مغامرة لبدة الأسد وقصص أخرى

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes #9

by Arthur Conan Doyle, آرثر كونان دويل, رفيف غدار (ترجمة)

يضم هذا الكتاب القصص 9-12 من سلسلة “قضايا شيرلوك هولمز” + آخر قضايا شيرلوك هولمز، وهي:

مغامرة لِبدة الأسد
مشكلة صانع الألوان المتقاعد
لغز النّزيلة المنقَّبة
لغز قصر شوسكومْب
الظهور الأخير

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

198 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1926

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

[Aishu Rehman · Rating 1 out of 5]

Holmes’ friend Harold Stackhurst is the headmaster of a nearby preparatory school called The Gables. Holmes is enjoying his retirement in Sussex when one day at the beach, he meets Stackhurst. No sooner have they met than Stackhurst’s science master, Fitzroy McPherson, staggers up to them, obviously in agony and wearing only an overcoat and trousers. He collapses, manages to mumble something about a “lion’s mane”, then dies. He has red welts all over his back, administered by a flexible weapon of some kind, as the marks curve over his shoulder and round his ribs.

Moments later, Ian Murdoch, a mathematics teacher, shows up. He has not seen the attack, and claims to have only just arrived from the school. Holmes sees other people far up the beach, but they are too far away to have been involved in McPherson’s death. Murdoch and McPherson had been friends, but Murdoch had a bad temper and had once threw McPherson’s dog through a plate-glass window. Despite this, Stackhurst is sure that they were friends, but if this is the case – who murdered McPherson?

[Janete on hiatus due health issues · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting, but not remarkable.

SYNOPSIS: "The Lion's Mane takes place in Sussex. Sherlock Holmes, now retired, lives in a small villa near the beach. One morning, a local school teacher is found near his favorite bathing spot with horrific wounds all over his bare back. He shrieks out with his dying breath the mysterious words "the Lion’s Mane." Suspicion soon falls on a fellow teacher.

The Adventure of the Lion's Mane has the distinction of being the only story in the Sherlock Holmes Canon to describe Holmes' life in retirement. It is also one of the most unusual tales of the series. The story is narrated by Holmes himself and does not feature Dr. Watson at all."

[Katja Labonté · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 stars & 5/10 hearts. This is such a dramatic story that really fires the imagination, and I love it. Being one of the rare stories narrated by Holmes, after his retirement, it’s quite unique, and shows more of the detective than is revealed in his earlier self-narrated Adventure of the Blanched Soldier.

The plot of this story is gripping and extremely twisty, leaving me baffled until the very end. The characters are really interesting—a dour mathematics professor with a passionate temper; a weak-hearted but athletic science professor, reported to be both friends and not friends with said the mathematics professor; a beautiful love interest whose buff father and brothers are not in the slightest supportive of her love interest; a badly puzzled school principal; and a mysterious, ‘savage, inhuman’ scourging.

There is nothing more to be said that doesn’t spoil the story, but rest assured it is one of the best Sherlock tales!

Content: For G*d’s sake; my G*d; or He**en’s sake.

“But how did you know, Mr. Holmes?”
“I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.”

[Diamond Cowboy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an other great adventure by our favorite Master Detective Mr. Sherlock Holmes. This takes place after he has retired to his bee keeping and concerns a grewsome murder. His old friend DR. John Watson is visiting him at the time.
Please read it. You will enjoy it.

[Bill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Now retired & keeping bees in Sussex Sherlock Holmes once gain finds himself drawn into investigating a mysterious death. Narrated by Holmes, instead of Watson, this is a fine story with an unusual conclusion.

[Dhia Nouioui · Rating 1 out of 5]

Seems like Doyle is just getting desperate for storylines at that point.

[Federico DN · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ok.

This was ok, but not going to review it.

For the moment at least.

It’s public domain. You can find it HERE.

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PERSONAL NOTE :
[1927] [30p] [Crime] [Not Recommendable]
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★★★★☆ 1. A Study in Scarlet [3.5]
★★★☆☆ 2. The Sign of Four [2.5]
★★★☆☆ 3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
★★★★☆ 4. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [3.5]
★★★★☆ 5. The Hound of the Baskervilles
★★★★☆ 6. The Return of Sherlock Holmes
★★★☆☆ 7. The Valley of Fear
★★★★☆ 8. His Last Bow [3.5]
★★★☆☆ 9. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes [2.5] <--
★★★☆☆ 10. The Complete Sherlock Holmes

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Ok.

Esto estuvo ok, pero no voy a reseñarlo.

Al menos por ahora.

Es dominio público, lo pueden encontrar ACA.

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NOTA PERSONAL :
[1927] [30p] [Crimen] [No Recomendable]
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[Tobi ﾄﾋﾞ · Rating 4 out of 5]

i actually got so sad when john mentioned that people expect sherlock to eventually fall in love with a woman and sherlock just goes silent and tries to explain (for the 98483th time) why he doesn’t want that and john is trying to tell him that it’s fine and he should do whatever he wants

also john a canon vegetarian lol ???

sherlock, now retried, lives in rural sussex, in the south downs, isolated from everyone except his housekeeper and his pet bees (yeah he’s a beekeeper). he very rarely sees john anymore, but spends a lot of time with another friend of his, who is an academic slash headmaster at a nearby school. he goes swimming once in a while with some of the other teachers at this school too, they’re all friends. he’s so happy it’s quite sweet, a great way to end the sherlock canon. only a few more stories to go :)

[Nikolay · Rating 3 out of 5]

My review is not about the Audio Cassette, rather than a collection of short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, titled after one of them, The Lion's Mane. It was the first book I read in English. It also turned out to be the first book about Sherlock Holmes that I read and, not unexpectedly, I found it quite enjoyable. The fact that it contained various short stories not that much connected with each other also made it a bit easier to read, taking in mind it was the first book I read in any foreign for me language.
I would guess there are not much negative opinions on the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and I'd recommend this book to any fan of Sherlock Holmes and mystery stories in general.

[Jason Parent · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a tough one to review. The solution was immediately and absolutely predictable from the outset, but would it have been when the tale was published? Also, Holmes' skills of observation are seriously lacking there are many ways he could have deduced that the victim had gone into the water, e.g., salt/brine/water on the victim, smell, muddy feet, etc. I think maybe Doyle was trying to cash in only at this point?

[رزان م.نور |صاحبة الأجدل ⭐️ · Rating 5 out of 5]

اليوم انهيت سلسلة شارلوك هولمز!
سعيدة لذلك وحزينة 😂😔❤️‍🩹
كانت سلسلة جميلة استمتعت جدا بقرائتها خلال الأشهر الماضية، الحمدلله..
برأيي هولمز كمحقق رهيب، كإنسان محتاج يشتعل على حاله ويتعاطف ويفهم المشاعر اكثر :)
واطسن اضفى نكهة جميلة للسلسة والقصص يلي ما كان فيها واطسن كنت اشعر انه في شي ناقص 😂
اكثر كتاب حبيته من السلسلة (وادي الخوف) بسبب النهاية غير المتوقعة.
من العبارات الجميلة:
"لا ينبغي لنا ان نضع في عقولنا أحكاماً مسبقة، علينا ان نتبع الحقيقة أينما تأخذنا دوماً"

"حين تحذف المستحيل فإن ما يبقى لابد ان يكون هو الحقيقة مهما بدا بعيد الاحتمال"

"اسمي شارلوك هولمز وعملي هو معرفة ما لا يعرفه الآخرون" 😂

"لا شيء اكثر خداعاً من الحقيقة الواضحة"

ستضل قرائتي لهذه السلسلة من الذكريات الجميلة بإذن الله ♥️
2024-10-16م

[Dr.Abdulwahab Alnaif · Rating 3 out of 5]

كلما اكتشفت رواية جديدة لارثر كونان دويل عن هولمز سارعت بقراءتها واستمتعت بها ايما استمتاع وهذه القاعدة تنطبق على كل روايته

افكر احياناً كيف ان الناس في عصر لا تلفزيون لا انترنت ولا حتى سينما كيف كانت تقع هذه الروايات في نفوسهم علماً انها صدرت عام ١٨٨٧ م اشعر انها خالدة ف الان وبعد قرابة ال ١٣٠ عام استمتع بها وكأنني ما رأيت في حياتي افلام جريمة ولا مسلسلات تحقيق او حتى رسوم اطفال عبقرية ( المحقق كونان ) وان روايات ارثر كونان دويل اشد وقعاً علي منها

رواية عن شخص يموت وهو في اخر انفاسه يذكر جملة من كلمتين ( لبدة الاسد ) والنهاية كانت عكس ما توقعت بصراحة ..

[Jill · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5⭐️ I knew too much before I finished this book, so the ending wasn’t a suppose to me. I also read Silver Blaze the day before so that what helped me figure it out.

[Joop · Rating 3 out of 5]

Op blz. 2 wist ik al wie de dader was. Leuk verhaal.

[Sw33t_heart89 · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5⭐️listen to audible.

[Amanda Artist Cat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ingenious! Sherlock, aren't you going to arrest that jellyfish? xD

[فاطِمة طه · Rating 3 out of 5]

فوائد القراءة.

[Elysa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is quite a fun one. As other reviewers mentioned, it is a little predictable, but I don't think it would have been during its initial publication. Even still, while I like a good murder mystery, I also like when the solution of the mystery isn't so much a villain, but rather accidents, misunderstandings, or animals. Like in this case! Maybe it isn't as exciting, but it makes the story stand out.

This is one of the very few stories by Doyle narrated only by Holmes. I read on wiki that this was because Doyle had initially intended for Holmes to "chronicle his own defeat" by having an expert give him the solution. I don't think Doyle's fans would have liked that though, and maybe he didn't think so either because Holmes solves it as usual!

[Rao Javed · Rating 2 out of 5]

Extremely disappointing and predictable. One expects a little more when Sherlock himself is transcribing but I guess it is better that Watson does his work on his own.
-Rao Umar

[John Yelverton · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have never been a fan of the mysteries which Sherlock Holmes narrates himself, nor when he retires and moves out into the country to become a bee keeper. That being said, this was a good mystery which keeps the reader wondering how the victim was killed right up until the very end like any good mystery should.

[AJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had this one figured out by page 2 or 3. Still, it was a fun read.

[Darinda · Rating 4 out of 5]

The ninth short story in The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes is retired, but a murder mystery intrigues him. An entertaining mystery.

[Ke]

Purposefully misleading to a fault, especially since Sherlock was the narrator.

[Preetam Chatterjee · Rating 5 out of 5]

#Binge Reviewing my previous Reads #Holmes

When I first read this in 2001, it was in the Bengali translation of Adrish Bardhan.

I knew immediately that something was different. The voice was not Watson’s. Gone was the warm filter of admiration, irritation, and human sympathy through which we usually encounter Sherlock Holmes. Instead, we had Holmes himself narrating, clipped and precise, chronicling his retirement in Sussex and his encounter with one of the strangest deaths in the canon.

Reading it at the time, I felt a little cheated—where was Watson?—but also oddly fascinated, as if Doyle had pulled back the curtain and allowed Holmes to speak directly at last.

The story takes place after Holmes has retired from Baker Street and settled into a quiet life on the Sussex Downs, where he devotes himself to beekeeping. But quietude does not last long: a local schoolmaster, Fitzroy McPherson, is found dying near the seashore, his body covered in livid red welts, gasping out only the words “the lion’s mane”.

At first glance, it looks like he has been brutally whipped or assaulted. Suspicion falls on his colleague Ian Murdoch, a man with a temper, but Holmes, even in retirement, cannot resist probing deeper.

The investigation is curious because it unfolds slowly, without Watson’s editorial pacing. Holmes describes his reasoning step by step, in his own detached manner. Without Watson’s awe or concern, the narrative feels cooler, more clinical—though also less dramatic. Reading it in 2001, I noticed how much I missed Watson’s emotional shading. Holmes is brilliant, yes, but as a narrator, he is all mind and little heart.

The solution, when it comes, is classic late Doyle: scientific, bizarre, and faintly gothic. The “lion’s mane” is not metaphorical at all, but literal—a reference to the Cyanea capillata, or giant jellyfish, whose long, stinging tentacles deliver venom that can cause death and leave terrible marks.

Fitzroy McPherson was stung while bathing, and his last words were not a cryptic clue but the desperate identification of his attacker: nature itself. Murdoch is cleared, the mystery is solved, and Holmes proves that even in retirement, he remains master of observation and logic.

At the time I first read it, the solution felt anticlimactic—no villain, no crime, just an unlucky encounter with a sea creature. But looking back now, I see the story’s deeper significance. It reflects Doyle’s own late-career fascination with the natural world and science.

He was moving away from grand conspiracies and master criminals into quieter, stranger territory, where the line between detective story and natural history blurred. The “criminal” here is not human malice but the danger lurking in nature, indifferent to human drama.

Holmes’ retirement setting adds another layer. Gone are the fog of London, the hansom cabs, and the thrill of the chase. Instead, we get sun, sea, cliffs, and the drone of bees. It is Holmes’ world in miniature: calm, methodical, almost pastoral. And yet danger still creeps in, reminding us that the detective can never fully escape mystery. Reading it in 2001, I remember feeling like this was Holmes in exile—still sharp, but somehow lonelier, his brilliance unsoftened by Watson’s companionship.

As a piece of detective fiction, The Lion’s Mane is not among Doyle’s strongest. The absence of Watson leaves it dry, the pace uneven, and the solution more a scientific curiosity than a thrilling reveal. Yet it remains memorable for its oddities. Seeing Holmes as narrator is intriguing, a chance to hear his voice unfiltered. And the use of a jellyfish as the culprit is both daring and faintly absurd, placing the story somewhere between a scientific case study and gothic horror.

What lingers most for me is its atmosphere. The Sussex coast is vividly drawn: the chalk cliffs, the glittering sea, the tranquil surface hiding unseen danger. Doyle transforms the setting into a metaphor for Holmes himself—serene on the surface, but always probing beneath. The giant jellyfish, with its hidden stings, becomes a fitting late-case adversary: silent, alien, implacable.

Reading it in 2001, when I was still young enough to crave the more sensational Holmes adventures, I found The Lion’s Mane puzzling, even unsatisfying. But now I see it as a curious, haunting footnote in the canon, one that reveals both Holmes’ old age and Doyle’s late style.

It is not dazzling but reflective, not thrilling but contemplative—a story about retirement, the persistence of danger, and the strange cases that find us even when we withdraw from the world.

The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane may not be Holmes at his most thrilling, but it is Holmes at his most unusual.

And sometimes, the oddities are what stay with us longest.

[Fay AlFalah · Rating 5 out of 5]

اسم الكتاب: مغامرة لُبدة الأسد - The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane
اسم الكاتب: آرثر كونان دويل - Arthur Conan Doyle
عدد الصفحات: 26 صفحة

نبذة عن الكاتب،،
السير آرثر إغناتيوس كونان دويل (22 مايو 1859 – 7 يوليو 1930) طبيب اسكتلندي وكاتب مشهور بتأليفه لقصص المحقق شرلوك هولمز التي تعد معلما بارزًا في الأدب البوليسي، وأيضا بابتكاره لشخصية البروفيسور تشالنجر ولإشاعته قضية باخرة ماري سليست الغامضة. كتاباته كانت غزيرة تضمنت قصص الفنتازيا وقصص الخيال العلمي والمسرحيات، وروايات رومانسية وواقعية وتاريخية.
نبذة عن شخصية شيرلوك هولمز،،
Sherlock Holmes شخصية خيالية لمحقق من أواخر القرن التاسع عشر وأوائل القرن العشرين ابتكرها الكاتب والطبيب الإسكتلندي سير آرثر كونان دويل. يعرّف هولمز نفسه على أنه "محقق استشاري" يتخذ من مدينة لندن مقرًا له، ويساعد رجال الشرطة والمحققين عندما لا يجدون حلولًا للجرائم التي تواجههم. اشتهر هولمز بمهارته في استخدام التفكير المنطقي، وقدرته على التنكر والتمويه، إضافة إلى استخدام معلوماته في مجال الطب الشرعي لحل أعقد القضايا. تعد شخصية شرلوك هولمز أشهر شخصية لمحقق خيالي على الإطلاق.
مختصر القصة،،
هذه القصة رُويَت على لسان شارلوك هولمز وهي واحدة من القصتين التي رواها شارلوك عوضاً عن جون واطسون الصديق المقرب للمحقق هولمز وهو الطبيب المرافق له في جميع قضاياه، تتحدث هذه القصة عن شاب "فيتزروي" تعرض للتعذيب الوحشي وتُرك على الشاطئ ليموت وعندما شاهده شارلوك أثناء المشي همس الرجل "لبدة الأسد" ومات وحس شارلوك أخبره إنه أمام قضية غير عادية! مَن الذي فعل هذه الفعلة المتوحشة؟ ولِم؟ أهوَ إيان ميردوك الذي يحب مودي أيضاً أم هما أخاها و والدها الرافضَيْن لزواجها من فيتزروي.
مراجعتي،،
قصة جميلة انهيتها في سويعات ونهاية غير متوقعة!
~اقتباسات،،
1- « أنا لا أرضىلابنتي بالزواج ممَّن ليسوا في منزلتها الاجتماعية »
2- لن يجد القارئ بين مغامراتي كلها قضيةً دفعتْني كليٍّا إلى بذل أقصىقدراتي كما فعلتْ هذه القضية، حتى إن مخيلتي لم تستطع تصوُّر حل لهذا اللغز. ~شيرلوك هولمز
3- إن وفاة الكلب راجعة إلى طبع الوفاء الجميل عند الكلاب. ! « في المكان نفسه »
4- لقد كان القبول بمثل هذا الثناء انخفاضًا بمبادئ المرء الأخلاقية.

[Abigail · Rating 3 out of 5]

La historia comienza con Shelrock platicándonos sobre cómo es su vida de retiro en Sussex, de nuevas amistades que ha hecho y de la relación que lleva con Watson (ya no muy frecuente). Sherlock habita una finca con sus abejas y su criada ancianita, cerca del colegio Harold Stackhurst.

Uno de esos amigos nuevos es el señor Stackhurst, en sus tiempos un estudiante muy aclamado y cuya relación comienza desde que Shelrock se muda a la región.
Un día están haciendo planes y justo cuando están hablando de su otro amigo/conocido Fitzroy McPherson (el profesor de ciencias), este aparece al final del sendero, se cae de bruces y cuando corren en su auxilio se dan cuenta de que ha muerto y con su último aliento enunció: "la melena de león".

Veremos cómo se resuelve el caso, quienes podrían ser los culpables, las relaciones personales del fallecido, y las deducciones de Shelrock de primera mano, porque él narra la historia. Para ser sincera, ya me dí cuenta de que mucho del personaje de Shelrock que amo se debe a las descripciones y percepción de Watson...
Resulta se runa historia menos... Interesante y misteriosa de lo que creí en un inicio, pero estuvo ok.

[Huy Trần Ngọc · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nếu "Cuộc hành trfnh của kế hoạch tàu Partington" là một mẩu truyện với nhiều tình tiết khó đoán biết và gây nhiều bất ngờ với mình; thì "Vụ án bờm sư tử" lại mang đến một kết cục có thể đoán trước được, nhưng cũng không kém phần thú vị.
Mặc dù cuộc khám phá của Holmes mở ra liên can đến rất nhiều nhân vật khác nhau, và tất cả họ đều có động cơ gây án (đây là một điểm đặc biệt vì sự khác biệt lớn nhất mà mình thấy giữa series Sherlock Holmes và Conan là trong khi Conan hay chỉ ra những nghi phạm để rồi tìm ra hung thủ, thì hung thủ trong Holmes lại thường xuyên là một nhân vật sau mới được giới thiệu); trớ trêu thay, "hung thủ" của vụ án này lại không phải là ai trong số đó, và mình cho rằng điều này là tương đối dễ đoán biết.
Câu chuyện không quá ly kỳ và hấp dẫn, tuy vậy mình vẫn đánh giá cao bởi khả năng miêu tả khung cảnh hùng vĩ ẩn chứa vô vàn nguy hiểm sườn núi nơi Holmes cư ngụ những năm về già.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall this was a rather good Holmes Story. Here we see Holmes further on in his life. Holmes and Watson seldom meet, as referenced to this at the start of the story. Holmes is on holiday on the South East Coast. Whilst out for a walk a man runs along screaming and dies. Upon examining the body are a series of bloody fine lined scars.

The story ensues with the dead owners dog dying of an apparent broken heart and two other people dying in a similar way. A regular old blood bath of a story.

This is definitely a very good story and enjoyable read, however, marked down in the starred rating, as, not just because this story was not written by Dr Watson, but by Holmes himself. I would have expected Arthur Conan Doyle to have changed the writing style to reflect a different writer.

[Amelia Bujar · Rating 1 out of 5]

FULL REVIEW ON MY WEBSITE
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To be fully honest here the plot in this one was very weak, but it was still somehow enjoyable but not so interesting as some other stories about Sherlock Holmes in my humble opinion.

The characters here are okay but when it comes to Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson they are an amazing due and I loved they both because they have something in them which makes us relate to them.

The writing style here was okay but I think that sir Arthur Conan Doyle could have done better in this book.

[Lloyd Hughes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sherlock has retired to the chalky cliffs on the coast. It’s a beautiful day so he decides to take a stroll to enjoy the day and the view. While he’s out he sees a teacher from a local school stumbling around like someone who was drunk. When the teacher collapsed Sherlock rushed to his aid. He arrived just in time to hear the dying man mumble ‘the lion’s mane’. Sherlock might be retired but he’s still got the magic. Because it Sherlock it rates 5 stars, which means it’s essential reading for people who like to read.