The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Reading time
- 7 hr 37 min read
- Chapters
- 13 chapters
Small incidents make room for exacting deductions in twelve cases recorded by Sherlock Holmes’s friend Watson.
About this book
Arthur Conan Doyle’s collection brings together twelve Sherlock Holmes stories, from “A Scandal in Bohemia” to “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches.” Recorded by Watson, these cases give the private investigator scope for the deduction and logical reasoning he regards as his special province. Holmes values a seemingly minor incident as much as a celebrated trial when it offers a problem worth examining.
Yet Watson’s accounts make room for more than reasoning alone. A late-night appeal for help interrupts a quiet household in “The Man with the Twisted Lip”; elsewhere, Holmes and Watson debate whether a case should be told with colour and life or reduced to cause and effect. Their disagreement brings a personal edge to this collection of English detective stories.
Why read this?
The exchanges between Holmes and Watson offer a gently barbed account of how detective stories are made: one prizes strict reasoning, while the other defends narrative life. The short-story format gives that tension twelve separate settings.
Contents
- Front matter0 min
- I. A Scandal In Bohemia43 min
- II. The Red-Headed League46 min
- III. A Case Of Identity35 min
- IV. The Boscombe Valley Mystery48 min
- V. The Five Orange Pips37 min
- VI. The Man With The Twisted Lip46 min
- VII. The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle39 min
- VIII. The Adventure Of The Speckled Band49 min
- IX. The Adventure Of The Engineer’s Thumb42 min
- X. The Adventure Of The Noble Bachelor41 min
- XI. The Adventure Of The Beryl Coronet49 min
- XII. The Adventure Of The Copper Beeches50 min
Source & rights
- Source:
- Project Gutenberg
- Gutenberg ID:
- 1661
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