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He was too absurd to make me angry.

The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle

June 3, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Lost World In a short length rant against skeptics, Arthur Conan Doyle presents us with Professor Challenger. I jest, but almost not so much. This novel is another kind of quintessential novel we see made, remade, and parodied in a lot of other forms of culture. Think the evil the explorer character in Up, for example, as a Professor Challenger kind of character, the scientific explorer, left without proof having experienced something amazing. This book is also a kind of proto King Kong, and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Arthur Conan Doyle, his last bow, the lost world

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:308 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Arthur Conan Doyle, his last bow, the lost world ·
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“You are the one fixed point in a changing age.”

November 30, 2018 by narfna Leave a Comment

This is the shortest Holmes story collection: only eight stories and a preface written by Watson, explaining that Holmes is now retired to Sussex and keeping bees, and here are some stories he hasn’t yet published about their adventures, including their very last one. (All the stories in the last published book, The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes, apparently take place before “His Last Bow” as well.) Because of the shortness, you feel it a little bit more when a story is a dud. In particular, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery Tagged With: Arthur Conan Doyle, Detective Fiction, his last bow, mysteries, narfna, Sherlock Holmes, Stephen Fry

narfna's CBR10 Review No:157 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery · Tags: Arthur Conan Doyle, Detective Fiction, his last bow, mysteries, narfna, Sherlock Holmes, Stephen Fry ·
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