The Return of Sherlock Holmes The Ad..., Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Return of Sherlock Holmes The Ad..., Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Dancing Men

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: T. Sanders, Kaz Wilbur

Unabridged: 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: One Media iP

Published: 12/27/2017


Synopsis

"The Adventure of the Dancing Men" is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes is sent a series of strange letters by a client to decipher; on them are strange sequences of little dancing stick figures.A One Media iP production.

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

Novela corta que se basa en el misterio de un código en forma de figuras humanas que nuestro amigo detective tendrá que descifrar. Short novel that is based on the mystery of a code in the form of human figures that our detective friend will have to decipher.......more

Goodreads review by Aishu

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would rank The Adventure of the Dancing Men as one of his favourite short Sherlock Holmes stories. On the face of it, the drawings of dancing men may seem to be a childish prank, and that is what Watson assumes they are, but the fact that the figures are frightening a grown wom......more

Goodreads review by Mary

I'll never forget how this mystery taught me at a young age that the most common letter in the English alphabet is "e," which enables Holmes to crack the code. I also love the strength and sensitivity of the woman, Doyle's refreshingly non-stereotypical portraits of Americans, and even the criminal......more

Goodreads review by Jack

5 Stars. One of the best by Doyle. Well written too. Famous to this day. It's the one in which Sherlock Holmes deciphers coded messages which have a client both annoyed and concerned. A member of the landed gentry, Hilton Cubitt of Riding Thorpe Manor in Norfolk has come to see Holmes and Watson abo......more

Goodreads review by James

A rather good story by Arthur Conan Doyle. Here we see Holmes and Watson trundle off to Norwich regarding a case of a distraught wife and some odd symbols of ‘dancing men’. What is surprising and different about this story is that Holmes’ ego has been reigned in. When the local inspector asked Holme......more