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Escándalo en bohemia y otros cuentos
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157 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2007
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Arthur Conan Doyle
15.8k books24.3k 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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August 7, 2018
A remarkable collection.
August 22, 2012
These six short stories about Sherlock Holmes each run about thirty pages, which isn’t really enough time to set up a mystery and throw a lot of red herrings at you, but what the author does instead is give you a long backstory, do a little investigating, and then give you the hows and wheres of it all.
This really shouldn’t work. Every writer has had it drilled into them a million times: Show, don’t tell. Yet, tell is exactly what these stories do. We get a long exposition dump told by the client at the start, a very brief period of some running around, and then Holmes sits us down and explains at length how it was all done while he smokes his pipe.
It shouldn’t work, but it does. These stories are all compelling and though Watson does come off a bit two-dimensional at times, he is the one we are supposed to identify with. Some of the explanations are a bit hard to swallow, but the deductive process is what’s really fascinating.
By Jove, it’s incredible!
This really shouldn’t work. Every writer has had it drilled into them a million times: Show, don’t tell. Yet, tell is exactly what these stories do. We get a long exposition dump told by the client at the start, a very brief period of some running around, and then Holmes sits us down and explains at length how it was all done while he smokes his pipe.
It shouldn’t work, but it does. These stories are all compelling and though Watson does come off a bit two-dimensional at times, he is the one we are supposed to identify with. Some of the explanations are a bit hard to swallow, but the deductive process is what’s really fascinating.
By Jove, it’s incredible!
November 4, 2021
one of my fav sherlock holmes books!
April 7, 2021
We read this book as part of our podcast. A great short story, and the introduction to the character of Irene Adler. As this story is retold a number of times through pop culture, it was not surprising that the original text had no love interest between Sherlock and Irene, compared to some adaptations which blows it out of proportion...
Definitely give it a read if you’re a fan of Sherlock and want to get a better understanding of how Irene and Sherlock are likeminded individuals and just as clever as the other.
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Definitely give it a read if you’re a fan of Sherlock and want to get a better understanding of how Irene and Sherlock are likeminded individuals and just as clever as the other.
If you want to hear more from us, check out our book review podcast on your podcast platform! We are on most of the platforms, all of which can be found on our website.
Apple podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast...
Podcast addict
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Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/show/3AQMJYo...
Or check out our website for all the links to listen:
https://teachingmycattoread.wordpress...
March 20, 2020
Six short stories from the first half of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and had all the brilliance of deduction, mystery and intrigue you come to expect from Holmes & Watson. I really enjoyed reading these as I always do with Arthur Canon Doyle’s work. The five cases were compelling, entertaining and I’ll always marvel at the clever story writing and conclusions that Holmes draws to his cases. These are such good reads!
April 12, 2022
Can't help rating it five stars. :)) Loved the short stories.
Also, this user is an official simp for "The Woman" ;)
Also, this user is an official simp for "The Woman" ;)
March 23, 2012
I first became acquainted with Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson when I was 12. I was also reading Agatha
Christie at the same time but soon worked out that it was usually the most unlikely person who was the villain and I haven’t re-read them lately. However, Endless Night remains one of my favourites as it’s so creepy and strange.
This book was part of a Radio Times tie-in with the recent Sherlock series on TV. Collect 3 tokens or send $2.99 and 3 books were yours. I’ve never owned a volume of Sherlock Holmes stories and wondered if they would still be as readable as they were when I was a child.
I needn’t have worried. As an older reader I appreciated Conan Doyle’s succinct prose, the pared down plots and the relationship between Holmes and Watson even more. We’re all so used to seeing new versions of Holmes on TV and film that it’s sometimes easy to forget that their basis was a series of ingenious tales with a complicated risk-taker at their heart. I often felt that Watson has occasionally been portrayed as a buffoon, a mere stooge to Holmes’ brilliance and yet in the original stories he isn’t. He listens and assists Holmes, grasps his methods and together they make a formidable team. Holmes has often been seen as the blueprint for the modern detective; maverick, moody loner, eccentric habits or is it just that we like the genuinely talented to be a little strange?
There are 6 tales in this slim volume and it was a real pleasure to rediscover them all over again especially ‘The Red Headed League’ and ‘The Man with the Twisted Lip’ A red-haired pawnbroker is employed to write out an encyclopaedia without realising what’s going on under his feet and a wife’s missing husband has a startling other life which she knows nothing about until he disappears…..And of course we’re introduced to Irene Adler, an adventuress who Holmes admiringly calls the woman after making her acquaintance.
I have 2 other volumes in this series to enjoy; The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Final Solution. It’s been a privilege to meet them again on the printed page.
Christie at the same time but soon worked out that it was usually the most unlikely person who was the villain and I haven’t re-read them lately. However, Endless Night remains one of my favourites as it’s so creepy and strange.
This book was part of a Radio Times tie-in with the recent Sherlock series on TV. Collect 3 tokens or send $2.99 and 3 books were yours. I’ve never owned a volume of Sherlock Holmes stories and wondered if they would still be as readable as they were when I was a child.
I needn’t have worried. As an older reader I appreciated Conan Doyle’s succinct prose, the pared down plots and the relationship between Holmes and Watson even more. We’re all so used to seeing new versions of Holmes on TV and film that it’s sometimes easy to forget that their basis was a series of ingenious tales with a complicated risk-taker at their heart. I often felt that Watson has occasionally been portrayed as a buffoon, a mere stooge to Holmes’ brilliance and yet in the original stories he isn’t. He listens and assists Holmes, grasps his methods and together they make a formidable team. Holmes has often been seen as the blueprint for the modern detective; maverick, moody loner, eccentric habits or is it just that we like the genuinely talented to be a little strange?
There are 6 tales in this slim volume and it was a real pleasure to rediscover them all over again especially ‘The Red Headed League’ and ‘The Man with the Twisted Lip’ A red-haired pawnbroker is employed to write out an encyclopaedia without realising what’s going on under his feet and a wife’s missing husband has a startling other life which she knows nothing about until he disappears…..And of course we’re introduced to Irene Adler, an adventuress who Holmes admiringly calls the woman after making her acquaintance.
I have 2 other volumes in this series to enjoy; The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Final Solution. It’s been a privilege to meet them again on the printed page.
February 24, 2012
Having enjoyed the TV adaptations which were made in the 80s it's a little surprising that I never got around to reading the Sherlock Holmes stories. So when the Radio Times magazine was giving away a set of books I jumped at the chance. I found the stories in this particular book to be extremely readable. Considering they were written so long ago I expected to be tripping up over archaic words every two minutes, but that wasn't the case. I especially appreciated how the stories are about various crimes and incidents, and not just murders. Often authors stick to murders because they need a suitably compelling reason for the characters to investigate. So it is refreshing to see rather simple incidents made equally compelling by Sherlock's approach to them. For me it's easy to see why these stories have stood the test of time.
January 26, 2016
A scandal in Bohemia, is probably one of the tamer Sherlock Holmes novels. However; for a victorian novel about a scandalous woman who essentially manipulates everyone it paints Irene Adler in a really good light. Not like the modern potrayl of a bit of a devious cow. It is more about the mutual respect that each of the characters have for each other rather than anything sexualised. I really liked it and the other stories particualry the red haired society were quite wonderful too.
February 27, 2019
One of Sherlock Holmes' greatest adventures as he matches wits against the fairer sex, and unravels the mystery in an ingenious way which only someone of his mastery of human nature could accomplish. I highly recommend this book.
January 27, 2019
The story “A Scandal in Bohemia” follows another case of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. It is significantly shorter than others of its kind. Sherlock and Watson reconnect after Watson has been spending time in domestic bliss with his new wife. The two then attempt to solve a case and are outsmarted by a woman named Irene Adler. Throughout the story, Sherlock is beaming with confidence and completely sure that he has this case in the bag. He acts as though he has solved it a thousand times before. This is ironic because he is eventually unsuccessful in what he had planned. This is a case that Sherlock doesn’t get to fully solve, even though the client is eventually satisfied with their work. By the end of the story, Sherlock has gained more respect for women as a whole and profound respect for this particular woman. There is an interesting energy between the woman and Sherlock that causes Watson to suspect that Sherlock has human feelings. This story has further developed Sherlock as a character. We get to see his weaknesses and habits involving drug use. We also get to experience a slight failure for Sherlock and the possibility of human attraction. These are things we haven’t seen yet from the seemingly perfect character. The author might do this to humanize Sherlock a bit without taking away his incredible talent and intelligence. Although we are learning these new things about the character, the author preserves the snarky personality we have grown to know and love. Even with all of these developments, the story manages to feel very similar to others in the series. It preserves familiarity and is written with the same recognizable style. This short story would be ineffective without the writing style of the author. They way he portrays the events while keeping the story in both a present and past form is thought-provoking and true to the rest of the series. I fully recommend this book to anyone who appreciates classic literature and interesting mysteries. The writing style and information displayed is outstanding and unique and the character of Sherlock Holmes will astonish you.
June 23, 2021
عندما اسمع حججك تبدو لي الأمور دائماً في غاية البساطة وكأنني أستطيع القيام بها بنفسي، بالرغن من وقوفي حائراً أمام كل مرحلة من مراحل تحليلك المنطقي المتتابعة حتى تقوم أنت بشرح طريقتك. ومع ذلك فأنا أعتقد أن عينيّ بنفس قوة عينيك. أجاب وهو يلقي بنفسه على أحد الكراسي المريحة: تماماً; أنت ترى، لكنك لا تنتبه لما تراه والفرق واضح، فأنت رأيت _على سبيل المثال_ الدرجات التي تقود من القاعة إلى هذه الغرفة, -بصفة متكررة, -كم مرة تقريباً. -حسناً، عدة مئات من المرات. -وكم عددها؟ -كم عددها؟! لا أعرف! -تماماً، فأنت لم تنتبه وإن كنت رأيت، وهذا يوضح ما أقصده تماماً. أما أنا فأعرف أن هناك سبع عشرة درجة لأنني رأيت وانتبهت في الوقت نفسه. أقرأ أقل
August 8, 2021
A great collection of short stories to while away the rainy afternoons on our summer trip to the Dales. I love the enigmatic entrance of Irene Adler, ‘The Woman’, to these stories and seeing the methods of Holmes develop as well as the relationship with Holmes is absolutely magical. Next I am going to try Agatha Christie - never read any if her mysteries!
November 1, 2017
It was Gripping, compelling read, Deja sin aliento 😍😍.
July 3, 2018
6 short stories, each with a captivating crimes and fantastic unfolds of the mysteries. I love Sherlock greatest detective and My dear Watson. Light read and fun to guess the crimes.
May 20, 2019
really good.
August 19, 2019
Come on, its sherlock Holmes.
April 6, 2020
Non stop page-turning!
June 30, 2020
A solid collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, which I enjoyed digesting in a free 30 minutes.
October 20, 2020
Irene Adler kicks ass
January 20, 2023
Ani zde Sherlock Holmes nezklamal. Krásné propojení s naší zemí a smrtelností, kterou u Sherlocka vyvolává přítomnost Irene Adlerové.
February 3, 2023
Amazing, as always!
March 20, 2012
My first experience of Conan Doyle! An interesting selection of shorts stories, definitely looking forward to reading more.
July 24, 2013
Enjoyable
March 15, 2022
Not every story as good as the other, and some have aged a bit. But still the detective soothes me.
June 26, 2017
#santhiReads2017
March 4, 2018
Povídky jsou hodně strohé a jednoduché, bez jakýchkoliv přebytečných okras a popisů, přesto jim to neubírá na originalitě a promyšlenosti. Postavu Sherlocka naprosto zbožňuji a miluju tu jeho samozřejmost a chytrost, s kterou vyřeší každý nevyřešitelný případ. Vždy se těším na to, s jakou další zapeklitou situací se setkám příště.
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