مغامرة الغنيمة الثانية

by Robert Barr

15 pages

Published January 1, 2021

About the author

Robert Barr (September 16, 1849 – October 21, 1912) was a British-Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland.

Robert Barr emigrated with his parents to Upper Canada at age four and was educated in Toronto at Toronto Normal School. Barr became a teacher and eventual headmaster of the Central School of Windsor, Ontario. While he had that job he began to contribute short stories—often based on personal experiences—to the Detroit Free Press. In 1876 Barr quit his teaching position to become a staff member of that publication, in which his contributions were published with the pseudonym "Luke Sharp." This nom de plume was derived from the time he attended school in Toronto. At that time he would pass on his daily commute a shop sign marked, "Luke Sharpe, Undertaker", a combination of words Barr considered amusing in their incongruity. Barr was promoted by the Detroit Free Press, eventually becoming its news editor.

In 1881 Barr decided to "vamoose the ranch", as he stated, and relocated to London, to establish there the weekly English edition of the Detroit Free Press. In 1892 he founded the magazine The Idler, choosing Jerome K. Jerome as his collaborator (wanting, as Jerome said, "a popular name"). He retired from its co-editorship in 1895. In London of the 1890s Barr became a more prolific author—publishing a book a year—and was familiar with many of the best-selling authors of his day, including Bret Harte and Stephen Crane. Most of his literary output was of the crime genre, then quite in vogue. When Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories were becoming well-known Barr published in the Idler the first Holmes parody, "The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs" (1892), a spoof that was continued a decade later in another Barr story, "The Adventure of the Second Swag" (1904). Despite the jibe at the growing Holmes phenomenon Barr and Doyle remained on very good terms. Doyle describes him in his memoirs Memories and Adventures as, "a volcanic Anglo—or rather Scot-American, with a violent manner, a wealth of strong adjectives, and one of the kindest natures underneath it all."

Robert Barr died from heart disease on October 21, 1912, at his home in Woldingham, a small village to the southeast of London.

Reviews

[Alsayed.28 · Rating 2 out of 5]

الكتاب رقم ( ٥٠ )
عام ٢٠٢٥
الكتاب : مغامرة الغنيمة الثانية
المؤلف : روبرت بار
التصنيف : قصة قصيرة
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📕قصة قصيرة تدور أحداثها بين الكاتب آرثر كونان دويل و بطل رواياته، المحقق شيرلوك هولمز .

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ما الذي يعتزم شيرلوك فعله، وماذا سيجني من ذلك على نفسه🕵️ ؟
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✋صراع على المال ينتهي بموت أحدهم. من هو القاتل، ومن هو الضحية، ومن هو شريك الجريمة
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🚫 توقفت طويلًا عند تلك الكلمات :
_ أنت تعرف أن العرافين في الماضي لم يخدع بعضهم بعضًا .
_ إنّ الكلام المعسول لا يغيير الواقع السيء.
_ الناشرون هم رجال رحيمون نادرًا ما يرتكبون جرائم، بينما المؤلفون هم مجموعة من العتاة اللذين يرتكبون جناية في كل مرة يصدرون فيها كتابًا .

✋ قد يتبادر إلى ذهنك سؤال بعد قراءة الكتاب:
هل تتحول الشخصيات التي يبتكرها الكاتب إلى جزء من حياته ؟

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📕قصة قصيرة خفيفة وساخرة حول "جريمة قتل" !!

[Antar Jabareen · Rating 2 out of 5]

قصة قصيرة تجمع بين الكاتب ارثر كونان دويل وشخصيته التي ابتكرها هولمز. فيظهر صراع على الغنيمة وهو المال والذهب الذي جاء به الناشر للكاتب وهو في بيته ليعطيه له فياتي هولمز كلص ليظفر بالغنيمة ويجري حديث بينهما يظهر مهارات كل واحد منهما وللوهلة الاولى نرى الغلبة في الاستنتاجات لهولمز والكاتب يخفق مرة تلو الاخرى ولكن في النهاية نرى الكاتب انه اخذ اجابات لاستنتاجات تعمد ان تكون خاطئة تساعده هذه الاجابات في مخططه بقتل هولمز وهذا ما حدث فقد خدعه وقتله. وقام هو والناشر بدفنه في لندن في احد الشوارع الرئيسية واما اعين الشرطة التي لم تلاحظ ذلك.

[Tom · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 Stars rounded up to 4 Stars.

[William · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaingin mystery listening

I listened to this as part of the Victorian Rogues Megapack. It was very entertaining with interesting characters and story licne.

I would recommend this novella to readers of mysteies. 2023