Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Stephen Thorne

Unabridged: 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/27/2018

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

In The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, Miss Hatty Doran, after several strange episodes on the day of her marriage to Lord St. Simon, disappears from the reception. St. Simon tells Holmes that he noticed a change in the young lady's mood just after the wedding ceremony, having been uncharacteristically sharp with him. Also unusual: she dropped her wedding bouquet and a gentleman in the front pew handed it back to her. For Holmes, it proves rather an elementary case, though it causes considerable confusion for Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade. This is the tenth 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

ربما ستكون أنت فظًّا أيضًا لو وجدت نفسك في لحظة، بعد كل ما تكبَّدتَه من عناء في التودُّد والخطبة والزفاف، محرومًا من الزوجة والثروة. هولمز يتباهى و يتألق كعادته..و هذه المرة مع عروس هاربة و مع لورد سانت سايمون صاحب الألقاب البريطانية والملاحظة القوية و البرود الانجليزى العتيد الذي اهتز من اختفاء عر......more

Otro caso de Sherlock Holmes sobre una boda y un matrimonio que tiene ciertas dificultades. Nada del otro mundo. Another case of Sherlock Holmes about a wedding and a marriage that has certain difficulties. Nothing of excellence.......more

In this Sherlock Holmes tale, Lord St. Simon's American wife disappeared during the wedding breakfast, right after they were married. It was a marriage of convenience: as usual for the time, the American wife gets a noble title and the English aristocrat gets a much-needed infusion of cash from her......more

Goodreads review by Olga

This engaging and entertaining story reflects the curious paradox about Holme's personality - he has become a connoisseur of female psychology having investigated multiple disappearances of brides. However, he has never contemplated of having one himself:)......more

Goodreads review by Isa

Bueno, va otro caso más en el que por supuesto no pude adivinar nada, pero que me pareció bastante divertido por la historia del primer matrimonio oculto de una de las involucradas y también por la actitud final del pobre noble. Por otra parte, amo cada que aparece Lestrade y Sherlock se burla de lo......more