy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an other great Sherlock Holmes adventure where an old man's black felt hat, a fine Christmas goose and a bright bonny blue carbuncle are featured.

[Huda Aweys · Rating 3 out of 5]

اضحكتنى جدا رحلة البحث عن مصدر (الأوزة) :) حسيتها زي قصص الاطفال .. من الراجل اللى لقى الوزة .. للى اشتراها .. للنادى اللى بيبيعها بالقسط .. للمورد اللى جابها من المزرعة .. و .. ادى البيضة و ادى اللى سلقها و ادى اللي ..
:D ...
كالعادة بيستعرض قدرته التحليلية امامنا من خلال محاوراته مع دكتور واتسون و بيلفت انتباهنا للنظرة العميقة للاشياء من حوالينا و اللى بتورث الفراسة .. لكن فلتت منه المره دى لما قال ان اتساع القبعة و مقاسها الكبير اللى دليل على كبر حجم راس صاحبها .. هو دليل على ثقافته .. لأن دماغه الكبيرة دى اكيد بيعمل بيها حاجه من وجهة نظر هولمز !!
لا و الله !!؟؟ :D :D

عموما :) .. احلى ما فى الحكاية دى نهايتها و اللى قاله هولمز لما اطلق سراح الولد اللى سرق .. بيعجبنى في هولمز انه دايما مابينصبش نفسه كحاكم او قاضي و بيؤمن بالفرص التانيه ! و دا بيثرى جدا البعد الانساني فى شخصيته
نهاية قصته هنا فكرتنى بـ (الاعذار) فى الاسلام و هو اتجاه فقهى بيقول باعذار المجرم و عدم تطبيق الحد عليه من اول مرة زي اعذار السارق و عدم معاقبته على اول سرقه له و احيانا تانى او تالت سرقه مادام دا ما بيعبرش عن نزعة اجراميه اصيله عند اللى سرق
!

[Katja Labonté · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 stars & 5/10 hearts. What a fun story! Watson & Sherlock really shine here, and I absolutely love studying Holmes’ deductions and actions. The villains are unusual and interesting, and the whole thing is so quick, light, humorous, and Christmassy!

Content: swearing.

A Favourite Quote: “I can see nothing,” said I, handing it back to my friend.
“On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences.”
A Favourite Humorous Quote: “But pray tell me, before we go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting.”
The man hesitated for an instant. “My name is John Robinson,” he answered with a sidelong glance.
“No, no; the real name,” said Holmes sweetly. “It is always awkward doing business with an alias.”

[Yassmeen Altaif · Rating 2 out of 5]

قصة قصيرة كروايات أغاثا كريستي أو حلقة من حلقات الانمي المشهور (المحقق كونان).

القضية حُلت بسرعة، وكأنها كما كتبت أحد القارئات في مراجعتها قصة أطفال من صاحب القبعة للنادي للبائع وهكذا.
وحقاً هي تصلح أن يقرأها حتى الصغار، فلا كلام صعب ولا تعقيد.

وقفت نهاية القصة، لا أعلم هل أنا مع هولمز أم ضده.
هل ما فعله حقاً في صالح السارق، وهل هو ظلم للآخرين أم لا؟

[Wesal · Rating 1 out of 5]

مجرد قصة بوليسية أخرى

ولغز يحل سريعاً

لا جديد ولا شيء مفيد

[Alyaa Al-Sharakhat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Spoiler alert
المراجعة تحوي حرق لمحتوى الرواية

منذ سنوات وانا اتمنى ان اقرأ رواية لأحدى روايات شارلوك هولمز وهذه هي المرة الأولى
حقا آرثر كونان دويل ذكي .. كل هذه التفاصيل الذكية لابد ان ابناء ذلك الجيل الذي نشرت فيه الروايات اصبحوا يهتمون بكل تفاصيل الأمور
لأن استنتاجاته حقا ذكية
في هذه العصر الحديث عصر التكنولجيا لازالت هذه الرواية مشوقة وممتعة ومن يقرأ احد اعمال كونان دويل سيشتاق لقراءة اعمال اخرى

قضية بسيطة تبدأ بوزة وتنتهي بجوهرة
وخلال ساعات قليل يتمكن هولمز من حل اللغز
ما احببته هو الجانب الانساني فيما فعله هولمز

فقد خاف على المجرم وعلى مستقبله

لطيف سأقرأ المزيد من الاعمال بإذن الله

[Dean · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another great adventure and mystery..
Only Arthur Conan Doyle writes such fluently and gripping detective stories..

The immortal classic series still works for me!!
"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" does not fail to satisfy both Sherlock Holmes fans and newcomer to the party!!!

I did listen to the audio-book, very good indeed..
Great job by the narrator..

The story itself includes a goose and a stolen carbuncle found in his crop.
Also a Christmas setting and the Victorian flair and atmosphere rounds up the show!!

Well, three good stars and an Hurray for Sherlock and its wits!!!
If you are fond of short stories and likes the Victorian era, then go for it!!

Dean;)

[Trish · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read thanks to the Literary Advent Calendar by BookRiot.

[ناني ماكفي · Rating 3 out of 5]

اشعر اني كبرت على هذا الاسلوب البسيط في الحبكة بلا اثارة او ادرينالين مرتفع
مع هذا هي فاصل خفيف شيق ولطيف ..

[Jaksen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am presently reading all the Sherlock Holmes stories and novels, using annotated versions.

First off, not the best in the bunch, not by far, not by halves. There are so many errors in this story it's hard to belive ACD even had an editor. (Maybe he didn't.) Even before I read the annotated 'criticisms' in the version I was reading I was thinking, what? What! For one thing Holmes describes a man, who will be coming to see him, only by studying the man's hat. Okay, big head = smart.

I am, what? Okay, phrenology, still popular in the late 19th century. But then he goes on to say the man isn't particularly 'fit' because there's evidence of sweat on the inner lining of the hat? (The conclusion being that he sweats because he's NOT accustomed to physical exercise.) But what hat doesn't have evidence of perspiration - do 'fit' men not sweat? I didn't get it. There's also the matter of the man carrying his hat upstairs and getting 'tallow' on it from a candle, but who carries a hat and a lit candle in the same hand? And in Holmes' day hats were hung up upon entering one's own house and so on and so on...

I was not the only critic, as many of Holmes' most devoted followers have pointed out the same errors and more. However, when they do, they make all sorts of 'allowances' for him, the most common of which is that 'Watson' has obviously made an error in his recording of Holmes' investigations. Balderdash I say! They are too kind to Mr. Holmes!

Anyhow, having said all that, the story is about a stolen 'carbuncle,' which is blue, (and in the real world doesn't exist, btw, but who cares!) and a goose and a theft. There is much running about from here to there as Holmes and sidekick Watson try to figure out who stole this precious gem and just how it got stuck in the 'crop' of a goose. (And geese, btw, don't have crops, not technically.) So in effect it was a lot of errors, running around, silliness and (mis)information about geese and at the end, well...

A surprising end, I do grant that, and it's the only reason I give this Holmes story three stars instead of two!

[Becky · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is only the second Sherlock Holmes story I've read - well, second official ACD Sherlock story, as I've read other peoples' stories with or about Holmes and whatnot. And I enjoyed it, in some ways more than the first one, but still I felt like this little story was lacking, or unfinished in some way.

This was read by Alan Cummings, who did a great job, with two little nitpicky exceptions: 1) that he read just a teensy bit too fast; and 2) that there wasn't enough differentiation between Holmes and Watson. It was hard for me to tell them apart unless there was a "Holmes said" or "I said" (since, of course, the stories are narrated by Watson).

The story was interesting, in so much as it's always interesting to see what Holmes can learn from an everyday item, but honestly, I wasn't interested in the mystery behind why he was commissioned to do so. I didn't much care that the blue carbuncle was stolen, and honestly, if I had a carbuncle of any color, I'd want it to be stolen. TAKE MY CARBUNCLE, PLEASE!

OK, OK, this is the gemstone carbuncle, not the hideous boil carbuncle, but still, I didn't much care how, or why, or by whom it was stolen. But, I did like the end resolution in which Holmes shows that he's got both a heart and a little lawlessness in him. No harm, no foul.

OK story, more than OK Holmes... 3 stars. :)

[AZPaule · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved the narration by Alan Cummings, he is so good. I listened to the Audible audiobook version of this book. Apparently it's no longer available on that site. According to Amazon, it is an unabridged version. Thought it was a great short story kept me interested till the end, wished for it to be longer. As it was holiday themed, it's lots of fun to listen to on a cold winter's night around the Christmas season. It helps to get you into the mood for the holidays. At least for me.

[Mohammed Ali · Rating 3 out of 5]

مغامرات شارلوك هولمز , تأليف السيد آرثر كونان دويل

قضية " مغامرة الجوهرة الزرقاء " هي القضية ( المغامرة ) السابعة من مغامرات شارلوك هولمز

الجوهرة الزرقاء عبارة عن حجر كريم نادر و نفيس جدا , كانت تملكه إحدى الكونتيسات قبل أن يسرق منها بواسطة عامل فندق و إحدى خادماتها , ثم يلجأ هذا العامل إلى إخفاء هذه الجوهرة في حوصلة إوزة تتمتلكها أخته , ثم تقع هذه الإوزة في يد أحد أصدقاء شارلوك .

[Elysa · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a Christmas story! Well, in that it takes place around Christmas time. And it's fun!

There is a quick discussion between Watson and Sherlock about how their cases aren't always criminal. Such as the case with Irene Adler, Mary Sutherland, and the man with the twisted lip. This is because a commissionaire ran into a fight on the street during which a man broke a window with a goose, then proceeded to drop his hat and the goose. And ran.

“Only one of those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have four million human beings all jostling each other within the space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be presented which may be striking and bizarre without being criminal. We have already had the experience of such.”

This sort of makes me miss casually being in public and people watching. We humans really are so interesting. Not that I ever think I'd witness such a thing out in public, but Sherlock does have a point that the weird and improbable really aren't as weird and improbable as we think. Odd things happen every day.

Anyway, Sherlock has the lost hat and a mission to locate the man. The commissionaire takes the goose for dinner and finds a stolen gem inside of the goose. The game is afoot.

[itsdanixx · Rating 5 out of 5]

"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" is the seventh story in the The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes story collection, the third publication in the Sherlock Holmes series (after the first two novels, so the first story collection).

Holmes is consulted by a man who witnessed a man be accosted by some thugs on the street, resulting in him dropping and leaving his hat and goose. Holmes says he will attempt to trace the man to return his hat, but advises him to eat the goose or else it will go bad.... but when his wife goes to cook it, they're surprised to discover it contains a priceless - and recently stolen - gem.

Another great story, as all in this particular collection are really.