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The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle

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One of my fave SH stories. Loved rereading it. Again. 🤩

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The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle

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dabbe WOW! One l'il SH story fits all of those hashtags. BRILLIANT! 🤩🤩🤩 3d

CBee Isn‘t a carbuncle another name for a boil? 😂😳🤷‍♀️ 3d

Read4life @CBee Yup! 😆 3d

CBee @Read4life hmm. Maybe my next #weirdword 😂🤓🤪 3d

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Cuilin

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle | Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

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CogsOfEncouragement Holmes seems to care foremost about the brain teaser. He finds satisfaction in unraveling the answer. In these short stories of not pursuing penalty for the perpetrators he always gives a list of logical reasons for doing so. It doesn‘t seem that he doesn‘t care at all, it seems he finds himself adequate judge and jury in these particular cases. He convinces Watson with his logic and I kinda trust Watson to do the right thing. 3d

dabbe Holmes says it best: “I am not retained by the police to supply their deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just possible that I am saving a soul.“ As the world's first consulting detective, Holmes is not required to work within the constraints of the police, which was a new organization as well. 3d

Cuilin @dabbe I loved the saving a soul line. 🫶 3d

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CogsOfEncouragement @dabbe @Cuilin Good points. Holmes is sometimes reimagined for tv as lacking in the humanity department and I feel this points to the opposite. 3d

Cuilin @CogsOfEncouragement agreed. He sees things which others do not. 3d

Librarybelle I loved that line, @dabbe . I agree, @CogsOfEncouragement …Holmes lays out his reasonings and does seem to make judgments as “judge and jury.” And very true about the personification of Holmes on TV…we don‘t necessarily his more humane thinking in some of these adaptations rather than in the stories. 3d

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Cuilin

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle

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CogsOfEncouragement Well, I sure like Watson as our narrator. He‘s necessary. I think Holmes really needs Watson in his life too. Watson is essential. 😉 We are so far removed from men dressing this way, but I had thought that possibly a man could wear an old hat for a reason, not that the hat was his only or best hat he had. Of course not the case, just a thought I had while reading. 3d

dabbe Agree 💯 with @CogsOfEncouragement. Watson is essential. As Holmes puts it, Watson is his “Boswell.“ Watson humanizes Holmes. Holmes's deductions re: the hat are a bit far-fetched today, but back then ... maybe not. My favorite deduction is when Holmes claims Henry Baker is intelligent just because his hat is big (bigger than even Holmes's head). Phrenology was a big deal back then--now reduced to a pseudoscience. 3d

Librarybelle I said to myself “you can tell this is the age of phrenology” when I read about the large hat size, @dabbe ! Completely agree with @CogsOfEncouragement that Watson is essential. He serves well as the narrator. 3d

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Cuilin

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle

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CogsOfEncouragement Goose chase! LOL I liked this one. Clever fun. The crime is definitely significant. Alas, the criminal is one who thought he had a spectacular plan but managed to blow it. 3d

Cuilin @CogsOfEncouragement I thought this one was fun too. It‘s nice when authors don‘t take themselves too seriously and can have a little fun. 3d

Read4life I enjoyed it, too. @CogsOfEncouragement it went from spectacular plan to plan blown spectacularly. 🤓 3d

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dabbe I also believe it's the only SH story that is a close-to-Christmas caper. A fun one with quite the comic relief! 3d

CogsOfEncouragement @Read4life haha Exactly! lol 3d

CrystalE02 I enjoyed reading this one. I thought it was fun!!!! 3d

Cuilin @CrystalE02 it certainly had some humorous qualities. 3d

Cuilin @Read4life not exactly a criminal mastermind. 3d

CatLass007 It was light-hearted enough but I still don‘t like the way Holmes just seems to know things that are not known to the reader. 3d

Librarybelle This one was much better than the story from last week, in my opinion. It was fun and a bit light. 3d

Cuilin @CatLass007 I understand that. I‘m one of those readers that always think they can solve the mystery themselves. So I love it when a writer provides all the clues. At least give me a chance. Lol 3d

Cuilin @Librarybelle agreed. It‘s wonderful to see the variety in the short stories. 3d

kelli7990 I enjoyed this story. 3d

Aimeesue @dabbe True! It‘s one of those seasonal stories I read year after year in December. 2d

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CrystalE02

The Moor: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes | Laurie R. King

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Love seeing a revisit to one on of a Sherlock Holmes story. I am enjoying the series very much. I rated this book a 5 out of 5 stars.

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The Art of Theft | Sherry Thomas

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I am really enjoying this series. This mystery was as good as the others and as usual the information was slowly revealed, not only to the reader but to the characters as well. There were many hopeful romance storylines but there was some disappointment there but I won‘t say too much on that or it will spoil it. But I‘m hoping where there was disappointment in this book the next one will resolve it. So, I‘ll be reading the next one and soon.

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CrystalE02

A Letter of Mary: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes | Laurie R. King

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I loved this book!!! I enjoyed the mystery element in the book. I felt like Holmes and Russell had grown more as a couple. I rated this book a 5 out of 5 stars!!!

robinb I‘ve been wanting to read this series. 😊 1w

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dabbe

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle

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Fabulous posts today, Sherlockians! Next up: “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.“ Below is a study guide with summary (spoiler alert!) Discussion on 4/13 led by @Cuilin.

Here's the link: https://bit.ly/3JaHroI

Have a lovely week! 💚💙💚

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CogsOfEncouragement Thanks for continuing to host this! I enjoy hearing what other people think about these stories. 1w

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tpixie Profound quote- blood diamonds 🩸 💎 1w

dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement You're welcome! 💚🩷💚 1w

dabbe @Librarybelle You're welcome! 💚🩷💚 1w

dabbe @CatLass007 You're welcome! 💚🩷💚 1w

dabbe @tpixie 🤩😱🤩 1w

curiouserandcurioser @dabbe thank you for this❤ 1w

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Bookwomble This is one of my favourite Holmes stories, which I often re-read at Christmas 🌲🪿💎 According to my annotated edition, Doyle makes a couple of errors that might make a poulterer roll their eyes, but it doesn't spoil the story at all 😊 1w

dabbe @curiouserandcurioser You're welcome! 💚🩷💚 1w

dabbe @BeeCurious It's one of my faves! You're welcome! 💚🩷💚 1w

dabbe @kelli7990 💚🩷💚 1w

dabbe @Bookwomble I think it's the only one set at Christmastime, too! 🤩🤗😃 1w

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dabbe

The Man with the Twisted Lip | Arthur Conan Doyle

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What did y'all think? 🤩

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IndoorDame I‘m of 2 minds about this one. At first I was delighted by the surprise reveal! But in the end I genuinely wasn‘t convinced that someone could support a wife and kids in an upper/middle class-ish lifestyle by begging 1w

Librarybelle I found this one to be weak - in the prior cases, there has been murder and revenge and other elements akin to a mystery. This one just seemed so lackluster. As I read, I kept thinking something big had to happen, and well, it didn‘t for me. Though, I‘ve been reading thrillers and other mysteries lately that have my pulse on edge, so this could be a fairly poor assessment. 1w

Cuilin Started off slow, the mystery was interesting. And as @IndoorDame said I also wasn‘t convinced that begging could support an upper middle-class life style. 1w

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dabbe Other than perhaps Doyle giving us his “just say no“ to drugs policy, I didn't see why we had to be inside the opium den--unless it was again to see how excellent Holmes is at disguising himself. Agree with all of you above re: just how much one could make on begging. 1w

CogsOfEncouragement I figured this one out, I think mostly because Holmes himself is always using disguises. The hidden clothes clued me in. 1w

CrystalE02 I did like the story, not my favorites from the others. I get a kick out of Holmes and his disguises. 1w

kelli7990 I liked this one. 1w

Aimeesue I like this one. Stephen King also used the businessman to beggar idea in a section Hearts in Atlantis, which I reread tonight. Depending on where you‘re asking for handouts, and your skill, you can make quite a bit, according to those who‘ve done it. My area has a lot of panhandlers who work the main streets - some of them have been doing it for years in the same locations. 1w

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