Sherlock Holmes. Tom 1: Studium w Szkarłacie/Znak Czterech/Pies Baskerville'ów

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Studium w Szkarłacie
Sherlock Holmes i doktor Watson, po raz pierwszy razem w akcji, rozwikłują zagadkę dwóch niezwykłych zbrodni w Londynie. Odkryte na ścianie tajemnicze napisy krwią prowadzą ich ku dalekiej przeszłości i motywowi zemsty za niegdyś popełnione zło...

Znak Czterech
Leniwe życie przy Baker Street przerywa przybycie pięknej młodej kobiety, która prosi o wyjaśnienie tajemniczego zaginięcia jej ojca. Błahe z pozoru zlecenie staje się śmiertelnie niebezpieczne wraz z pojawieniem się tytułowego "znaku czterech" oraz znalezieniem w zamkniętym od wewnątrz pokoju ciała zbitego w dość makabryczny sposób mężczyzny...

Pies Baskerville'ów
Sherlock Holmes i doktor Watson na tropie tajemniczych zabójstw w rodzie Baskerville'ów. Według legendy na członkach tej rodziny ciąży klątwa, która ma być karą za zbrodnie i gwałty, jakich dopuścił się jeden z Baskerville'ów, sir Hugon. Rodzinę prześladuje ponoć straszliwy czarny pies, bestia, która zionie ogniem z pyska i zabija kolejnych przedstawicieli rodu...

Genres: Classics, Mystery, Fiction

491 pages, Hardcover

First published September 4, 2014

About the author

Sir 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.

Reviews

[౨ৎ˚₊✩ paula ౨ৎ˚₊✩ · Rating 5 out of 5]

4,5⭐️ Absolutnie ubóstwiam postać Sherlocka Holmesa, więc po obejrzeniu serialu zabrałam się za oryginał jego przygód. Uwielbiam sposób w jaki wszystkie części układanki łączą się na koniec każdego opowiadania i za każdym razem jestem pod wrażeniem geniuszu detektywa. „Pies Baskerville’ów” podobał mi się najbardziej, ale każda historia ma swój niesamowity urok.✨

[ania]

update!! jednak dokończyłam ale i tak idę oglądać bbc sherlocka

[Wilcza Dama · Rating 5 out of 5]

Po czterech latach od zakochania do w "Sherlocku" od BBC, w końcu zabrałam się za poznanie nieśmiertelnego pierwowzoru... i przepadłam kompletnie. 🖤
Okazało się, że serial i książki mają ze sobą właściwie niewiele wspólnego, dlatego ponownie z zapartym tchem śledziłam losy Holmesa oraz Watsona, które trafiły do mnie z całą swą mocą.
Sir Artur Conan Doyle to geniusz.
Pan Jerzy Łoziński, zajmujący się tłumaczeniem opowieści dwójki z Baker Street, również zasługuje na wyrazy najwyższego uznania, bo spisał się naprawdę fenomenalnie.
Cóż mam powiedzieć więcej? Zakochałam się, znowu, tak po prostu. 🖤

[Johann · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a fun collection of stories! My favorite, no doubt, being A Study in Scarlet, for its subject matter. Though, The Hound of the Baskervilles was quite a thrill to read.

[Pixie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I needed a copy of Hound of the Baskervilles for a Victober ("Victorian October") reading prompt, so that is the story I read from this volume, my first Conan Doyle/Sherlock story. Is it good? A qualified yes. Is it "all that"? No. Is it even spooky? Not really.
The obsession with physiognomy kept reminding me of how eugenics led to nazi-ism. You might be annoyed by the prejudices, Watson's strange man-crush on superhuman Holmes, and also some lapses in logic (note the swings in attitude towards the escaped convict, for instance). I won't spoiler anything. It's easy to identify the culprit and figure out the relation to the crime, but if you want no spoilers do not read the intro to this particular edition.

[Katarzyna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Spodziewałam się perspektywy Sherlocka ale i tak było bardzo fajnie. Wciągnęła mnie od pierwszej strony. Co prawda trochę mało skompilowane rozwiązanie i sama zagadka . Spodziewałam się czegoś bardziej WOW

[Jesús · Rating 5 out of 5]

El perro de los Baskerville, sin duda la mejor obra de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Aunque todos sus libros son inteligentes, este en particular es deslumbrante, ya sea por los personajes, la trama y el protagonismo sin igual de Watson.

[Lena · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5

[Aga (książkodramat) · Rating 5 out of 5]

4,5

[Martyna Kurdas · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5

[amson · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5

[Ola · Rating 3 out of 5]

Studium w szkarłacie 18.09.2019
Znak czterech 6.01.2020
Pies Baskerville'ów 29.12.2022

[Kamil Zogala · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Julian M · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bardzo fajna książka

[Lucy Newns · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really wanted to like this and was disappointed. The Hound of the Baskervilles hardly had Sherlock in, and then almost had too much of him at the end!

[Alex · Rating 3 out of 5]

so I did in fact log all of these separate…. So if you gaf go check them out there lol but overall pretty decent! Less reasons than expected for his time! (Spoiler: hounds of bakersville was my fav!)

[ula · Rating 3 out of 5]

nie wiem na ile😭😭

edit: ok decyduje się na 3 bo to takie optymalne

[Manguins · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quotes

In fact Holmes is extraordinarily romantic. On one level he is a successful consulting detective who operates according to strict Victorian scientific principles; on another he is a fragile personality whose unpredictable behaviour reflects something of the fin de siecle anxiety that was beginning to emerge in British culture. (xiv, Introduction)

Read it up - you really should. There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before. (30, A Study in Scarlet)

'What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence,' returned my campanion, bitterly. 'The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done.' (122, A Study in Scarlet)


Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case...his eyes rested thoughtfully upon [his] sinewy farearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. (133, The Sign of Four)

'Which is it to-day,' I [Dr Watson] asked, 'morphine or cocaine?''...
'It is cocaine,' he [Sherlock Holmes] said, 'a seven-per-cent solution. Woul you care to try it?' (133, The Sign of Four)

What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth. (140, The Sign of Four)

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? (171, The Sign of Four)

'The division seems rather unfair,' I remarked. 'You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?'
'For me,' said Sherlock Holmes, 'there still remains the cocaine-bottle.' (244, The Sign of Four)


The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. (272, The Hound of The Baskervilles)

Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him. (376, The Hound of The Baskervilles)

I have not heard him [Sherlock Holmes] laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody. (379, The Hound of The Baskervilles)

[Henrik Haapala · Rating 5 out of 5]

“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.” Page 17

What do you put in the your minds attic?

[Maria Becker · Rating 3 out of 5]

I finished A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, but gave up a few pages into the The Hound of the Baskervilles.

These books are fine, but not amazing. I appreciate their place in literary history, but I don't think they've aged particularly well. Their depictions of women and people of color were problematic enough to ruin the stories a bit for me. Also I found the pacing strange. In the first two stories I read, the mystery was solved at about the half way point and then explanation and background took up the second half of the story. I think I might like the Sherlock short stories more than the longer novel-length ones, which hopefully wouldn't have the problems with pacing.

[heidi is reading]

I mistakenly checked this out from the library thinking it was the complete collections of novels, but it's just three and I already read two of them. As for "The Sign of Four,' it's alright, but I felt it somewhat decreased in quality about a third of the way through, I would give it 2.5 or 3 stars. Also I did miss the Watson recap :( I still maintain my favorite is "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and feel validated in this because the introduction describes it as the perfect combination of mystery and horror.

[Martinask · Rating 4 out of 5]

Czy tu trzeba dużo pisać? Sherlocka chyba wszyscy znają. Miło było poznać początki przyjaźni słynnego detektywa i Watsona. Holmes posługiwał się dedukcją i obserwacją w rozwiązywaniu zadań jakie do niego trafiały. I był cholernie dobry w tym co robił. Ja czytałam oryginał, podczas gdy moja córka zapoznawała się z Sherlockiem w wersji skróconej „klasyki dla dzieci”. Na pewno sięgnę po następne przygody Sherlocka Holmes’a. Polecam

[Daria · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Studium w Szkarłacie" 3/5⭐
Nie będę skupiać się na Sherlocku, bo o nim to wszyscy wiemy, że jest genialny. Klasyk. Mimo to mam mieszane uczucia, bo bardziej od części kryminalnej podobała mi się ta retrospekcja 😂 Ale no zobaczymy, co będzie dalej 🙈

[Jacob Bush · Rating 3 out of 5]

An unexpected friendship, developed in trials and tribulations, liberally peppered with humor and wit. The exploits of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are fun, pulpy adventures which do not succumb to the same absurdities of many other stories in the genre.

[Jaclyn Stevens · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very readable classic Sherlock- love the funny relationship between Holmes & Watson! You need to keep in mind the time period with regard to description of certain characters from throughout the British empire.

[Julie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Sherlock Holmes. All three novels were amazing.

[Corinne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kinda racist

[Lisa Petre · Rating 3 out of 5]

I appreciate their place in literary history, but I don't think they've aged particularly well. There is a lot of racism and misogyny. But I see why they are classics.

[Armen · Rating 4 out of 5]

3,5/5

Pod urlop czy inny wolny czas jak znalazł. Mocną stroną są wyraziści bohaterowie każdej z opowieści. Klimatyczna lektura, być może przeczytam pozostałe tomy.