Five Orange Pips, The, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Five Orange Pips, The, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Five Orange Pips, The

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Stephen Thorne

Unabridged: 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/27/2018

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

In The Five Orange Pips, a young Sussex gentleman named John Openshaw tells the strange story of his uncle Elias Openshaw, who came back to England after living in the United States as a planter in Florida and serving as a colonel in the Confederate Army. His uncle begins receiving threatening letters inscribed KKK and including five orange pips. He is killed shortly thereafter. The job of unraveling this sordid transatlantic mystery falls to Holmes and his trusty companion Dr. Watson. The fifth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, this is also one of only two Sherlock Holmes short stories where Holmes' client dies after seeking his help.

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

- لغز وراءه احدى المنظمات السرية (العديدة في العالم)، برتبط بتاريخ الولايات المتحدة وزمن العبيد والاسترقاق. الأوراق المطلوبة كانت تثبت تاريخاً اسوداً لرجال حاليين (في حينها) وأرادوها بشدة من شخص هرب عائدا الى بريطانيا. قتلوه وقتلوا ورثته وقتلتهم يد القدر بالنهاية. - القصة ذات نهاية مفتوحة، غير اكيدة،......more

3.5 stars. "The Five Orange Pips" is a classic Sherlock Holmes story, published in 1891, and then anthologized in the The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes set (which you can read online or download free here at Project Gutenberg). A young man, John Openshaw, comes to visit Sherlock and Dr. Watson. He te......more

El caso empieza muy bien ya que el enigma es muy interesante, pero el final no me ha convencido: Inacabado. The case starts very well since the enigma is very interesting, but the end has not convinced me: unfinished.......more

Goodreads review by Ali

قراءة أخرى. قصة مشوقة وهي الخامسة بالترتيب من سلسلة المغامرات، يلجأ فيها أحد أفراد عائلة أوبنشو لشيرلوك أملًا لإيجاد حل بعد تورط عائلته مع جماعة الكو كلوكس كلان العنصرية. طريقة تحليل هولمز للقضية كانت مذهلة وتمنيتها لو كانت رواية طويلة وبتفاصيل أكثر بدلًا عن قصة قصيرة فقط، لكن مع ذلك أعجبتني الطريقة......more

Goodreads review by Aishu

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would write the short stories to fit perfectly into a single edition of the Strand Magazine. The stories were normally fast paced, but also easy to follow. The Five Orange Pips though, is perhaps constrained by its length, because the reader cannot use the evidence provided to......more