Nouveaux exploits de Sherlock Holmes

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by Arthur Conan Doyle

Les Exploits de Sherlock Holmes - The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes dans l'edition originale britannique - est un recueil de nouvelles policieres americano-britannique, paru en 1954. Il s'agit de douze pastiches des aventures mettant en scene Sherlock Holmes, ecrits par Adrian Conan Doyle, le fils d'Arthur Conan Doyle, en collaboration avec l'auteur americain John Dickson Carr. Pendant la redaction, ce dernier tombe malade, c'est pourquoi seuls les six premiers recits du recueil sont consideres comme des uvres issues de sa plume."

Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Classics, Crime, Detective, Short Stories, Thriller

296 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1954

About the author

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British 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

[Antu Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

সার্লকস্রষ্টার পুত্র ও আরেক রহস্যকাহিনী লেখক ডিকসন কারের হাতে হোমসের আরেকবার পুনর্জন্ম। বইটা প্রথম যখন গুডরিডসে দেখি তখন ৪.৪৩ রেটিং দেখে ভেবেছিলাম শার্লকের মতো চরিত্রের খুতখুতে ভক্তরা একটা প্যাস্টিশকে যখন এত ভালোবাসা দিয়েছে তখন তা না পড়া হোমসের ভক্ত হিসেবে অপরাধ!
ফেলুদার দার্জিলিং জমজমাট গল্পে যেমন ফেলুদার আনসল্‌ভড চন্দননগরের জোড়া খুন ফেলুদার গুণমুগ্ধদের আজও খোঁচায় সেরকম আর্থার কোনান ডয়েলের লেখার ভিতরে এমন বারোটি কেসের ইঙ্গিত (কোথাও শুধু ভিক্টিম বা অপরাধীর নাম, কোথাও বা জায়গার নাম, কোথাও ক্রাইমের মোডাস অপারেন্ডি এমনকি শুধু মোটিভ) হয়ত পাঠকদের খুঁচিয়েছে যদিও ওগুলো ব্যর্থতার গল্প নয়। এইসকল ছোট্ট সূত্র ধরেই আদ্রিয়ান কোনান ডয়েল এবং জন ডিকসন কার বারোটি জমজমাট গল্প দাঁড় করিয়েছেন।
খুব সূক্ষ্মভাবে না দেখলেও বাকি প্রাইভেট ডিটেকটিভদের সঙ্গে শার্লকের পার্থক্য ওঁর নাটুকেপনায়। প্রায় সব গল্পেই নাটুকে রহস্য-উন্মোচন ছাড়াও যত শার্লকসুলভ বৈশিষ্ট্য তা রীতিমতো ঠেসে দিয়েছে গল্পের ভিতর। এর জন্যই হয়তো পাঠকদের মনে শার্লকের উপস্থিতি জোর করে গেঁথে গেছে। আমি বরাবর অদ্রীশ বর্ধনের অনুবাদই পড়েছি বলে পার্থক্য কিছুই বুঝিনি তবে এই অনুবাদটা একটু বেশি গতিশীল মনে হয়েছে।

এই সংস্করণে টীকা নেই তবে বুকফার্মেরটা টীকাসহ শুনেছি। মূল সমগ্রর সবগুলোই টীকা পড়ে অভ্যস্ত; গল্পে পান থেকে চুন খসলেই টীকাকাররা কড়া সমালোচনা করতেন! এক্ষেত্রে জানা দরকার শার্লকের সময়কালে কী এমন উন্নত কাচ জানালায় ব্যবহার করত যেটার ভিতর দিয়ে বুলেট গেলে কাচটা না ভেঙে শুধু একটা ফুটো রেখেই চলে যেত!

[Riju Ganguly · Rating 4 out of 5]

This collection of apocryphal Sherlockiana has a special status: the stories herein are the first "authorised" pastiches that came out after the demise of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The rarest of rare collection og pastiches & parodies, edited by Ellery Queen, had been ruthlessly suppressed by Adrian Conan Doyle. Perhaps to amend the situation, or more accurately, perhaps to encash upon the public demand for more Holmes stories, he had collaborated with one of the greatest writers of mystery: John Dickson Carr, justly famous for his locked-room mysteries, to come up with these stories. The strong points that shout in the favour of the stories are: Holmes is true to canon, Watson is authentic, the settings and the characters don't create any discord with those of the canon, and the plots are tight (if not somewhat gimmicky, which takes away some of the re-read value. The stories are:

1) The Adventure of The Seven Clocks: Why does a nobleman keeps on smashing clocks?
2) The Adventure of The Gold Hunter: Can Holmes catch a murderer on the basis of his observations of a watch?
3) The Adventure of The Wax Gamblers: Was it a mistake on the part of the old watchmen, or have the two wax statues of gamblers really started playing cards?
4) The Adventure of The Highgate Miracle: What happened to the gentleman who, after rushing back to his house to collect his umbrella, had vanished from the face of earth?
5) The Adventure of The Black Baronet: There lies a dead man, and there is the suspect at hand who has some motive, but where is the knife that had killed the man?
6) The Adventure of The Sealed Room: Doors closed, windows closed, no intruder apparent, two shots fired accounting for the only two persons present in the room; but why is Holmes sure that this is cold-blooded murder and not just suicide?
7) The Adventure of The Foulkes Rath: The person who had qaurreled with the murdered person is found dazed near the body, holding the murder weapon, sleeves soaked in blood; but why is Holmes looking elsewhere for the murderer?
8) The Adventure of The Abbas Ruby: Who stole the ruby, or more importantly, who had got rid of the Camelias first?
9) The Adventure of The Dark Angels: When death sends its messenger, can Holmes save the doomed man?
10) The Adventure of The Two Women: Holmes & Watson risk all their honour & respectability to destroy the web of blackmail spun by a mastermind, but do they succeed?
11) The Adventure of The Deptford Horror: For years the members of the Wilson family are succumbing to heart conditions, then why does Holmes suspect diabolical shrewdness behind these deaths, and what can he do to save the girl who is now living in the shadow?
12) The Adventure of The Red Widow: a murder has taken place, the suspect is also not unknown, but what has the suspect done to the head of the murdered man?

The stories purloin (or should I say: draw inspiration) from some of the most well-known canonical tricks, or simply re-enginner them to suit the present needs. But many of the themes are distinctly darker and much more disturbing than anything Sir Arthur might have liked. Recommended.

[Ana Cristina Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Si eres fan de Sherlock Holmes pero ya has leído todos los relatos originales, esta colección escrita por el hijo de Conan Doyle y John Dickinson Carr, es un muy buen complemento.

Escrita con gran fidelidad y respeto a los originales, desarrolla casos que el doctor Watson mencionó en sus diarios pero no llegó a narrar.

Excelente ambientación y buenas historias. Recomendable.

[Richard Hemingway · Rating 2 out of 5]

I must confess that when I read this collection of short stories over 30 years ago, I missed out on one tiny little detail. These stories weren’t written by Arthur Conan Doyle they were written by his son Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr. This was during the period where I was reading four or five novels a week. So when I read this book, I felt that it was okay, but nothing special. Before the short stories there is a section called “Always Holmes’, if I read that section, this book would have never lasted as long as it did on my bookshelf. The following quote should be illuminating:
“Adrian Conan Doyle uses the very desk on which his father wrote. He is surrounded by the same objects that his father handled, and he has in every way endeavored to recreate each particle of atmosphere that formed Sir Author’s environment.”

The only thing missing is that he wasn’t a genius like his father. A lot of people can write a novel or short story. Few can make their main character such an icon that over a hundred years later many people swear that he was a live person. If you are like me and hooked on Holmes then you will want to read this book just to see how it compares with the original Holmes’ books. I am not an expert on deconstructing fiction so I can’t explain why I think this collection looks like but doesn’t quite match the original. Maybe another reader will make a comment and explain why I am or am not wrong.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls · Rating 3 out of 5]

Exploits or Exploitation? First published in 1954, this collection features the first officially-sanctioned Sherlock Holmes pastiches (stories starring the Great Detective not written by his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle) written by ACD's son Adrian Conan Doyle with some help from John Dickson Carr and who knows who else. There are some clever mysteries here, although none are truly memorable, but the writing merely mimics that of Arthur Conan Doyle rather than finding its own stride, and the characters seem a bit off as well. Holmes in particular seems to change personalities from one story to the next, and is overly influenced by his own media depictions - wearing a cape and a deerstalker hat and using phrases like "The game is afoot!" and "Elementary my dear Watson" - which never really appeared in the original Holmes canon.

[Oscar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cada año surgen cientos de pastiches holmesianos (o sherlockianos), pero muy pocos alcanzan el nivel de excelencia esperado. Sin embargo, en los años 50 del pasado siglo, Adrian Conan Doyle, hijo menor de Sir Arthur y conocedor de su manera de escribir, y John Dickson Carr, famoso escritor de novelas de misterio y policíacas y gran seguidor de Sherlock Holmes, unieron fuerzas para escribir algunos relatos a la forma de Conan Doyle padre. Los amplios conocimientos de ambos, y su obsesión por los detalles en cuanto a léxico, vocabulario, estilo y demás, hacen de estos relatos una de las mejores aproximaciones a la obra de Conan Doyle. La manera de expresarse de Holmes y Watson, los misterios presentados y la ambientación victoriana, logran que el lector se olvide por un momento de que no está leyendo una de las historias escritas por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Estos son los seis relatos incluidos en esta edición de Valdemar de ‘Las hazañas de Sherlock Holmes’:

La aventura de los siete relojes. Celia Forsythe consulta a Holmes sobre el inexplicable miedo a los relojes por parte de Charles Hendon, que llega a aplastarlos.

La aventura del hacendado de Trelawney. El reverendo James Appley acude a Holmes por la muerte, aparentemente debida a causas naturales, del terrateniente John Trelawney.

La aventura de los jugadores de cera. Holmes, convaleciente de un esguince de tobillo, recibe la visita de Eleanor Baxter y de su abuelo, Sam Baxter, vigilante nocturno en el Museo de Cera de Madame Taupin. Resulta que las cartas de unos jugadores de cera aparecen movidas.

La aventura del milagro de Highgate. La irritante Gloria Cabpleasure acude con un intrigante problema a Holmes: su marido está obsesionado con un paraguas.

La aventura del baronet atezado. Gregson encuentra a Holmes y Watson en su retiro de vacaciones en Sussex y los lleva a Lavington Court, donde el coronel Dalcy, un invitado de Sir Reginald Lavington, ha aparecido apuñalado.

La aventura de la habitación cerrada. Cora Murray acude al doctor Watson con el fin de que la lleve hasta Holmes, y ambos puedan ayudarla con su problema. Resulta que el coronel Warburton y su esposa, con los que vive, han aparecido muertos en una habitación cerrada. Se cree que el coronel asesinó a su esposa para posteriormente suicidarse.

[Riju Ganguly · Rating 5 out of 5]

অদ্রীশ বর্ধনের দ্বারা অনূদিত এই বইটি বাজারে অমিল ছিল প্রায় তিন দশক। অবশেষে কল্পবিশ্ব ও ফ্যান্টাস্টিক-এর যৌথ উদ্যোগে সেটি ফিরে এল আমাদের কাছে।
মূল বইয়ের মতো এই বইয়েও আছে দু'টি অংশ। তারা হল~
(ক) অ্যাড্রিয়ান কোনান ডয়েল এবং জন ডিকসন কার লিখিত:
১. সপ্ত ঘড়ির অ্যাডভেঞ্চার;
২. কাঞ্চন যন্ত্রের কাহিনি;
৩. জুয়াড়ি মোমমূর্তি;
৪. ছাতা-পূজারির অ্যাডভেঞ্চার;
৫. অদৃশ্য ছোরার কারসাজি;
৬. কিউরিও কক্ষের রহস্য।
(খ) অ্যাড্রি���়ান কোনান ডয়েল লিখিত:
৭. জল্লাদের কুঠার;
৮. পদ্মরাগ প্রহেলিকা;
৯. মারণপরি কাহিনি;
১০. কুটিলা কামিনীর কাহিনি;
১১. শঙ্কার ডঙ্কা রহস্য;
১২. লোহিত বিধবার রহস্য।
মূল লেখাগুলো প্যাস্টিশ সাহিত্যের সম্পদ। অদ্রীশ সরস এবং কিছুটা ছড়াচ্ছলে তাদের অনুবাদ করলেও মূল রহস্যের অনুভূতি তথা মানবমনের অন্ধকার ও বিপদঘন দিকটিকে যথারীতি ফুটিয়ে তুলেছেন অনন্য ভঙ্গিতে।
এই বিশেষ সংস্করণটিকে সমৃদ্ধ করেছে অজস্র অলংকরণ এবং প্রয়োজনীয় টীকা— যাদের জন্য সম্পাদক সন্তু বাগের কাছে আলাদাভাবে কৃতজ্ঞ থাকতেই হয়। তারা লেখাগুলোর ধার ও ভার দুই-ই বাড়িয়েছে।
বইটির ছাপা চমৎকার ও শুদ্ধ। প্রচ্ছদে পিটার কুশিং এবং বইটি খুললেই ২২১বি বেকার স্ট্রিটের 'অন্দরমহল'-এর ছবি পাঠককে এক ঝটকায় নিয়ে যাবে ঊনবিংশ শতাব্দীর সেই কুয়াশাচ্ছন্ন লন্ডনে।
সব মিলিয়ে, শার্লক হোমসের অ্যাডভেঞ্চারে আগ্রহী হলে এই বইটি আপনাকে পড়তেই হবে।

[Lauren Stoolfire · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr is collection of Holmesian short stories that felt incredibly authentic. I guess that makes sense with Adrian Conan Doyle on the job since he's the youngest son of Arthur Conan Doyle and everything. I loved their take on the untold adventures - you know, the ones that are only just referenced in the original stories. I would love to read more from Adrian Conan Doyle in the future.

[Farhan · Rating 5 out of 5]

দারুণ আনন্দ পেলাম। গুরুকে নিয়ে লেখা প্যাস্টিশেগুলোর অনেকগুলিই খুব একটা জমজমাট না হলেও স্রেফ আবহের কারণেই পড়ে যাই; সেই ঊনবিংশ শতকের লন্ডন, কুয়াশাচ্ছন্ন বেকার স্ট্রিট, পাইপ হাতে হোমস, এ-ই যথেষ্ট। এই বইয়ের বোনাস হলো, গল্পগুলোও টানটান। লেখক কোনান ডয়েলেরই কনিষ্ঠ পুত্র এড্রিয়ান কোনান ডয়েল, আর গল্পগুলোর রেফারেন্স আছে মূল শার্লক হোমসেই। পিতার সুরটা পুত্র খুব ভালভাবে ধরতে পেরেছেন 'দ্য নিউ এক্সপ্লয়েটস অভ শার্লক হোমস'-এর গল্পগুলোতে, সেজন্য অন্য প্যাস্টিশেগুলোর চেয়ে এটাকে আলাদা করেই রাখবো। আর অনুবাদ করেছেন হোমসের সেরা বাংলা অনুবাদক অদ্রীশ বর্ধন, কাজেই মূল হোমসের সাথে তফাৎ পাওয়াই যাচ্ছে না। শার্লকের ভক্তদের জন্য অবশ্যপাঠ্য।

[Boogi Lu · Rating 3 out of 5]

ماجراهای جدید شرلوک هلمز یعنی یه سری داستان شرلوک هلمزی که یکی از پسران کنان دویل بزرگ به کمک دیکسون کار نویسنده داستان های پلیسی نوشته، یعنی فضا سازی و حال و هوا شبیه داستان های اصلی و حس خوبی برای طرفدارها هلمز داره اما
اما داستان ها زیادی کوتاه هستن و گره افکنی و باز شدنش سیر درستی ندارن و حس هوشمندی بی نظیری که در داستان های اصلی هست رو اینجا حس نمی کنی. سرگرم میشی و حال و هوای خوبی میگیری اما لذت کاملی که باید از یه اثر ‌کارآگاهی و شرلوک هلمزی اصیل ببری رو اینجا نمی بری
-من بشخصه کتاب شرلوک هلمز در محلول هفت درصدی نوشته نیکلاس مه‌یر رو بیشتر ترجیح دادم

[Rozonda · Rating 2 out of 5]

Years ago, I read Adrian Conan Doyle's "Tales of Love and Hate" and I was appalled at the lack of talent of the son of such a gifted writer. I hoped that Dickson Carr, a wonderful mystery writer,would add the necessary talent to these Sherlockian pastiches. I was wrong. The stories are not badly written but they betray the Holmesian spirit in more than one way. Watson is minimized as a vehicle more than as a friend; Holmes' misogyny, which did not despise women but feared and respected them, in this case portrays ladies as puppets of their emotions... and the whodunit side (the Agatha Christie side) is favoured against development of characters and atmospheres. There have been better pastiches and there will be.

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was probably the first anthology of Sherlock Holmes pastiches that I ever read back in the dim and murky past when dinosaurs walked the Earth in mortal terror of Doug McClure. Basil Rathbone was still my main source of Holmes with most of Conan Doyle senior's stories still not having a place on my bookshelves. So now that all those brilliant works by dear Arthur are all indelible features of my memory, perhaps it's time I revisited his son's attempts to recreate his father's style with the help of his dad's old desk and of collaborator John Dickson Carr. Only the first two are full on collaborations with perhaps one of them, The Seven Clocks, being the best story in the collection. It's got a suitably bizarre fellow in it who goes in for some full on random clock smashing but it's the spot on atmosphere that makes the tale. The other being the rather poor The Gold Hunter. Carr's The Wax Gamblers is like one of those old school friends you bump into every five years or so, turning up in various anthologies. It has a very humorous tone and features boxing, an injured Holmes and Watson getting the butt of the jokes but saving the day anyway. Good story. Unfortunately Carr steps over the line too much in the farcical Highgate Miracle. Carr has almost no involvement in the very forgettable Black Baronet but must surely have loaned Conan Doyle some expertise to craft The Sealed Room. Carr is regarded as one of the greatest to pen the sub-genre of the locked room and one of his stories was voted the all time best by his peers. Conan Doyle's father also penned a story of the same name. What results is also quite a good story and another that pops up from time to time.
From here on in Conan Doyle junior is left to his own devices as illness took a toll on Carr. What follows are six very derivative stories, mostly dull, with many of the right elements but no finished shine. The pick of them is The Debtford Horror, deeply derivative of The Speckled Band, but quite atmospheric with a nice frisson of creepiness to accompany one of the most creative methods of bumping off unwanted family members ever seen. Though thanks to Conan Doyle senior for sewing the seed by first mentioning in Black Peter the arrest of Wilson the notorious canary-trainer. Although Wilson is not arrested in the story Conan Doyle junior lays the blame at Watson's feet calling it 'a typical Watson error.' Holmes quite uncharacteristically spouts proverbs throughout. Fun though.
What always occurs to me after reading a Sherlock Holmes anthology, and the number is legion, is that no matter how closely the writers mimic Conan Doyle senior's style, or how many Holmsian elements are included, none of them come close to performing the alchemy that Arthur Conan Doyle did. In many ways the formula to the literary alchemy of the perfect Victorian Sherlock Holmes story is lost to time because no one has first hand experience of the Victorian era nor the acquaintance of the men the great detective was based upon.

[Suyash Kumar · Rating 2 out of 5]

Adrian Conan Doyle has done nothing to demonstrate that he has inherited his father's intellect.
The stories are unexceptional and quite mediocre. Every single story has the following elements ever present that make reading quite monotonous:
1. Holmes observing people and thus figuring out their profession or there earlier whereabouts followed by Watson and any other person in their company giving a 'start'. Mind you it's always a start. It's never amazement or shock or fascination. It's always a start. Watson unlike later in the original stories continues to assume that Holmes is making stuff up until Holmes explains to him, his chain of thought.
2. There's an irritatingly excessive use of the word 'Tut' by Holmes. I don't remember Holmes really 'Tutting' people so much in the original stories.
3. Lestrade keeps going on about Holmes being a theoretical person and he himself being a practical one in every single story he appears in.

There are many other such examples which I grow weary of and hence will not list out any further. Read the book if you simply want to read some new Sherlock Holmes stories but don't expect them to be of the same standard as the original ones or you'll be bitterly disappointed.

[Canette Arille · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of twelve short stories. I watched a movie about Sherlock Holmes and decided to read something about him. I think the book is interesting, and You can read :)

[Zita · Rating 2 out of 5]

The stories were quite mediocre overall, which is the case with Sherlock Holmes pastiches more often than not. I cannot help but compare Adrian's work to his father's, and conclude with disappointment the lack of original, creative ideas, captivating plot and character descriptions which made Sir Arthur's work so exceptional.
It was not a bad reading though. There was a repetitiveness in the stories' structure and character interactions, yet I did not regret the time spent on discovering how a legendary writer's son tries to follow his father's legacy.

[Alireza · Rating 2 out of 5]

It can be recommended ONLY in case that you've already finished all 60 stories of Sherlock Holmes but you are still eager enough to read a pastiche.

"تنها" در صورتی پیشنهاد می‌شود که تمامِ ۶۰ داستان شرلوک هولمز را تمام کرده باشید ولی هنوز اینقدر مشتاق باشید که داستان‌های تقلیدی پسر آرتور کانن دویل را هم بخوانید!

[Victor · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very well written Holmes pastiche. The language is admirably similar to the senior Doyle and the descriptions are equally detailed and succeeds in creating the atmosphere.The quality of the stories are closer to the late originals .In other words they are not in the same bracket as the stories from first 3 Holmes compilations .
However,the atmosphere and period details are immaculate and the stories are enjoyable if not very remarkable except a couple. They do not touch the lofty standards of late Arthur but Adrian is no slouch either .

[Ismail · Rating 5 out of 5]

এক কথায় দারুণ। শার্লক হোমসের যত প্যাস্টিশ পড়েছি, তার মধ্যে এটাই সেরা লেগেছে। মানের দিক দিয়ে বলব, জন ডিকসন কারের সঙ্গে যৌথভাবে লেখা কাহিনিগুলোর চেয়ে অ্যাড্রিয়ান কোনান ডয়েলের নিজস্ব গল্পগুলো অনেক বেশি মূলানুগ এবং ভালো। তবে অনুবাদের বিষয়ে আপত্তি আছে। অদ্রীশ বর্ধনের মূল শার্লক হোমসের অনুবাদ পড়েছি, যথেষ্ট প্রাঞ্জল ছিল; কিন্তু এ-বইটা অনুব���দের সময় কেন যেন তিনি বাড়াবাড়ি ধরনের কঠিন বাক্য ও অলংকার ব্যবহার করেছেন, অনেক ক্ষেত্রেই হোঁচট খেতে হয়েছে। এটুকু খেদ বাদ দিলে বাকি সবই চমৎকার। কল্পবিশ্বের এডিশনে টীকা ও মূল ইলাস্ট্রেশনের ব্যবহার বাড়তি আনন্দ দিয়েছে। হাইলি রেকমেণ্ডেড।

[Barbm1020 · Rating 4 out of 5]

These stories are very authentic in tone and plot, and the characters remain as Doyle created them. I did find it jarring to revisit that world and that style, and as good as they are, I wasn't ready for a journey that far into the past and didn't finish the book. I recommend it for true blue fans.

[Ramy · Rating 3 out of 5]

كتب ارثر كونان دويل مغامرات ل شيرلوك هولمز ثم ملّ من الامر فتوقف بأن جعله يسقط من على شلال فى حضن البروفيسير موريارتي ...
هاج و ماج الناس و ارسلو خطابات ل ارثر كونان دويل و ل دار النشر و للصحف يطالبوه بإرجاع شيرلوك هولمز
حتى ان اصدقاؤه المقربين لاموه و طالبوه بإرجاع شيرلوك هولمز و فعلا ارجعه فى مجموعة مغامرات جعله فى نهايتها يتقاعد و هو مسن "هناك مغامرة اخيرة هو و د واتسون"و هما كبار السن .. ليربي النحل....

اكمل كتّاب اخرون كثر ...حكايات و قصص و روايات طويلة على نفس نهج ارثر كونان دويل
..مغامرات لما يقم بها شيرلوك هولمز ابدا و لم يكتبها اثر كونان دويل جعلوه هؤلاء الكتاب يقوم بها

ف مجتش يعني على ابنه "الاصغر" و مؤلف مشارك له ...
القصص هنا فى هذه المجموعة لاحظت فيها ملاحظتين :
1 فكرة ذكية استخدام عناوين مغامرات أشار اليها - و لم يكتبها - ارثر كونان دويل و لم يقم بها ابدا شيرلوك هولمز
هى عناوين قصص كان يبدأ بها اثر كونان دويل القصة او ينهيها بها على لسان او قلم د واتسون
كأن يقول ان مغامرتنا هذه حدثت بعد مغامرة "كذا"...
مغامرة كذا دي لم تكتب ابدا ....فيأتي كونان دويل الابن بعد هذه السنين ليستخدم العنوان و يخلق له قصة ...

2 القصة الجديدة هنا المستخدمة للعنوان القديم ...هى ليست مستحدثة من العدم ..لا خالص
المتابع لقصص شيرلوك هولمز سيلاحظ ان كل قصة من قصص المجموعة هنا ...هى مستنسخة من قصة شبيهة موجودة ب الفعل ل ارثر كونان دويل
= حبكة جريمة القتل فى بيت او قصر او قلعة و القاتل يعتقد الناس انه فلان و قد قُبض عليه او هرب و يثبت هولمز انه ليس هو و انه بريء
= حبكة القريب الذى يقتل اقاربه تباعا طمعا فى ان يرث
= حبكة الشخص ذو الماضي الغير مشرف (جمع ثروة من الاجرام - او نهب حق شخص) و هناك من يأتي بعد كل تلك السنين للانتقام منه
= حبكة من يصله رسالة بشيفرة سرية لدنو موعد موته
= حبكة من يتم تهديدها ب خطابات مسيئة ان لم تنصاع و تدفع مال او تتنازل عن مستندات بالغة الاهمية
= حبكة من يستخدم فى القتل حيوان او حشرة سامة

الخلاصة ...الابن و الكاتب المشارك معه ....استخدمو "عناوين" قصص لم يكبها كونان دويل ....و استخدام حبكات قصص دويل وبطله و زمانه و لغة تلك الزمان .... ليخرجوا بتلك القصص المفبركة و إن كانت مش بطالة ....تؤدي الغرض من الاستمتاع

الكتاب القادم : دليل رائد فضاء إلى العيش على كوكب الأرض

[Dave · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pastiche is kind of a double-edged sword: if you’re too faithful, it’s boring, and if you’re too innovative, you’re no longer doing pastiche. I tend to prefer the latter problem, since I’m usually perfectly happy with all of the authentic versions of stories, and any “continuations” generally seem pale and lifeless to me.

The Holmes stories seem to have the most continuations out there, of varying quality. I have enjoyed many that I’ve read—including this book—because I like Holmes and it’s all very comfortable. But when it’s too faithful, like this book, you start comparing to the originals—and honestly, compared to the best Arthur Conan Doyle stories, all of these are only OK.

My favorites in this volume are the one that reminds me of “The Speckled Band,” and the one that reminds me of “Silver Blaze.” But the best ones are probably “The Sealed Room” and “The Highgate Miracle,” which are much more like John Dickson Carr.

Since you asked, my favorite written Holmes pastiches are the ones by Anthony Horowitz, the early Hercule Poirot stories by Agatha Christie, and the Solar Pons stories by August Derleth.

[pearl_seeker · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first half of the book are stories by Adrian Conan Doyle WITH John Dickson Carr. These stories I really didn't like. The deductions employed by Holmes in these stories were so ridiculous as to invoke images of pulling a white rabbit out of a hat. I wondered *why* I had ever liked Sherlock Holmes stories as they seemed so far-fetched, so manipulated, so deus ex machine. I considered quitting the book -something I rarely ever do!

But, the second half of the book contains stories written solely by Adrian Conan Doyle and *these* were stories so reminiscent of the original Arthur Conan Doyle stories that I immediately felt the connection. I remembered *why* I loved the original stories, the warmth between Holmes and Watson, the connection Holmes had to others - his gentleness, his frailties, his humanity. The Holmes in the first half was a caricature, the Holmes in the second half was a beloved and well-known character.

The second half of this book is definitely worth the time!

[Sr3yas · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 Stars
This book is an imitation game. It's written like Sir Doyle's work,but without much of the original's magic. There are some stories which came close to great but is overshadowed by the rest of short stories which are either derivative or poorly executed.

Rather than exploits of sherlock holmes, some stories felt like exploiting of Sherlock Holmes !

Personal Favorite: Adventure of highgate miracle and Adventure of sealed Room

[Ahcene HAMIDOUCHE · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ce dont je suis certain à présent, après avoir lu ces douze nouvelles, écrites par John Dickson Carr, et Adrian Conan Doyle (fils de sir Arthur), c'est que les connaissances littéraires sont loin de suffire pour reproduire ce qu'avait Arthur Conan Doyle accompli avec le personnage de Sherlock Holmes. Ce travail n'a pas ramené de neuf sinon la preuve irréfutable du génie de son créateur.

[Shauna · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book, written mostly by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's son, Adrian, was entertaining. The mysteries were interesting. However, Adrian lacks his father's polish. Holmes uses the same catch phrases in several stories, and the plot is solely the mystery at hand. There is no character growth.

[Alaa Ahmad · Rating 4 out of 5]

حبكات القصص مش جديدة خالص، بس فكرة انك تاخد عناوين تم الإشارة ليها في الكتب الأصلية وتعمل بيها ١٢ قصة دي حلوة جداً + حبيت القصص اللي اشترك في كتابتها جون كار عن اللي كتبها أدريان لوحده.

[SuZanne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kudos to Adrian Conan Doyle for this lively collection of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson capers. The language is brilliant and his tone has stayed true to his father, Sr Arthur Conan Doyle's original tales.

There are clever little notes at the end of each tale, so we readers can discover how the younger Doyle wrote his tales based upon short references in Sri Arthur's tales. For example, this passage, "At the present instant one of the most revered names in England is being besmirched by a blackmailer and only I can stop a disastrous scandal" from "The Hound of the Baskervilles is used by Adrian Doyle to write "The Adventure of the Two Women."

Two Women" is one of my favorite capers in the collection of "exploits" written by Adrian Doyle. The first six Doyle co-authored with John Dickson Carr, while the last six Doyle alone writes; his language usage is noteworthy. "My watch showed me that is was after eleven o'clock when our hansom deposited us at the corner of Charles II Street. It was a moist, chill night with a hint of fog in the air that hung round the street-lamps in dim yellow haloes and glistened on the cape of the policeman who slowly passed us by, switching his bull's-eye lantern into the porticoes of the dark silent houses." Do not these words take you there on that night in London in 1886?

"Above the rays of the oil-lamp, I beheld an ivory-tinted face with dark, sombre eyes and a beautiful, scarlet, remorseless mouth." With this character description, we can see right off what kind of woman this character will be.

The more I read the more I appreciate the craft of writing in the hands of those like Adrian Conan Doyle. It's not only an engaging storyline or meaningful theme but the language usage that holds my interest.

Pick it up at your local library or used books store, for as far as I know, its last publication date was 1976.

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

The apple not only fell far from the tree, but it rolled down the hill and pretty much out of sight. While Adrian, Arthur's son, perfectly captures the period--the hansom cabs, the dottles of tobacco in the numerous pipes, the reliable wonderment of Dr. Watson, and the cool, analytical intellect of Sherlock Holmes, the exciting climaxes of Holmes's deductions kind of left me with an "oh, I guess I sort of get it" feeling rather than the "amazing! How did he do it?" feeling that I have always gotten from reading Arthur's original stories. When the curtain is pulled away, Oz is a tiny logician desperately putting clues (or clews) together to see if he can get them to stand up under scrutiny. For me, most of them didn't.

[Muneeza · Rating 3 out of 5]

These stories are written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's son using the notes his father left behind. Although he did an impressive job of imitating his father's writing style, there was something missing in the how the details of each mystery came together.

Nevertheless, a nice treat for fans of Sherlock Holmes.

[Edward Eaton · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm so torn about this. The Victorian gothic imagary is perfect but the writing frankly sucks. Making massive jumps based on tiny bits of evidence simply isn't believeable. Also some of the conclusions are down right stupid. I wish I could have just gone with it and enjoyed it like a game of Cluedo but it felt more believable than a game of Operation.