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The Adventure of the Empty House: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
The Adventure of the Empty House: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
The Adventure of the Empty House: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Audiobook51 minutes

The Adventure of the Empty House: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

Written by Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by Edward Raleigh

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Dr. Watson faints for the first and last time of his life when the believed-to-be-dead Holmes appears in the middle of an investigation of a crime. We find out about what really happened in the fight to the death with the evil Moriarty.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJan 1, 2009
ISBN9781601362544
The Adventure of the Empty House: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. Before starting his writing career, Doyle attended medical school, where he met the professor who would later inspire his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes. A Study in Scarlet was Doyle's first novel; he would go on to write more than sixty stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. He died in England in 1930.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    In the three years since Sherlock Holmes’s death, Dr. Watson has attempted to use his friend’s methods to solve crimes, but without Sherlock’s success. When Watson goes to Park Lane to look into a man’s mysterious death, he bumps into an old man carrying books. Watson is overcome when the man later reveals himself to be his old friend, Sherlock Holmes. After explaining to Watson how he had survived at Reichenbach Falls, Holmes enlists Watson’s aid in setting a trap for a would-be assassin.The crime at the beginning of this story is secondary to Holmes’s return, which is the real purpose of the story. It’s hard to imagine the impact on Holmes’s fans upon this story’s publication. Today’s readers know that Sherlock Holmes returned after his confrontation with Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. Contemporary readers only hoped for Holmes’s return.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Gotta give this one to the novel, even though Granada showed more emotion
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is the return story, where Sherlock Holmes comes back to life from his supposed plunge into the abyss of Reichenbach Falls at the hands of Moriarty after three years and causes Watson to faint for the only time in his life. The details of Holmes's return are of course the major point of interest here; the actual plot of the capture of Moriarty's lieutenant Colonel Sebastian Moran is fairly pedestrian by comparison and it seems implausible such a cunning man would be fooled by the wax dummy against the lighted window routine. It does set things up well for the resumption of Holmes and Watson's adventures together, along with the rather shockingly casual mention and immediate dismissal of the death of Watson's young wife Mary Morstan.