The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Book)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Original title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ) are a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle . The stories were originally published in Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892 , the anthology of illustrations by Sidney Paget was published on October 14, 1892 in Great Britain and on October 15, 1892 in the USA. At the center of the plot are Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson solving the strange crimes. In doing so, Holmes uses his method of deduction , which almost always brings him to the desired goal.
The stories
The German titles can differ in different translations or compilations.
A Scandal in Bohemia
On March 20, 1888, Sherlock Holmes received a letter announcing a masked visitor for the early evening. From the sentence structure and the stationery, the master detective concludes that he is dealing with a German from Bohemia , and it does not take long before he unmasked the alleged Count von Kramm as the Bohemian Hereditary King Wilhelm. A few days before his wedding to the Scandinavian princess Clothilde, the gigantic monarch fears being blackmailed by the former opera singer Irene Adler , whom he met five years ago in Warsaw . In three days, when the marriage is made public, his former lover wants to send a compromising photo to the in-laws to break the wedding. Various attempts to steal the photo from Irene's London house failed.
In the disguise of a groom, Holmes observes the Eagles' mansion in St John's Wood, where he witnesses how she and her regular visitor, the lawyer Godfrey Norton, ride in separate horse-drawn carriages to a church to be married. After the persecution, Holmes is even given the honor of serving as best man. That evening he returns to the villa, in front of which he puts on a show in which he also includes his partner, Dr Watson. Disguised as a Methodist preacher, when Irene Norton arrives he is apparently wounded in a staged street fight and is taken to the living room for care by the lady of the house. At Holmes' command, Watson throws a smoke rocket into the villa, and the detective witnesses how the eagles instinctively take the photo out of hiding to protect it from the fire. After Holmes has escaped from the general unrest, he resolves to ring the doorbell with the prince in the villa first thing in the morning to secure the photo in peace.
But that doesn't happen anymore. Irene Norton, who saw through the maneuver, rushed to the continent with her husband early in the morning. In the hiding place of the photo, the astonished Holmes finds only another picture and a message: The escaped landlady had been warned that he would take care of the case and will now refrain from sending the photo for the time being. For King Wilhelm, who, despite everything, looks at the marriage of his ex- mistress with sadness, the matter comes at a reasonable price: Holmes is satisfied with the photo of Irene Norton he found.
Der Bund der Rothaarigen, [also: Der Bund der Rotschöpfen or Die Liga der Rotschöpfern] (The Red-Headed League)
Jabez Wilson, pawnbroker , needs Holmes' advice. Two months earlier, allegedly on April 27, 1890, his employee Vincent Spaulding drew his attention to a newspaper advertisement. In it, a so-called "League of Redheads" offered the enormous wage of four pounds a week for a simple sideline. Prerequisite: The applicant must have bright red hair and must not leave the office at any cost during working hours. Wilson gets the job. From then on, he spends four hours a day in the league's office, during which time he copies the Encyclopedia Britannica . Meanwhile, his employee Vincent Spaulding takes care of his pawn shop.
But on the morning of October 9, 1890, everything is different: When Wilson appears, he only finds a note on the door, followed by the terse message that the league has been dissolved. There is no trace of his superior, the name was wrong and no one in the house has ever heard of the league. Angry about the loss of the well-paid job, Wilson makes his way to Holmes.
Holmes finds the story remarkable. He is particularly interested in Wilson's employee Spaulding, who first made his boss aware of the league: Spaulding works voluntarily for half his wages. But he also has weaknesses, according to Wilson: Spaulding is obsessed with photography and often disappears in the basement.
Holmes in a good mood sends the pawnbroker home and takes Watson to a concert. On the way they visit Wilson's shop and briefly meet the clerk. At this point, Holmes says he has solved the case, but as usual he has not yet revealed anything. Late in the evening, Holmes, Watson, a Scotland Yard official and a bank manager meet again nearby and hide in the vault of the City and Suburban Bank. That night, two intruders appear who have dug a tunnel into the vault. It's Spaulding and an accomplice. Holmes had discovered that the whole Redhead League story was a ploy to get pawnbroker Wilson out of the house for a few hours a day. During this time, the perpetrators dug the tunnel to the bank directly adjacent to the pawn shop. The trick with the league, Spaulding's trouser knees chafed with ditch, and the neighborhood of pawn shops and bank had put Holmes on the right track.
A question of identity [also: The enigmatic bridegroom or a case of clever deception, etc.] (A Case of Identity)
After poking around in front of Sherlock Holmes' house for a while, the young secretary Mary Sutherland finally makes it up to confide her unusual affair to him. After her father's death, her mother married the wine merchant James Windibank, who was almost fifteen years her junior and who is only about five years older than Mary. Against the wishes of the stepfather, who generally rejects the leisure activities of Mary and her mother, she attended a gas fitters' ball, where she met the cashier Hosmer Angel. While the stepfather was working in France, she met her new fiancé several times, although she did not know exactly where he lived and worked. On the way to the church wedding, the groom disappeared from the carriage without ever reappearing. Shortly before, Hosmer had Mary swear him eternal loyalty, even if something unforeseen should happen to him. A letter to the stepfather in which she announced the wedding at the last minute came back unopened from Bordeaux .
It is clear to Holmes that Mary will not see her bridegroom again. The description she used to search for her ex in the newspaper suggests that his bushy sideburns, tinted glasses and very low voice were just Windibank's methods of impersonating a different man. The love letters to Mary are also signed with the typewriter because otherwise the stepfather would have exposed himself through his distinctive handwriting. The final proof of Holmes' thesis is provided by an exchange of letters with Windibank, in which he promises a visit to the house of the master detective: The peculiarities of the typeface show that the reply letter was created with the same typewriter as the love letters of the alleged Hosmer Angel. The stepfather admits that by using this method he wanted to destroy Mary's interest in male stories once and for all. As Holmes concludes, the deeper meaning behind it lies in Mary's lucrative income from New Zealand stocks, which an uncle bequeathed to her and whose proceeds Windibank did not want to forego. There was of course never any activity in Bordeaux. Unmasked in this way, Windibank escapes the interrogation, while Holmes refrains from informing Mary of his duplicity.
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
In the west of England's Boscombe Valley, the large farmer Charles McCarthy is found dead by a wooded pond where he is said to have had an important appointment with a stranger. Since, according to witness statements, his 18-year-old son James followed him with a gun and there was a loud argument between the two shortly before the crime, the matter seems clear, especially since the fatal injuries are likely to have been caused by the handle of the mentioned weapon . This is also the opinion of Watson, who is traveling with Holmes on a short-term train to Herefordshire , and the Scotland Yard agent Lestrade, who has ceded the case to the master detective. Holmes, on the other hand, had doubts because he did not at all value the resigned behavior of his son when he was arrested as an admission of guilt.
From the interrogation protocol, Holmes deduces that James McCarthy had just come home from Bristol on the day of the crime and that he was going to look at the rabbit pen by the pond when he suddenly came across his father. On the way home to the farm, he heard a scream and found his father seriously injured. With his last breath he mumbled something about a rat, and in the corner of his eye the son noticed a gray piece of clothing that had disappeared soon after. Once in the small town of Ross, Holmes receives a visit from James' sandpit lover Alice Turner, who puts in a good word for the suspect. She also reveals that the McCarthys dispute may have been about her because the father pushed his reluctant son to marry. A visit to the remand prison is less informative. After all, Holmes learns that two years ago James married a barmaid in Bristol who no one knows about and who has broken away from him in the light of recent events, especially since she has a different husband.
During an inspection of the crime scene, Holmes sees the suspect's statement confirmed by the boot prints. He identifies a stone as a real weapon, deduces from the remains of ash which brand of cigarette the perpetrator is smoking, and looks for a tall, limping left-hander in this regard. Only one Australian comes into question because the murdered man made the Australian call "Cooee" shortly before his death and with his last word he probably meant the gold rush town of Ballarat . Thus, year 60 of the about to diabetes to have been exposed in the final stage suffering landowner John Turner, who gives at this point, terrorized twenty years of McCarthy. At the time, he was the driver of a gold convoy in whose attack Turner was involved in Ballarat. After both of them moved to England in good health with their stolen fortune, McCarthy extorted from then on the free stay on the Turner estate. McCarthy demanded Alice as the future daughter-in-law in order to snatch the entire property of Turner and his son after his foreseeable death. To avoid this, Turner didn’t know what else to do after overhearing the McCarthys quarrel at the pond behind a tree. In the act, John Turner lost his gray coat, which he took back a little later. Given his health, John Turner goes unpunished after Holmes seeks the release of the innocent James McCarthy in court.
The Five Orange Pips
In the midst of a severe storm in September 1887, the almost 22-year-old John Openshaw made his way to Baker Street to reveal his precarious situation to Sherlock Holmes. At twelve, John was his uncle Elias, one in the care of US Civil War Veterans , who returned in 1870 from dissatisfaction with the political development of England. In his estate in Horsham , Sussex , the uncle led a solitary life until he received a letter from Pondicherry, India in March 1883 with five orange pits and the return address was KKK. That same evening he made his will before he withdrew almost completely to his room, terrified to death. When Elias was found dead in a shallow garden pond on May 2nd, everything pointed to a suicide. But the direct heirs, his brother Joseph, suffered a similar fate: At the beginning of 1885 he too received a letter from KKK with five dry cores, this time with a postmark from Dundee and the order " to attach the papers to the sundial ". Three days later he died in a fall over a deep limestone pit, which in turn was classified as an accident without any outside influence.
Now it seems to be the turn of nephew John, who received an ominous letter from east London the day before and therefore brings Holmes into the case. He presents him with a piece of paper that escaped the fire when his uncle burned the contents of a mysterious box with the KKK engraving shortly before his death. Holmes sends John home on the spot and tells him to put the box with the slip of paper and a note that all other papers had been burned on the sundial. Given his uncle's unexpected return to England, Holmes concludes that he was on the death list of the Ku Klux Klan , who are happy to send melon seeds or orange pits to their victims as an advance notice. And from the letters that were sent in port cities, he calculates that the perpetrator was dealing with a traveler on a sailing ship who was particularly interested in the unburned death list. This realization comes too late for John Openshaw - he is drowning on the way home near Waterloo Bridge in the Thames . At least the depressed Holmes can unmask Captain James Calhoun as the leader of the gang on the basis of the ship's timetables, but his arrest in Savannah does not take place : The "Lone Star" disappears without a trace in the storms of the Atlantic except for a plank.
The Speckled Band
In April 1883, Holmes and Watson, who at the time still shared their apartment at 221B Baker Street , received a visit from an excited woman. 32-year-old Helen Stoner tells Sherlock Holmes about her twin sister Julia, who mysteriously died two years ago - shortly before her planned wedding to a naval officer - on a stormy night in the family estate in Stoke Moran. As soon as she had told Helen about a strange nocturnal whistling noise, Julia uttered a scream in her bedroom and stumbled dazed into the hallway. She passed out with the words, "It was the speckled ribbon," without ever coming to. At the time of the crime, Helen, who was sleeping next door, also heard a low whistle, as well as a sound like a piece of metal falling to the floor. There were no traces of outside influence on the dead woman, especially since the window, door and fireplace of her bedroom were firmly locked or barred. Helen nevertheless suspects the gypsies who camp on the premises with the tolerance of their stepfather, because they wear brightly colored headscarves. In a few weeks Helen is about to get married. Since she was relocated to Julia's room for alleged repair work and heard the ominous whistling there again last night, she fears that her sister will suffer the same fate.
Holmes finds out in the estate registry that the mother's assets have depreciated considerably since her early death. Since Grimesby Roylott would have suffered financial losses in the marriage of both stepdaughters, the main suspicion is directed against him, especially since he is known to be unusually irascible and was serving a long prison sentence for manslaughter in India. He even shows up at Holmes' apartment to threaten the "snoop" with a poker and tell him to keep his nose out of the matter. On the other hand, Roylott had no objection to any of his stepdaughters' weddings.
Unbeknownst to him, Holmes and Watson examine the bedroom in Stoke Moran. There hangs a bell cord over the bed, which is never used and is not connected to any bell. It is a dummy that is attached to the vent for the fan. The bed is also bolted to the floor. With the inclusion of Roylott's passion for Indian animals - he keeps a leopard and a baboon - Holmes suddenly realizes what is being played here. To test his theory, he moves Helen into her actual bedroom and lies in wait with Watson at the crime scene. As expected, at a whistling sound, a marsh cobra crawled along the cord , to which the dying woman referred with her last words. Back then, Roylott had sent India's most dangerous snake into the next room to kill Julia. After the fatal bite, he whistled the snake back over the cord. Now Roylott sends the snake through the fan to kill Helen too. Holmes, who is in the bedroom instead of her, takes on her so that she crawls back through the fan into the next room and instead bites Roylott, who dies within seconds.
The Engineer's Thumb
In the summer of 1889, very early in the morning, the 25-year-old hydraulic engineer Victor Hatherley, who lost a thumb that night, appears in Watson's practice. Since he speaks of an assassination attempt, Watson immediately turns on Holmes. Hatherley tells him that yesterday an unusually thin man with a German accent came to see him in his miserable shop, who posed as Colonel Lysander Stark. Acting very mysteriously, he repeatedly allowed Hatherley to promise the utmost discretion until he finally revealed that it was about a hydraulic press that had gotten out of whack. Stark extracts fuller's earth on his property near Reading, which he conceals from other people by first compressing the earth into bricks with the help of the machine. Hatherley was uncomfortable with all this, especially since he was supposed to examine the press in the middle of the night, but he could not do without the £ 50 for the easy job, so he took the night train from Paddington to Eyford, seven miles from Reading .
Stark picked up Hatherley last night at the local train station in a single horse carriage . After an hour's drive in an unknown direction, the engineer found himself in a German-speaking household. A fearful woman suggested that he leave as soon as possible, but after the laborious journey he was reluctant to ignore his wages. With a bad feeling, he let Stark and his fat secretary Ferguson lead him through the labyrinth-like house into the tiny engine room. He quickly found the fault in a rotten rubber ring, but he also saw through that it wasn't really fuller's earth that was being extracted here , but rather metal. When Hatherley spoke this out openly, he was locked in the room. He narrowly escaped the deadly hydraulic system through a hatch in the wooden wall before the woman helped him escape the house. As he was hanging on the window ledge, Stark, whose first name is actually Fritz, struck his hand with the butcher's knife and severed his thumb in the process. After a long period of unconsciousness, Hatherley found himself in a hedge near the train station. So he took the train to see Watson.
Holmes is reminded of a search advertisement in which another hydraulic engineer was reported missing about a year ago, who was also last seen late in the evening. With a Scotland Yard inspector and a secret police officer, Holmes and Watson and the victim immediately travel to Eyford. On the basis of some evidence, Holmes concludes that the crime scene is very close - the hour-long carriage ride was only intended to cover this up. You are dealing with a large band of counterfeiters whose trail is lost in Reading. A column of smoke in the vicinity of the train station brings Holmes & Co to the house of Dr Becher alias Ferguson, which Hatherley recognizes. The fire must have started the oil lamp when it got into the hydraulic press. The ties to Becher, himself and his German accomplices, have long since flown out. Even Holmes can no longer catch it, whereas the fire brigade at the source of the fire is amazed at the large amounts of nickel and tin.
The Man with the Twisted Lip
In June 1889, Dr. Watson late at night visiting Kate Whitney, an old school friend of his wife who is worried about her husband. The drug addict Isa Whitney likes to go to an opium den on Swandam Lane in east London for a day , but he's been gone 48 hours. Watson locates his patient in the "golden tavern" and sends him home in a carriage. To his great surprise, Watson meets Holmes, who is incognito, shadowing the operator Lascar. Holmes is particularly interested in the fate of 37-year-old Neville St Clair, who may have died through a trap door in the back of the building.
The wealthy, well-loved St Clair came to Lee, Kent five years ago, where he bought a villa and started a family with a brewery daughter. When she picked up a package last Monday, she heard a scream in Swandam Lane and saw her husband gesticulating wildly at a window on the first floor of the house that also houses the opium den. When she was about to rush to his aid, Lascar shoved her into the street. Accompanied by the police, she was able to use a box of building blocks that the missing person had bought for the children to prove his presence in the apartment. There were also traces of blood on the window sill of the bedroom facing the landing stage, and behind a curtain the clothes of Neville St Clair. Lascar put all the blame on his tenant Hugh Boone, who should have been the last to see the missing person. The well-known beggar and cripple denies this. Apparently, he can't explain how the clothes got into his apartment. The missing coat of the wanted man, stuffed full of change, comes to light at the next ebb.
At the St Clairs mansion, Holmes makes no secret of the fact that Neville should no longer be alive. He was all the more astonished when Mrs. St Clair showed him a letter that was posted in Gravesend today and bears the hectic signature of the missing person. He writes of a "serious mistake" that will take some time to correct, and asks his wife to be patient. Holmes remains skeptical as to whether the news should be regarded as a sign of life. He also raises the question of whether she might not have misinterpreted the incident at the window. After a good night's sleep, he and Watson return to London early in the morning to see Boone, who is still sleeping, in the remand prison. With a sponge and some water, Holmes cleans the inmate's dirty, unwashed face and verifies his new theory: Underneath, the face of the missing Neville St Clair appears; even the harelip was only painted. The unmasked one explains that as a newspaper reporter he disguised himself as a beggar for the first time. Surprisingly, more money came together than in his real job, so that he also collected the money to pay a bill in this way and finally “worked” entirely as a beggar. The only one who knew about it was Lascar, whose apartment he used as a changing room. There he also removed his make-up on Monday when he looked through the window into the eyes of his unsuspecting wife, uttered a scream of surprise and tried to protect his face with his arms. Neville St Clair goes unpunished for his confession, provided that he renounces his double life as a beggar Boone.
The Blue Carbuncle
At Christmas there was an argument between 6 rowdies and a man. A Christmas goose and, according to Holmes estimates, a 3-year-old hat were dropped when the man and the rowdies fled at the sight of a police officer. He brought the goose and the hat to Sherlock. After a brief investigation, it turned out that this hat and goose belonged to a certain Henry Baker. A blue jewel was found in the goose's crop and it turned out to be the stolen blue carbuncle that originally belonged to the Countess of Morcar. A certain John Horner was accused of stealing it. Holmes suspected that this man was innocent. After researching the origin of the goose, it turned out that it came from a dealer from Covent-Garden, who in turn received the goose from a breeder and sold it on. When they had finished questioning the trader, they noticed a boy who was also asking about a particular goose. Watson and Sherlock had a chat with him and took him to Baker Street. There the boy admitted to having stolen the jewel. Holmes let him go and did not notify the police, as the boy was very afraid that his parents would find out and that he would be imprisoned. Holmes was sure he would never do that again.
The noble bachelor [also: The disappeared bride] (The Noble Bachelor)
Lord Robert St Simon, the second son of the Duke of Balmoral, sent a letter to Holmes and Watson for the afternoon. From the newspapers they recapitulate that the 41-year-old wanted to marry Hatty Doran, the only daughter of a US millionaire from San Francisco , the day before . After the church wedding in close family circle, however, the bride disappeared without a trace from the wedding table at Lancaster Gate. The suspicion particularly arouses St Simon's former lover Flora Millar, who had tried in vain to break into the house in order to make claims on the duke's son. Upon arriving on Baker Street, inconsolable St Simon describes his bride, whom he met a year ago in her hometown, as an unconventional tomboy. Holmes pricks up his ears when the groom tells of a seemingly insignificant incident in which Hatty dropped her bouquet on the way to the sacristy . A gentleman handed her the flowers, whereupon she looked disturbed and talked animatedly with her maid Alice for a few minutes. Then she hurried out of the breakfast room. She was seen one last time in Hyde Park , accompanied by her rival Millar of all people.
St Simon cannot imagine that Flora Millar had anything to do with the disappearance of Hatty. Rather, he thinks his bride got the nerve flutter because of her social advancement. In view of a few comparable cases, it is clear to Holmes at this point that Hatty ran away with another man. The missing persons' bridal clothes, which Scotland Yard agent Lestrade fished out of the Serpentine Pond, do not change that. A note found in it with steep prices for bed and breakfast shows Holmes in which hotel he should look for Hatty. So there is a confrontation between St Simon and Hatty on Baker Street, who brings another man with her. She confesses that she got engaged to the miner Francis Hay Moulton years ago against her father's wishes. One day she learned from the newspaper that her fiancé was killed in an attack by Apache Indians in Montana. Her astonishment was all the greater when she suddenly looked the person believed dead in the eyes during the church wedding. In order to receive a piece of paper with his note on it, she pretended in the church that she had dropped the flowers. When she later saw Frank across the street, she stepped away from the wedding table without saying goodbye because she felt intimidated by the presence of high-ranking personalities. After this confession, Lord St Simon, disappointed, waives the dinner prepared by Holmes and withdraws.
The Beryl Coronet
On a snowy February morning, Dr. Watson saw a well-dressed gentleman about 50 years old from the window, who made the impression of a madman with his movements. But it is about Alexander Holder, the partner in the second-largest London private bank Holder & Stevenson, for whom hurried hikes are simply unfamiliar. Yesterday at the office one of the most prominent people in England asked him for a short-term loan of £ 50,000 to be paid back on Monday. As security, the celebrity presented the beryl crown, which was at least twice as valuable, with a request for the utmost discretion. Since Holder mistrusted his office vault, he took the jewel home to Streatham with a queasy feeling. He told his niece Mary, whom he adopted and who runs the household for the widower, and his only son Arthur, who became addicted to gambling under the ill influence of his older, cosmopolitan friend George Burnwell, about the souvenir. So yesterday Arthur tried again in vain to pump up his father with 200 pounds for his aristocratic club. Later that night, when Holder woke up to a noise, he surprised his son red-handed as he was tampering with the crown, which was also missing a gold top with three of the 39 beryl stones. Offended by being suspected of being a thief, Arthur refused to give any information about the incidents. A body search and house search did not provide any information.
A few hours after the crime, Holder now fears for his honor, although he does not doubt Arthur's guilt. Holmes, on the other hand, could imagine that he just wanted to straighten the crown. At the scene of the event, he also supports Mary's concerns as to whether the silence of her cousin should really be seen as an admission of guilt. After all, the new maid, Lucy Parr, may have found out about the crown when she walked in the back door after meeting an admirer at the garden gate. Under no circumstances can the crown in the house have been damaged because breaking out the gold ceiling would have triggered a loud, unmistakable bang. From the footprints in the snow, Holmes reads what actually happened: Mary, apparently above suspicion, let the desperate villain Burnwell wrap her around her finger and handed him the crown at the window. Stricken with insomnia, Arthur watched and ran outside barefoot to steal the crown from Burnwell. It was damaged in the fights that Arthur did indeed try to straighten the diadem . However, he couldn't reveal the truth without incriminating his beloved cousin. Arthur has now confirmed this theory to Holmes, for which he is released from custody. Mary, on the other hand, ran away with Burnwell, not without leaving a parting note. In return, Holmes was able to find out to whom Burnwell had sold the beryl stones and to buy them back at a slight loss.
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Young Violet Hunter served as governess in the household of a colonel for five years, but has not been able to find a new job since he moved to Canada two months ago. When she went to the housekeeping agency last week, however, she met the plump Jephro Rucastle in her employment agency's room, who wanted to hire her on the spot. He even offered her double her previous wages, even though she was only supposed to look after one child - the six-year-old son of the family. However, Rucastle made it a condition that Violet should wear a certain blue dress in the morning. Above all, of course, she would have to cut off her long, brunette hair, ostensibly to satisfy his wife's will. Under these circumstances Violet gave him a basket, which earned her a punishing look from the mediator. After much thought, she is now inclined to change her mind, especially since Rucastle sends her a letter promising an even higher salary. For Holmes too, it is a mystery why there should be so much money for such an easy job. Even so, he lets Violet move to the Copper Beeches country house in Hampshire, about five miles from Winchester. He asks her to send a telegram if she needs help.
A fortnight later, the time has come: In a hotel room in Winchester , Violet reports to Dr Watson and Holmes that Mrs. Rucastle is not - as feared - insane and yet carries around with an inexplicable grief. She doesn't laugh either when Violet has to put on her blue dress in the morning hours and Rucastle makes him laugh for an hour through funny stories. At this ceremony a week ago she noticed a little man from the window, who was looking in her direction from the street and to whom she waved briefly before Mrs. Rucastle lowered the blinds. To make matters worse, she found brown woman's hair in a locked drawer that looked astonishingly like her clipped mane. After all, a supposedly uninhabited apartment wing seems to hide a secret, even if Rucastle pretends to develop his films in the darkened room. In her aroused curiosity, Violet found out that the light was on in the locked room. Rucastle threatens to throw her to the bull-biter Carlo if he catches her in the wing again.
Holmes concludes from all the evidence that Rucastle's daughter Alice from her first marriage, who is said to have gone to the USA because she doesn't get along with her stepmother, is actually being held in the alleged darkroom. So Violet was only obliged because of her resemblance to the daughter and put in her blue dress to pretend to the fiance waiting in front of the house that Alice is fine and that she is no longer paying attention to his recruiting. The six-year-old son, who, according to Violet's statements, is developing into a cruel animal tormentor, suggests what else can be expected behind the facade of the Rucastles. Since the landlords won't be home in the evening and groom Toller is still drunk, Holmes and Watson take on the villa after Violet has lured Mrs. Toller into the basement and locked her there. You find the darkroom empty and are surprised by Rucastle, who got wind of the action and has now released the dangerous dog. Watson shoots him down, saving Rucastle's life. As Mrs. Toller reports, Alice had refused to give her money to her father even if she got married. After surviving an illness in which she had to lose her hair, she was then locked up by him and Violet hired as a double. The fiancé named Fowler could not be dismissed, so he has just helped Alice to escape with a ladder. Both marry next day in Southampton and move to Mauritius over while Violet takes over the management of a private school in Walsall.
Film adaptations
In 1939 a film of the same name was made by director Alfred Werker with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce . It is not based on the tales of Conan Doyle , but on the play Sherlock Holmes by William Gillette . But there were several short stories in the band for some of the film adaptations with Rathbone. B. was the story The five orange pits the template for The House of Terror ; but, as is usual with this film series, the story was handled very freely.
The British television series Sherlock Holmes was created between 1984 and 1994 , in which eight of the stories in this collection were filmed. With a total of 36 episodes and 5 films, this series is the most extensive film adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes works by Arthur Conan Doyle . Sherlock Holmes was played there by Jeremy Brett and Dr. Watson first by David Burke , but then by Edward Hardwicke . The series is known for its very faithful adaptations.
In the films Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: Spiel im Schatten , Irene Adler appears as Sherlock Holmes' lover.
expenditure
- Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (translation: Gisbert Haefs), Haffmans, Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-251-20104-2 .
- Same translation (paperback), Insel, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-458-35017-0 .
- Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes Collected Works , Hardcover (Translator: Adolf Gleiner, Margarete Jacobi, Louis Ottmann, Rudolf Lautenbach), Anaconda, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86647-850-3 .
- Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (translation: Henning Ahrens), Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-596-03560-1 .
Web links
German translations at Gutenberg.de
- A scandal in Bohemia
- The League of Redheads
- A question of identity
- The Boscombe Valley Secret
- The five orange pits
- The speckled ribbon
- Engineer's thumb
- The man with the disfigured lip
- The blue carbuncle
- The noble bachelor
- The beryl crown
- The blood beeches
Remarks
- ↑ The publication date of the newspaper advertisement mentioned in the text does not match the other times. Wilson visits Holmes one autumn afternoon; the dissolution of the league is later dated October 9, 1890. The advertisement published two months or eight weeks earlier should therefore have appeared at the end of July or the beginning of August. Doyles corrects this mistake accordingly in some translations.
A scandal in Bohemia (1891) | The League of Redheads (1891) | A question of identity (1891) | The Secret of Boscombe Valley (1891) | The five orange pits (1891) | The Man with the Disfigured Lip (1891) | The blue carbuncle (1892) | The Speckled Ribbon (1892) | The Engineer's Thumb (1892) | The noble bachelor (1892) | The beryl crown (1892) | The beeches (1892)