Sherlock Holmes Investigates and The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

"Sherlock Holmes". Chi non conosce Sherlock Holmes che, con la sua inesorabile catena di deduzioni, riesce a far luce sui misteri più fitti e a svelare le trame dei più agguerriti adepti del crimine? Questo libro raccoglie alcune delle indagini più esemplari del grande investigatore privato britannico il quale, con le sole armi dell'intelligenza e della capacità di osservazione, riesce a risolvere casi in apparenza insolubili. "Il mastino dei Baskerville". Una qualità indispensabile che deve avere un bravo detective è la capacità di osservare per farlo ci vuole concentrazione, un'attenzione meticolosa a ogni particolare anche apparentemente secondario, una grande acutezza per interpretare correttamente il significato di ogni dettaglio e l'attitudine a collegare logicamente ogni elemento. Insomma, le prove e gli indizi ci sono, ma è necessario saperli individuare e capire, facendo funzionare il cervello. È l'arte di ragionare che fa vincere Sherlock Holmes, e le sue avventure ci sfidano ad apprendere questa virtù. Età di da 10 anni.

Genres: Fiction

182 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1998

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

[Katherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."

Sherlock Holmes, our beloved and eccentric fictional sleuth teaches us that the devil is truly in the details.

'See the value of imagination,' said Holmes. [...] 'We imagined what might have happened, acted upon the supposition, and find ourselves justified.'

Holmes's genius is grounded on his philosophy of life—the belief that no human being is exempt from depravity—which allows him to invoke the power of his imagination to recreate crime scenes.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle presents these rather somber cases in a polished, yet not in an overly sanitized manner. They are far from sensationalized, and contain just the right dose of suspense to make me want to keep turning the pages.