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'''''The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle''''' is a short story that is part of the Sherlock Holmes series by [[Aurthur Conan Doyle]]. It was first published in January, 1892.
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==Status==
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'''''The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle''''' is a [[mystery|detective]] short story that is part of the [[Sherlock Holmes (universe)|''Sherlock Holmes'' series]] by [[Aurthur Conan Doyle]] first published in January, 1892. This work is now in the public domain.
I do not own this book, but have listened to it as an audio book.
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The story is about a Countess who is robbed of a blue jewel and a reformed thief who expresses his innocence being charged with a crime that Sherlock Holmes finds elementary.
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==Personal==
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A coworker loaned me this a copy of this which they got as a free audiobook. Because Sherlock Holmes is such an seminal fictional hero, and I have loved many works of fiction based on the character, I was eager to listen to it.
  
 
==Review==
 
==Review==
I didn't find this story to be very interesting, perhaps it's just the time gap. And, while I like the idea of a crime-fighting genius like Holmes, I found a lot of his abductions to be rather far-fetched.
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I didn't find this story to be very interesting, perhaps it's just the time gap. And, while I like the idea of a crime-fighting genius like Holmes, I found a lot of his abductions to be awfully far-reaching.
  
 
==Links==
 
==Links==
* [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661 gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661] - Project Gutenberg.
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* [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Blue_Carbuncle en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Blue_Carbuncle] - WikiSource - Illustrated.
  
  
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Latest revision as of 15:52, 12 December 2023

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Author Aurthur Conan Doyle
Published 1892-01-??
Type Fiction, Short story
Genre Mystery
Themes Mystery
Age Group Adult

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle is a detective short story that is part of the Sherlock Holmes series by Aurthur Conan Doyle first published in January, 1892. This work is now in the public domain.

The story is about a Countess who is robbed of a blue jewel and a reformed thief who expresses his innocence being charged with a crime that Sherlock Holmes finds elementary.

Personal

Own?No.
Read?Audiobook read by Alan Cumming.
Finished2015.

A coworker loaned me this a copy of this which they got as a free audiobook. Because Sherlock Holmes is such an seminal fictional hero, and I have loved many works of fiction based on the character, I was eager to listen to it.

Review

Overall:

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I didn't find this story to be very interesting, perhaps it's just the time gap. And, while I like the idea of a crime-fighting genius like Holmes, I found a lot of his abductions to be awfully far-reaching.

Links

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