Le avventure di Sherlock Holmes. La banda maculata. Testo inglese a fronte

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. :) Leggi tutto

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 Leggi tutto

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 Leggi tutto

"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 Leggi tutto

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 Leggi tutto

The Adventure of the Speckled Band is one of the darker Sherlock Holmes stories dealing with murder by unusual means. The story is written as if it was one of the earliest cases undertaken by Holmes and Watson as a duo, with the case being brought to the consulting detective by a scared young lady,

This was supposedly one of Doyle's favorite Holmes stories, if not his actual most favorite. It's quite eerie, and Holmes puts on a fine show of his powers of deductive reasoning. However the title refers to what turns out to be an annoyingly huge red herring. I guess I should expect that by now, bu Leggi tutto

I threw this in my purse to read over lunch today. One of the best of the Sherlock Holmes stories that I have read thus far. An eerie locked room mystery and when all is revealed quite diabolical! It did make me wonder if the instrument/vehicle that was utilized to commit murder could really be done Leggi tutto

Creo que es el primer caso en el que más o menos puedo descifrar cuál será la respuesta a todo antes de que la revele Sherlock. La verdad es que las menciones a las mascotas exóticas que tenía este doctor y las muertes extrañas que sucedieron por ahí me ayudaron a conectar un poco las cosas. Ahora, Leggi tutto