Sherlock Holmes The Adventure of the..., Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes The Adventure of the..., Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Marc Smythe

Unabridged: 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/24/2025


Synopsis

"The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the eleventh of the twelve stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in Strand Magazine in May 1892.A banker asks Holmes to investigate after a "Beryl Coronet" entrusted to him is damaged at his home. Awakened by noise, he had found his son, Arthur, holding the damaged coronet. Arthur refuses to speak, neither admitting guilt nor explaining himself.Footprints in the snow outside the house tell Holmes that the banker's niece had conspired with a blackguard to steal the coronet; Arthur had discovered the crime in progress and the coronet had been damaged during his struggle to prevent it. He had refused to tell his father the truth of the crime because of his love for his cousin.

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 February 15, 2021

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

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on September 19, 2017

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

Goodreads review by Aishu on December 26, 2020

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

Goodreads review by Isa on June 25, 2023

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

Goodreads review by Razvan on October 07, 2023

A slightly better story than the others, as it checks Holmes's theory that the truth remains after subtracting the improbable variants., even if it does look not obvious at all.......more