The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
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- First published
- 1927
- Pages
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Preface
4:17 -
The Adventure of the Illustrious Client
58:49 -
The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier
45:09 -
The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
35:26 -
The Adventure of the Three Gables
37:13 -
The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
36:46 -
The Adventure of the Three Garridebs
38:16 -
The Problem of Thor Bridge
59:24 -
The Adventure of the Creeping Man
48:24 -
The Adventure of the Lion's Mane
43:36 -
The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
26:35 -
The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place
38:09 -
The Adventure of the Retired Colourman
34:57
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About this book
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes appeared in 1927, three years before Doyle's death, and it gathered the last twelve Holmes stories he would ever write. By this point Doyle had been writing Holmes off and on for forty years, and the late-career strain shows. The stories are uneven. Doyle himself wrote a preface admitting he was hoping readers would forgive any decline in quality, which is not the most confident way to launch a final collection.
That said, some of the late stories are genuinely strange and interesting. The Adventure of the Lion's Mane has Holmes narrating in his own voice, which never happens elsewhere in the canon, investigating a beach death. The Sussex Vampire is a domestic puzzle with a pleasingly mundane explanation. The Three Garridebs is famous mostly for Watson getting shot and Holmes's brief panicked response, which is the closest the books ever come to overt emotion between them. The Mazarin Stone is structurally odd because Doyle adapted it from his own one-act play. If you have read the rest of the canon, this is the closing chapter, warts and all.
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Book facts
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- First published
- 1927
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- Pages
- 236
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Detective Books
- Series
- Sherlock Holmes
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Thomas A. Copeland