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 Gloria Scott

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Steven Jacobson

Unabridged: 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/24/2025


Synopsis

"The Adventure of the Gloria Scott", is one of 12 stories in the collection, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. This story is related mainly by Holmes rather than Watson, and is the first case to which Holmes applied his powers of deduction, having treated it as a mere hobby until this time.This is one of the two Sherlock Holmes stories in which a protagonist is haunted by an old acquaintance for an old crime. It is also one of his many stories that deal with the fate of characters who return to England after having spent time abroad in the colonies of the British empire.

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 Federico on July 28, 2024

Best SH collection yet. Another short story collection by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This memoir includes non chronological stories, some happening between #2, #3, #4, and so on. Some even taking place before #1. The second collection also a mixed bag, as always, big surprise, but with some very uniq......more

Goodreads review by Olivia-Savannah on August 01, 2020

I enjoyed this short story collection, but I refuse to rate it higher than ‘okay’ because it must be penalised for the one incredibly racist short story included in the collection. My jaw actually dropped while listening to that one, which is a phenomenon in itself as I’m not very expressive when re......more

Goodreads review by Werner on January 30, 2022

Note: Jan. 30, 2022: This is another review that was originally written piecemeal, so I've now edited it into a unified whole. This is Doyle's second collection of canonical Sherlock Holmes stories, containing a dozen tales originally published in The Strand magazine between Dec. 1892 and Nov. 1893.......more

Goodreads review by Steven on March 30, 2020

Muy buenos relatos. He finalizado muy satisfecho tras leer esta recopilación de relatos. Al iniciar, creí que se parecerían los relatos a los presentados en las Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes, pero me alegra que no haya sido así; no porque los relatos del libro predecesor no me hayan gustado, sino po......more