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2010 October 7
The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Puffin Classics Relaunch)
Since the strange case of “The Red-Headed League” into the extraordinary tale of “The Engineer’s Thumb,” Sherlock Holmes & his assistant Dr. Watson deal with betrayal, murder & ingenious crimes of all kinds. But is never the case is very unique power into challening immortal detective deduction.
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Review by Eileen T for The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Puffin Classics Relaunch)
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This book included 12 adventures:
1. A Scandal in Bohemia
2. The Red-Headed League
3. A Case of Identity
4. The Boscombe Valley Mystery
5. The Five Orange Pips
6. The Man with the Twisted Lip
7. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
8. The Adventure of the Speckled Band
9. The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb
10. The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
11. The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
12. The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Great classic literature. I really enjoy reading Holmes and Watson’s adventures, solving the mystery, and putting the puzzles together.
Review by Kent Davis for The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Puffin Classics Relaunch)
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This free Kindle download is the prelude to The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless tales are perfect for Kindle and, actually, the Kindle’s electronic voice does an admirable job of reading them to you!
Special thanks to Eileen T for posting the list of stories contained within!
The only downside to this free Kindle download is that it doesn’t have linked Table of Contents. So how do you quickly skip to a chapter later in the book?
Elementary my dear Watson! (-:
Pick a unique word from the story title. Click MENU > “Search this book”
Then type the most unique words from the title. Alas, this doesn’t always work, and I can’t figure out why. A new mystery! In the meantime, enjoy the classics….
Review by Karen Ann Angleterre for The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Puffin Classics Relaunch)
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English history is served up along with the amazing mystery stories. I enjoy the pictures of daily life…the maid bringing in lunch to Holmes on a pre-arranged schedule, passing the street vendors and beggars, imagining the opium den frequented by addicts, vivid descriptions of period clothing, transportation and commerce slipped seamlessly into the tales. I read this often to refresh the imagery in my mind.
Review by John S. Ryan for The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Puffin Classics Relaunch)
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This massive collection of Holmes pastiches is a worthwhile addition to a Sherlockian collection although not all of its entries are of the same quality. The tales themselves range from excellent through serviceable to downright silly, with only a handful approximating the quality of Doyle’s original stories. Nevertheless the overall quality is very good, despite some jarring notes here and there (more, of course, in some tales than in others). Also helpful is the mass of information assembled at the rear of the volume. Here we find a complete chronology of Holmes’s cases — not only those recorded by Doyle, but also a fair number of those recorded by others (including the contributors to this volume). Also most helpful is the chronology’s inclusion of Watson’s unpublished cases, to which he often alluded in passing. Some of these have since been published (in some cases in several versions by several authors; such instances of redundancy typically include pastiches by Adrian Conan Doyle and June Thomson). There is also a list — not a complete list, which would have occupied a full volume of its own — of the Holmes tales extant as of 1997, together with helpful information on their authors. (The list omits those tales in which Holmes is not a central character — e.g. Carole Nelson Douglas’s “Irene Adler” series — and those which are of a clearly fantastic nature, in which Holmes encounters e.g. Dracula or Edwin Drood.) This valuable list will be helpful to readers who wish to track down works by other pastiche artists of note — say, Denis O. Smith (who is represented in this volume) or June Thomson (who unfortunately is not). The volume closes with capsules of information regarding each of the contributors. The tales themselves are in most instances culled from Watson’s allusions to unpublished cases and are presented in what purports to be chronological order. We find, for example, the business of the Abernettys (drawn to Holmes’s attention by a remark about the depth to which the parsley had sunk into the butter on a hot day); the Darlington substitution scandal; the “very simple” case Holmes had handled for Mary Morstan’s employer, Mrs. Cecil Forrester; the matter of the Amateur Mendicant Society; the case of the Grice Petersons on the isle of Uffa; the tragedy of the Atkinson brothers; the matter of the Addleton curse; the death of Crosby the banker; the story of the red leech; the Abergavenny murders; and a matter Holmes handled under a commission from the Sultan of Turkey. Some of these cases have been written up before, of course, in versions that are quite irreconcilable with those presented here. Moreover, in a handful of cases there are at least superficial conflicts internal to this volume itself: the “red leech,” for example, is dealt with in passing in a second tale, and the business of the Abernettys is mentioned in passing in terms that do not seem to suit the version of the tale included here. Editor Mike Ashley tries valiantly to deal with some of these conflicts. However, since few of these tales appear to be authentic in the first place, these difficulties are merely apparent. Not many of the pastiches contained herein reach the standards set by the best of Doyle’s tales. But the majority of them are better than the worst of the originals. And in general, the pastiches in the short-story genre are usually, to my mind, _much_ better than the novel-length ones. In that field Nicholas Meyer has many competitors but few rivals.
Review by Godly Gadfly for The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Puffin Classics Relaunch)
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Although he also wrote several novels featuring the world’s greatest fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, it was especially in his short stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle perfected the Holmes formula. And of the five collections of Holmes short stories (about a dozen in each collection), “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (published in 1892) was the first and is easily the most popular and best of the five. It contains all except one of the five all-time most popular short stories in the Sherlock Holmes canon (A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-headed League, The Blue Carbuncle, and The Speckled Band), as well as some other gems like The Five Orange Pips. For newcomers to Holmes, this there is no better place to start than with the dozen stories that comprise “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”. And for long-time fans, these are old favorites worth reading again and again.
Here’s a list of the stories in this collection (with the better stories marked with stars):
***A Scandal in Bohemia, 1891 – The very first and one of the top five Sherlock Holmes short stories. After some brilliant detective work involving disguises and acting, Holmes is outwitted by the woman Irene Adler in his quest to help the hereditary king of Bohemia regain a scandalous photograph from her.
***The Red-headed League, 1891 – Generally regarded as all-time second best Sherlock Holmes story, this bizarre tale features a pawnbroker who is paid money to join the mysterious Red-Headed League and copy out Encyclopedia Britannica, as part of an ingenious scheme to rob a bank.
A Case of Identity, 1891 – Holmes solves the mystery of Mary Sutherland’s fiance who disappears on the morning of his wedding, unmasking it as scheme hatched by her greedy step-father.
The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 1891 – Charles McCarthy’s son seems the obvious murderer of his father after a violent quarrel, so it is up to Holmes to show that the murder has its real roots in the Australian past of the dead man and his landlord.
**The Five Orange Pips, 1891 – One of Doyle’s personal favorites, this tale recounts the death of two men, both preceded by the arrival of five mysterious orange pips. In one of his few failures, Holmes connects the events to the Ku Klux Klan, but not soon enough to prevent another death.
*The Man with the Twisted Lip, 1891 – A baffling mystery about Mr. Neville St. Clair who disappears from a room into thin air, and a professional beggar who is the suspected murderer.
***The Blue Carbuncle, 1892 – Another favorite all-time top 5 Holmes story, as Holmes unravels how a blue diamond ended up inside the goose intended for Mr. Henry Baker’s Christmas dinner.
***The Speckled Band, 1892 – Universally regarded as the most popular short story in the Sherlock Holmes canon, and easily one of the more suspenseful and chilling. The engaged Helen Stoner is terrified when she hears the same strange whistling that preceded the death of her twin sister in a locked bedroom shortly before her wedding. Her step-father Dr. Grimesby Roylott, a evil and greedy man with a passion for exotic pets like his cheetah and baboon, is the suspected villain – but how could he do it? The only clue are the mysterious words of Helen’s dying sister about “speckled band”…
The Engineer’s Thumb, 1892 – Victor Hatherley, a hydraulic engineer, is offered a lucrative contract to go to a secret location at night to fix a fuller’s earth press, but why does he lose his thumb and nearly his life in the process? As Holmes says to the engineer about the missing thumb: “Indirectly it may be of value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your existence.”
The Noble Bachelor, 1892 – When Lord St. Simon’s new American wife goes missing shortly after their wedding, it is up to Holmes to find both her and the reason for her disappearance,
The Beryl Coronet – Expensive jewels are mysteriously damaged in the home of a wealthy banker, his ill-reputed son the prime suspect.
The Copper Beeches, 1892 – Violet Hunter is paid an exorbitant sum to be a governness at a house called The Copper Beeches. Her employment includes some strange stipulations, such as cutting her hair short and wearing a particular blue dress – but why?
- GODLY GADFLY