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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Volume 2
Speckled band.
Five orange pips.
Man with the twisted lip.
Blue carbuncle.
Five orange pips.
Man with the twisted lip.
Blue carbuncle.
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Published January 6, 1998
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Arthur Conan Doyle
15.9k books24.5k followersSir 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.
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.
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July 26, 2024
my fav story was “the reigate squire” just because i, as a reader, could sense how intimately Watson knew Holmes, i could feel his admiration for Holmes emanating from the pages. i love them together!!
other than that, i kept calculating how many pages till this story ends- which is, needless to say, never a good sign.
the findings and the reveals at the end did not feel very satisfying in any of the stories- i am, generally speaking, not a fan of short stories- i feel they don’t allow you the space to soak up the story, they seem very fast paced, even if that isn’t what the writer intended. so, it could be a “not-liking-short-stories-in-general” case rather than a “this-book-was-bad” case, i will, hopefully, be picking up The Hound of the Baskervilles in the near future to see if it is, indeed the author or if it was my aversion to short stories that stood in the way of me fully enjoying this book.
other than that, i kept calculating how many pages till this story ends- which is, needless to say, never a good sign.
the findings and the reveals at the end did not feel very satisfying in any of the stories- i am, generally speaking, not a fan of short stories- i feel they don’t allow you the space to soak up the story, they seem very fast paced, even if that isn’t what the writer intended. so, it could be a “not-liking-short-stories-in-general” case rather than a “this-book-was-bad” case, i will, hopefully, be picking up The Hound of the Baskervilles in the near future to see if it is, indeed the author or if it was my aversion to short stories that stood in the way of me fully enjoying this book.
May 5, 2023
It was fine. I think I was just tired but it was kinda slow and the stories just felt like Sherlock Holmes solved it all without any clues, so not like much of an adventure and the twist wasn’t very twisty. I’ll try a full length boon and maybe I will like it more!
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