Boscombe Valley Mystery, The, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Boscombe Valley Mystery, The, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Boscombe Valley Mystery, The

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Stephen Thorne

Unabridged: 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/27/2018

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

In The Boscombe Valley Mystery, Inspector Lestrade summons Holmes to a community in Herefordshire, where a local landowner has been murdered outdoors. The deceased's estranged son is strongly implicated. Holmes, employing his trusty magnifying glass quickly determines that a mysterious third man may be responsible for the crime, unraveling a thread involving a secret criminal past, thwarted love, and blackmail. This is the fourth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and was first published in the Strand Magazine in 1891.

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 Francesc on January 06, 2021

Relato interesante sobre un caso de asesinato que es más complejo de lo que parece. An interesting story of a murder case that is more complex than it seems.......more

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on March 23, 2017

Sherlock Holmes and his faithful sidekick Dr. Watson leave London to go to the rural Boscombe Valley in Herefordshire. Charles McCarthy has been murdered in the woods by a pool, and his adult son James--who had been arguing violently with his father minutes before--was covered with his father's blo......more

Goodreads review by Piyush on April 19, 2022

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different. 3/5......more

Goodreads review by Jim on March 18, 2023

6.7/10 A landowner has been murdered and it looks like his own son commited the crime. But looks can be deceiving... For most people and Sherlock Holmes is definitely not most people. Yet another interesting case that needs the great detectives investigating skills.......more

Goodreads review by Isa on June 25, 2023

Este relato tampoco me pareció nada impresionante, pero lo que sí me gustó fue que por primera vez salieron de Londres para investigar un caso. Y si bien el caso en sí mismo me dio un poco igual, sí me enganchó la pequeña historia de amor que puede formarse después de todo con los hijos de los dos e......more