The Adventure of the Speckled Band

Hierbei handelt es sich um eine Kurzgeschichte mit gut 30 Seiten. Kurzgeschichten haben es immer etwas schwerer bei mir, aber diese hat mir sehr gut gefallen! Sherlock Holmes macht einfach Spaß. Seine Kombinationsgabe ist großartig, auch wenn diese Geschichte schon auch ein bisschen schräg ist. :)......more

This is it. The Sherlock Holmes story I was waiting for. It’s a classic! Update: To end my 2019 reading challenge I’m reading (and in some cases rereading) the dozen stories Arthur Conan Doyle marked as his favorites. “The Speckled Band” is #1, on both his list and (so far at least) on mine. Read it......more

Relectura de esta gran aventura. En este caso, Holmes ve más allá que cualquiera y, a pesar de una primera interpretación errónea, la lógica acaba por imponerse. Recordaba este caso con la traducción al castellano del título: "La banda moteada". Rereading of this great adventure. In this case, Holmes se......more

"Oh, my God! Helen! It was the band! The speckled band!" The Adventure of the Speckled Band is one of the most ingenious of the 56 short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. The author himself considered this one to be his best Sherlock Holmes story......more

i read this in an english class, due to suffering from the affliction of a professor with a sherlock holmes obsession, and this just does not hold up to the level of scrutiny that pulitzer prize winners were carrying off, easy peasy. this is a great mystery, yes, but you try analyzing it for symbols......more