Empecé este libro en 2017 y un embarazo y una mudanza me hicieron dejar este y otros libros aparcados. He querido retomarlo aunque, en esta ocasión, decidí comenzarlo de nuevo y que genialidad. Jamás había disfrutado tanto un libro de relatos.

En primer llegar, me ha encantado reencontrarme con Sherlock y su querido Watson, narrador y ayudante de todas las historias que aquí se recogen. En segundo lugar , porque no recordaba lo bien escritas que están, que manera de atrapar al lector con casos extraños y disparatados que acaban con una resolución impecable.

En las historias encontraremos un poco de todo, robos, desapariciones o crímenes. Volveremos a encontrarnos con el torpe de Lestrade de Scotland Yard y, al fin, conoceremos a Irene Adler, la gran Irene Adler.

He disfrutado todos y cada uno de los cuentos y ahora tengo muchas ganas de seguir con el siguiente libro. Aunque también tengo mis favoritos: Un escándalo en Bohemia (en el que aparece Irene), La liga de los pelirrojos (un caso muy divertido), El hombre del labio retorcido (muy original y que me recordó mucho a un capítulo de la famosa serie de la BBC) y La aventura del carbunclo azul (de los mejores, muy original). Como siempre os dejo mi interpretación de todos ellos en emojis:

1. Las aventuras de un escándalo en Bohemia

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the third book in the Sherlock Holmes series. Instead of novels, Adventures is a short story compilation that collects twelve of Holmes' most well-known cases that range from early to late in the famous detective's career. From the first story, A Scandal in Bohemia, where Holmes takes on Irene Adler, Arthur Conan Doyle seems to want to provide a better perspective of the investigator, a more wholistic view of Holmes and his relationship with Watson, both before he got married and after. The Bohemia case is amazingly feminist for the fact it was written with Victorian ideals prevalent. In the Blue Carbuncle, the reader is treated to another iconic case where the Holmes considers a justice that is more social-conscious and less punitive. Truth be told, I enjoyed every single story, unique for its time, building a mystery genre that begins with a singular mind, colorful cases, and superior story-telling. At root, this is an excellent collection of tales that amplify the Sherlock Holmes mythos by demonstrating not only the extraordinary logic of Holmes' reasoning but also the tremendous joy he would experience via the process and the depressing valleys he would travel when not engaged in an investigation.

La tercera entrega de Arthur Conan Doyle sobre el más famoso y peculiar de los detectives consiste en una recopilación de doce cuentos cortos o, bien podríamos decir, doce misterios. Algunos más trágicos, otros más cómicos, un par puede que incluso predecibles pero, sin lugar a dudas, todos atrapantes y endiabladamente disfrutables.

Watson vuelve a ser el narrador de las osadas e ingeniosas aventuras de su excepcional amigo mientras Sherlock Holmes hace una vez más -o mejor dicho doce veces más- gala de una audacia analítica sin precedentes que convierte simples detalles en grandes revelaciones mediante mecanismos deductivos que parecen naturales para él, elementales incluso, pero irrevocablemente inauditos para aquellos a su alrededor.

Si tuviera que elegir mis tres favoritos, estos serían el misterio de Cooper Beeches, la banda de lunares y el pulgar del ingeniero. Gocé tremendamente sumergiéndome en cada uno de ellos y puede que el libro en sí mismo se haya posicionado por encima de estudio en escarlata y el signo de los cuatro al menos en mi ranking personal.

4.5

Oh my. So, I’ve never read any Sherlock Holmes novels before, but the Robert Downey Jr. movies are my absolute favorite. I came into this book anticipating 1800th century English writing, which I got, but I had zero expectations as to humor, having assumed that the movies were just clever adaptations of antiquated books. So color me DELIGHTED when these stories had many laugh out loud moments, and plenty of times that I was completely tickled. This is a collection of 12 short stories, all mysteries in some way, that were published separately as part of a newspaper series if I’m not mistaken. Each story is unique, with varying degrees of humor and darkness.

I guessed the outcome to several of them, but that was secondary in my enjoyment of this book. This entire novel was told in the first person by Dr. Watson, and I absolutely loved his perspective. Holmes is sharp and witty, delights is delivering shocking statements with utter nonchalance that never fail to scandalize Dr. Holmes, and made me giggle and sometimes throw back my head and laugh! That was my favorite aspect of these stories, the juxtaposition of the two men, one buttoned up and proper, one unorthodox and untamable. I can only imagine how charming people of that time found these stories to be, but I had a great time reading them.

He ido desmenuzando y degustando cada uno de estos casos.
Los casos me parecen interesantes, pero son casos menores dentro de la vida de Sherlock Holmes. Algunos casos se cierran apresuradamente y se nota que fueron publicados en revistas, aunque he de decir que aportan datos sobre la vida del gran detective. Por ejemplo: en uno de los casos Irene Adler y Holmes se conocen y esto será importante.
Los casos no son lineales en el tiempo. Saltan entre los años ya que en algunos de ellos Watson está casado y vive con Mary y, en cambio, en otros, Watson vive en el 221b de Baker Street.
Es un libro para quien desee conocer casos más pequeños en la historia de la gran pareja.

I have trashed out and tasted each of these cases.
The cases seem interesting to me, but they are minor cases in the life of Sherlock Holmes. Some cases are hastily closed and it is noticeable that they have been published in magazines, although I must say that they provide data on the life of the great detective. For example: in one case Irene Adler and Holmes meet and this will be important.
The cases are not linear in time. They jump between the years because in some of them Watson is married and lives with Mary, while in others Watson lives at 221b Baker Street.
It is a book for those who wish to learn about smaller cases in the history of the great couple.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3), Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892; the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between July 1891 and June 1892.

The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view.

تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز سوم ماه اکتبر سال2016میلادی

عنوان: ماجراهای شرلوک هولمز کارآگاه خصوصی؛ نویسنده: آرتور کانن دویل؛ مترجم: کریم امامی؛ تهران؛ طرح نو؛ چاپ نخست سال1372خورشیدی تا سال1377؛ در چهار مجلد؛ فروست: مجموعه کتابهای سیاه؛ عنوان جلد نخست: رسوایی در کشور بوهم و پنج داستان دیگر؛ عنوان جلد دوم: برق نقره ای و پنج داستان دیگر؛ عنوان جلد سوم: سیمای زرد و پنج داستان دیگر؛ عنوان جلد چهارم: عینک دور طلایی و پنج داستان دیگر؛ چاپ سوم سال1387؛ موضوع داستانهای کارآگاهی از نویسندگان بریتانیا - سده19م

عنوان: شرلوک هولمز؛ نویسنده: آرتور کانن دویل؛ مترجم: محمد قصاع؛ تهران؛ شهر قلم؛ سال1394؛ در112ص؛

دوازده داستان کوتاه نگاشته‌ شده، با خیال سحرانگیز «سر آرتور کانن دویل»، درباره ی «شرلوک هلمز»، کارآگاه نامدار آفریده شده ی ایشان است؛ این داستان‌ها، نخستین داستان‌های کوتاه «شرلوک هلمز» بودند، که برای نخستین بار از ماه ژوئیه سال1891میلادی، تا ماه ژوئن سال 1892میلادی، در مجله ی «استراند» چاپ شدند؛ سپس به صورت کتاب، در روز چهاردهم ماه اکتبر، سال1892میلادی، در «انگلستان» به چاپ رسیدند؛

عنوان داستانها در کتاب اصلی: «رسوایی در بوهم»؛ «انجمن موسرخ‌ها»؛ «مسئله هویت»؛ «را�� دره بوسکمب»؛ «پنج هسته پرتغال»؛ «مرد لب کج»؛ «ماجراهای یاقوت کبود»؛ «ماجراهای نوار خال خال»؛ «ماجراهای انگشت قطع شده مهندس»؛ «ماجراهای مجرد نجیب‌زاده»؛ «ماجراهای نیم تاج یاقوت»؛ و «ماجراهای آلش‌های مسی»؛ این دوازده داستان، به همراه هشت داستان دیگر از «ماجراهای شرلوک هلمز» نخستین بار توسط جناب آقای «کریم امامی» برگردان و در چهار مجلد چاپ شده اند

تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 06/11/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 14/11/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

Sherlock Holmes have always been my favorite. Love how he solves mysteries using deductive reasoning.

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3.75 Stars

Favorite one in the series so far.

Widać, że seria zaczyna się robić coraz bardziej schematyczna, a szkoda, bo uwielbiam postać Sherlocka.

A bit of a disappointment, if I’m being honest, especially after the energy that came with the first two novels. The stories are quite short, which means that there isn’t enough time to set up the mystery/adventure adequately. It was often the case that I found the solutions to be hurried or cheap, sometimes being able to predict them from the very first page or so (though I am not sure how much of this is now owed to my being steeped in Sherlock rhetoric for so long).

The only story I thought was magnificent was A Scandal in Bohemia. The rest were middling, and some were poor (I am thinking of A Case of Identity, The Red-Headed League, The Speckled Band, and especially The Copper Beeches).

It’s not all doom and gloom, however. Mycroft and Moriarty are on the way.

So, I volunteer at a library, in what the librarians call the "Popular Library," which consists of the area with the DVDs, music CDs and of course, the audiobooks. The majority of the titles in the audiobook section are romance novels. It struck me as a hilarious idea, and indeed, each of the audiobooks I've stuck in the CD player they have there to listen to for a few minutes has borne that out. Romance novel dialogue is barely okay on the page- can you imagine all that "Oh, FABIO, your gorgeous quivering member is so BIG! OOH BABY, LET'S DO LIKE THEY DO ON THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL!" stuff being said out loud? It really is just as bad as you'd think.

This being my only experience with audiobooks, you can understand that I was somewhat apprehensive about listening to Sherlock Holmes on audiobook, especially with stories I'd not read before like this particular collection. I felt like the prose could certainly tend towards the melodramatic and could extremely easily sway into the land of the cheesy, and I was reluctant to see that happen.

However, nothing of the kind was the case. These dramatizations by BBC Radio were almost entirely and uniformly excellent. The radio format suits these tales admirably, and I could just see some family sitting around a radio in the 1930s on the edge of their seat with some of these. I was on the edge of my seat through these as well(in my case the seat was most likely on the subway though, which made for some shocking reminders of reality when the train swung to a stop). Also, it's a great bonus that the guy playing Sherlock (Clive Merrison) has a really sexy voice, and the Watson can really sell a "dark and stormy night" like nobody's business.

As for the stories themselves, there are several really excellent and creative ones in here where one really hasn't the slightest idea where the end is going to come from, or how Sherlock is going to defeat the villain. My personal favorites were "A Scandal in Bohemia" (this is where Irene Adler is introduced, just by the by), "The Red Headed League," (truly delightful and playful plot) "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," and "The Man with the Twisted Lip." The dialogue is fantastic, the plotting moves along quickly and believably, and Sherlock Holmes usually has just enough trouble to make you think that he is human, and each plot is totally solvable once you go back and pay attention to what you missed.

Only quibbles: Has anyone else noticed that Arthur Conan Doyle's marriage plots are kind of boring and all alike? It almost feels like someone told him that he hadn't written enough romance and he threw it in grudgingly to make somebody happy, but was a little too resentful to put any effort into it more than once, and so all the plots kind of sound the same? It's always some girl's annuity that is at issue, always some malicious and poor relative. Really annoying. He also really did seem to think that Americans were a bunch of uncivilized hicks- every American character in here fed some sort of stereotype. I suppose that's not all that surprising when you're writing suspense stories for your home populace about an exotic Other of some kind, though.

Those things don't really bother me so much though, just some observations, in the spirit of Holmes and all.

Listening to The Sign of the Four next!