The Book Depository The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Description: The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780141199719 : 0141199717 : 30 Aug 2012 : Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion, and his faithful colleague Dr Watson, solve these breathtaking and perplexing mysteries. The Book Depository The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780141199719
MPN: 0141199717
GTIN: 9780141199719
Author: Patsy
Rating: 4
Review: There's a lot packed into each of these stories – they don't make for the quick easy read you might expect from a short story collection, but they're definitely interesting enough to be worth the concentration required. I loved the way Sherlock's deductions seem almost obvious once they're explained, yet very few are worked out by others until he does that.
Author: indiejones
Rating: 4
Review: Not only to John Watson but to the readers themselves Sherlock Holmes seems like a magician, being able to reconstruct even the most abstruse cases and incidents, that is until he explains how, by the use of his mind and simple logic, he managed to solve yet another mystery. Doyle‘s way of constructing the adventures and cases is witty and always left me yearning for the solution I myself could not seem to work out. Yet what I could not help but notice his stance on people of colour and women. In some of his stories his misogynist attitudes are not only brought forward by Sherlock Holmes himself (who is known to have less respect for the "weaker sex" than for men), but through the way the stories are told and in one case the "weaker constitution of the female sex" is used as an evidential fact in support of the solution of a case. The Sherlock Holmes stories are without any doubt classics and really fun to read. They provide their readers with entertaining, clever and mysterious stories and are thus perfect to forget about reality and the rest of the world. Yet, it is important to keep in mind that they are not perfect or inclusive (apart from some exceptions) and therefore should not be glorified as such.
