The Gully of Bluemansdyke, and Other stories

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Jen Haines, Suzanne Shell

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Genres: Short Stories, Adventure, Mystery, Classics

202 pages, Paperback

Published January 25, 2018

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

[Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Surprisingly good experience. I liked these short stories, I will definitely read more from ACD!

[Yibbie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a group of Doyle’s short stories. It’s more varied than many of the collections of his works. The stories are set in countries around the world and are many different genres. It includes…
The Gully of Bluemansdyke - It’s not so much a mystery as a tale of justice and vengeance. It’s good. I just wish he’d expanded it to a novel instead of leaving it a short story.
The Parson of Jackman’s Gulch - That one is fun. Rather unexpected after the beginning story.
My Friend the Murderer - It’s the weakest story of the lot. The villain in the first story whines about the treatment he receives as a government “peach”. I think Doyle was trying to be funny, but it just didn’t work for me. Not only that, but the language was the worst I have ever seen in his works. I won’t be reading that one again.
The Silver Hatchet - This is one of Doyle’s supernatural thrillers. Not that you’d suspect that from the beginning. It was just a little freaky.
The Man from Archangel - I’d say it’s a gothic romance. I don’t like gothic romances. But if you like that sort of thing, you would probably say it was good.
The Little Square Box - There are so many things that I want to say about this story, but I can’t. Anything I would say would give away everything. I will say Doyle completely surprised me. It was really good.
A Night Among The Nihilists - Nice rollicking little adventure. Never say die! No matter how crazy the adventure you stumble on.

[William · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful entertaining listening 🔰😀

Seven will written mystery thriller short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Each story has different interesting will developed characters and location with lots of action and misdirection leading to each unexpected conclusion. I would highly recommend this novel to readers of mysteries and fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Enjoy the adventure of reading 👓 or 🎶 listening to 👍novels 🔰😄2022

[Teemu Öhman · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Gully of Bluemansdyke is an early ACD short story, first published in London Society magazine in 1881. It's a surprisingly bloody adventure/revenge story set in Australia. Rather predictable but entertaining enough.

The version I read is not an annotated version but just a part of a Kindle compilation like the others I've been reading lately.

3.5/5

[Simone S · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoy so much how Doyle writes stories that I enjoyed this admittedly minor work of his.

[Mick · Rating 1 out of 5]

I like ACD usually, Holmes or otherwise, but this collection of stories is not my cup of tea. It lacks the sparkle I find in other books by him that I've read.

[Laura]

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