The Red-Headed League / A Scandal in Bohemia / The Adventure of the Speckled Band / The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Book by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Genres: Mystery, Crime, Classics

Audio Cassette

First published January 1, 1913

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

[Lisa]

This book contained several short stories.

1. A Scandal in Bohemia
2. A Case of Identity
3. The Red-headed League
4. The Boscombe Valley Mystery
5. The Five Orange Pips
6. The Man with the Twisted Lip
7. The Blue Carbuncle
8. The Speckled Band
9. The Engineer’s Thumb
10. The Noble Bachelor
11. The Beryl Coronet
12. The Copper Beeches

The ones I enjoyed the most were “The Man with the Twisted Lip,” “The Speckled Band,” and “The Engineer’s Thumb.”

Now on to another Sherlock Holmes mystery!

[Sreya]

I LOVE SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES

[James]

A very good selection of short stories and novellas by Arthur Conan Doyle. A very good mixture of ‘who done it’ and mystery novels.

[Martha Evans]

Read 'The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton' for my Ways of Reading module in relation to psychoanalysis and the unconscious of the text in terms of Freud. I didn't mind this text as it was easy to get through, but not a particularly gripping plot line. Still puzzled by the ending in terms of the identity of the killer. I liked that Holmes' and Watson didn't help the police in solving Milverton's murder, as it felt like a modern take on female treatment for a 19th century text: possibly proto-feminist?

[Golnoosh]

I've read this book for, oh, so many times & still haven't been fed up with it! Yeah, I'll never get tired of Sherlock Holmes!

[Jason Cravens]

I love Sherlock Holmes. I like that each short story is around 50-60 pages that way you can finish something in a day. :)

[Abhishek Jain]

This is really amazing and feeling of whats gonna next is thrilling.. Love to read and watch Sherlock Holmes :)

[Βασίλης Κουφός]

masterpiece

[Fillipe Ferrari]

um livro que gruda de maneira absurda.

Esse livro me mostrou o quanto é bom ler na minha juventude, os primeiros capítulos li em um dia, é simplesmente incrível o livro