The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez

Name: The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN: 9781666571196

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Series: Sherlock Holmes #34

Narrator: Stephen Thorne

Unabridged: 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 06/18/2019

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Classic, Mystery & Detective, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

A young man working as the assistant to a professor has been murdered. While it appears that anyone could have entered the house and committed the murder, a clue in the form of a pair of gold glasses is found near the body. Working on the assumption that the killer wore the glasses as well as several other clues, Holmes comes to the chilling realization that the murderer is still in the house.

About Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a British writer best known for his creation of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. In addition to being considered a father of detective fiction, he also wrote a series of science-fiction adventures starring the brilliant, daring, and comical Professor Challenger.

About Stephen Thorne

Stephen Thorne is a British actor and voice artist. He trained at RADA and has worked extensively in film, television, stage, and radio. His credits include roles on Doctor Who and voicing Aslan in the animated version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Treebeard in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. Renowned as a narrator, he has recorded over three-hundred audiobooks and has won a Talkies Award and several Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Aishu on January 27, 2019

"The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in 1904 with illustrations by Sidney Paget. It is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock......more

Goodreads review by Isa on October 22, 2023

Ese es uno de esos casos que escalan muy rápido y de repente está involucrada Rusia, la mafia, hermandades y mil cosas más. El final fue bastante y no me esperaba que terminara de esa manera, pero siempre es un placer ver todas las técnicas extrañas que usa Sherlock para confirmar sus sospechas.......more

Goodreads review by Željko on June 04, 2017

Holmes solves a case by smoking a lot.......more

Goodreads review by Jack on August 31, 2023

4 Stars. What a performance by Sherlock Holmes. On several occasions in the 56 short stories, and regrettably only 4 novels, Conan Doyle has his genius detective analyze a piece of evidence only tangentially connected to the case at hand. Often up front while he and Watson, and readers like you and......more