Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, The, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, The, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, The

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Stephen Thorne

Unabridged: 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/27/2018

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

In The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, a banker, Mr. Alexander Holder, makes a loan of 50,000 to a socially prominent client, who leaves a beryl coronet one of the most valuable public possessions in existence as collateral. Feeling that he must not leave this rare and precious piece of jewelry in his personal safe at the bank, he takes it home with him. Awakened by a noise in the night, he is horrified to see his son playing with the coronet and apparently trying to bend it. Three beryls are now missing from it. In a panic, Mr. Holder travels to see Holmes, who agrees to take the case.

About Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle, a Scottish writer whose works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry, and nonfiction, is best known as the creator of the detective Sherlock Holmes. While Holmes was the embodiment of scientific thinking, Doyle himself did not exhibit the same rationality, believing in fairies and occultism. His Sherlock Holmes stories have been translated into more than fifty languages and have been made into plays, films, radio and television series, cartoons, and comic books. By 1920, Doyle was one of the most highly paid writers in the world. Other works by Doyle include The Lost World, the first book in the Professor Challenger series; The White Company, one of his many historical novels; and The Great Boer War.

Doyle was born at Picardy Place, near Edinburgh, in 1859. He was educated in Jesuit schools and studied at Edinburgh University. In 1884, he married Louise Hawkins. Doyle qualified as a doctor in 1885 and practiced medicine as an eye specialist in Hampshire until 1891, when he became a full-time writer. Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, was published in 1887 and introduced the detective's faithful associate, Dr. Watson.

During the Boer war in South Africa (1899-1902), Doyle served several months as the senior physician at a field hospital. There he wrote The War in South Africa, in which he expressed the imperial view. He twice ran unsuccessfully for Parliament but nevertheless was knighted in 1902. In 1907, fourteen months after his wife died, Doyle married Jean Leckie. After his son Kingsley died in the first World War, Doyle dedicated himself to spiritualistic studies at his home in Windlesham, Sussex. He died himself in 1930.


Reviews

Interesante caso sobre el robo de una corona de un valor incalculable. Una gran cantidad de circunstancias pondrán a prueba a la sagaz mente del gran Sherlock. Interesting case about the theft of an invaluable crown. Many circumstances will test the shrewd mind of the great Sherlock.......more

One of the more enjoyable Sherlock Holmes short mysteries! A desperate banker, Mr. Holder, comes to Sherlock Holmes with a problem that could ruin him: a precious coronet made of gold and beryls was entrusted to him as collateral for a loan. Not wanting to risk leaving the coronet in his banker's sa......more

Goodreads review by Aishu

The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet is one of the stories from the canon of Sherlock Holmes that is often overlooked, and yet it is a story in keeping with many other Conan Doyle stories. Indeed, there is cause for the detective to don a disguise, and even solve the case for the client with a dramati......more

Goodreads review by Isa

Otro caso más que me ha parecido súper interesante, sobre todo porque siempre pensé que el culpable del robo de la diadema iba a ser la misma persona que se la dio al banquero, pero en realidad no fue así, sino que todo fue culpa de una mujer engañada por un hombre. Creo que poco a poco le iré cogie......more

Goodreads review by Razvan

A slightly better story than the others, as it checks Holmes's theory that the truth remains after subtracting the improbable variants., even if it does look not obvious at all.......more