An invention of twelve stories, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the third book in the first Sherlock Holmes series. It brings out the encounters of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes, a sociopath, as he attempts to disentangle the mystery of every investigation he participates in. Set in late nineteenth-century London, the novel makes a fruitful thrilling plot, yet is located in real areas like Hyde Park, the stream Thames, St George's Church in Hanover Square along with fictitious spots to zest things up. The ...
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An invention of twelve stories, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the third book in the first Sherlock Holmes series. It brings out the encounters of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes, a sociopath, as he attempts to disentangle the mystery of every investigation he participates in. Set in late nineteenth-century London, the novel makes a fruitful thrilling plot, yet is located in real areas like Hyde Park, the stream Thames, St George's Church in Hanover Square along with fictitious spots to zest things up. The dynamic repeating representations of London's method of transportation are likewise significant. The first story of the series begins in the renowned apartment 221B Baker Street, home to Sherlock Holmes who is visited by clients needing help with settling different issues. Sherlock Holmes does something amazing to track down a sensible answer for every secret. Described through the viewpoint of Dr. Watson, Holmes's companion and a dear friend, he monitors him as he accompanies or is given a full record of the succession of occasions encompassing examination. Watson then reports each experience and offers it to the readers which get published as journals of Holmes' accomplishments. This kind of portrayal upgrades the atmosphere of the mystery of each case due to the periodic missing details and leaves the reader pondering the following strategy. Strangely, Holmes offers intelligent clarifications for every one of his answers. Family fortune, notoriety, societal position, and moral shortcoming are a portion of the subjects. Doyle creates in his novels both anticipation and secret. Doyle's utilization of nineteenth-century English vernaculars ends up being admired by the readers yet he successfully follows a clear writing style that is simple to be followed. For those who are about to venture into the reading experience with the line smoking, violin-playing investigator, this is only the start of a journey of a lifetime.
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Although the stories are short they are nevertheless excellent reading.
Enjoyable .
sarab
Feb 18, 2010
Learning About English Culture with Sherlock H.
I am 80% done with the book but it is for adult reading and would not reccommend this book for a minor. It glamorizes drug use.
Love the book, I am learning about English culture this is my first Sherlock Holmes book.
rob10
Dec 31, 2009
adventures
Bought the Oxford Press edition of this book to read the references indicated during the stories - also easier to handle than my unabridged sherlock holmes.
DrewGirl
May 2, 2007
short and logical
This book is composed of twelve short Sherlock Holmes stories: A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-headed League, A Case of Identity, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Five Orange Pips, The Man with the Twisted Lip (my personal favorite), The Blue Carbuncle, The Speckled Band, The Engineer's Thumb, The Noble Bachelor, The Beryl Coronet and The Copper Beeches. Although I've long been a fan of Laurie King's Mary Russell novels, which are semi-pastiches of the Holmes series, my only experience of the original Sherlock Holmes has been limited to my dim recollection of reading The Red-Headed League in high school and of watching a few of the BBC television episodes with my dad! Several years ago, I tried reading one of Conan Doyle's novel-length works but was rapidly turned off by the slow development of the plot and did not finish it. Reading this book, though, was a much better experience and I'm so glad I chose it. I think that the author's skill and the Holmes "genre" itself are much better seen and enjoyed in short stories. None of the stories are thrilling or heart-pounding; that is not what made Sherlock Holmes mysteries so great. Instead, they each follow a rather simple pattern: Holmes and Watson are introduced to a short, bewildering mystery that is quickly and, to Watson's never ending surprise, easily solved by Holmes, who then calmly gives a detailed analysis of the case and his logical steps to solving it! This set-up must be what made Sherlock Holmes such a refreshing character and what made the books so popular!
