

Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, The
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator: Stephen Thorne
Unabridged: 56 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 03/27/2018
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator: Stephen Thorne
Unabridged: 56 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 03/27/2018
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.
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
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
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