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    A Scandal In Bohemia
    A Scandal In Bohemia
    A Scandal In Bohemia
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    A Scandal In Bohemia

    By Arthur Conan Doyle and P. James Macaluso

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    Sherlock Holmes, the world’s “only unofficial consulting detective”, was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887.It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the master sleuth grew tremendously in popularity, later to become one of the most beloved literary characters of all time. In this book series, the short stories comprising The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes have been amusingly illustrated using only Lego® brand minifigures and bricks. The illustrations recreate, through custom designed Lego models, the composition of the black and white drawings by Sidney Paget that accompanied the original publication of these adventures appearing in The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892.Paget’s iconic illustrations are largely responsible for the popular image of Sherlock Holmes, including his deerstalker cap and Inverness cape, details never mentioned in the writings of Conan Doyle. This uniquely illustrated collection, which features some of the most famous and enjoyable cases investigated by Sherlock Holmes and his devoted friend and biographer Dr. John H. Watson, including “A scandal in Bohemia” and “The Red-Headed League”, is sure to delight Lego enthusiasts, as well as fans of the Great Detective, both old and new.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMX Publishing
    Release dateAug 31, 2016
    ISBN9781780926056
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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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    • 4/5
      Bested by a woman, gotcha Mr Holmes! I thoroughly enjoyed the fast pace of this story, loved the disguises and the ending was just magic!
    • 3/5
      This book has 6 short stories.In A Scandal in Bohemia, Holmes tried to take back a picture from Irene Adler.I thought she was very clever and interesting.And I was surprised at holmes doing anything for his work.
    • 4/5
      This is only one case that Holmes' plan failed.He was asked by the king of Bohemia to get back the evidence picture of his scandal.so he tried to get the evidence picture of the king's scandal,but his plan was revealed by one wamon,and he couldn'tget back the picture.But the end,the king of Bohemia satisfied the result, and asked Holmes what did he want as a reward.Then he said that he wanted the picture of the mowan who revealed his plan! I was surprised to hear that, but I thought thatwas just like characteristic of him!
    • 5/5
      I could enjoyed this book very much. Holmes' speculations were interesting. When he solved a problem and explained the trick, I really felt good. I'll read other books about Homes.
    • 4/5
      In this book, a woman who Holmes seemed to love only in his life is appeared.Her name is Irene Adler.One day a mask man visit Holmes.He was a king of Bohemia.His request is finding diamond.On the way to investigation,Holmes met her.She is very beautiful and clever.The brain tactics of Holmes and Adler are highlights in this story.Two people are very very clever!!You may not see next scene.You should read it once!!

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    A Scandal In Bohemia - Arthur Conan Doyle

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    To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer - excellent for drawing the veil from men’s motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.

    I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of my former friend and

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