Adventure of the Copper Beeches, The, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Adventure of the Copper Beeches, The, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Adventure of the Copper Beeches, The

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Stephen Thorne

Unabridged: 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/27/2018

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

In The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, Violet Hunter asks Holmes, whether she should accept a job with very strange conditions. She has been offered 120 per year as a governess, but only if she will cut her long hair short. This is only one of many peculiar conditions to which she must agree. The employer, Jephro Rucastle, seems pleasant enough, yet Miss Hunter obviously has her suspicions. After a fortnight, Miss Hunter beseeches Holmes to come and see her in Winchester, as the situation has become even stranger. This is the last of the twelve stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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

Goodreads review by Aishu

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches contains no great mystery for Sherlock Holmes, or the reader, and as a result, the story is simply one where the narrative is allowed to run its course. The lack of mystery though, doesn’t make the story a bad read.......more

This Sherlock Holmes short story wraps up the The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes collection, and does so creditably. Sherlock receives a letter from one Violet Hunter, asking for his help. Miss Hunter is a young, out-of-work governess who's now destitute and anxious to find a new position. She receiv......more

Emocionante relato en el que Holmes y Watson tienen que resolver un misterio que pondrá sus vidas en peligro. A thrilling story in which Holmes and Watson have to solve a mystery that will put their lives in danger.......more

Another story like The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, where Holmes doesn't have much to do with his brain, but rather listens to the narrative of people and puts two and two together. Which is why even the reader can soon figure it all out with a little imagination. Still a gripping story wi......more