At this moment he fell back upon his pillow as if he had been shot, while the same look of horror came over his face which I had observed when I first entered the room. At the same instant there came, apparently from the air immediately above his bed, a sharp, ringing, tinkling sound, which I can only compare with the noise made by a bicycle alarm, though it differed from this in having a distinctly throbbing character. I have never, before or since, heard any sound which could be confounded with it.
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Scottish-born Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) is best remembered as the creator of Baker Street's Sherlock Holmes.
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Arthur Conan Doyle is chiefly known for his greatest creation, Sherlock Holmes, that most rational of beings. But Doyle also passionately came to believe in his later years that ghosts and fairies existed, and that his wife, among many others, could talk to the dead. Here, in "The Mystery of Cloomber," we get both Doyles in one story: a mystery yarn with an occult tinge. Fans of the Holmes stories will enjoy it for its rather-more-stodgy-than-usual telling of a suspense tale that might have puzzled Sherlock Holmes (briefly), if he'd believed in astral projection and Eastern mysticism and numerous Theosophical notions of the time.It's enjoyable reading for all that, and will be a pleasurable reading experience in direct correlation with your affection for Doyle and Holmes. I liked it, despite the occult trappings. Note: This book is available in its entirety online.
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This is the only mystery book written by Canon Doyle that does not have his world famous detective Sherlock Holmes. It is an excellent mystery which starts in British India, and then continues on in England. It is about revenge, torment and suffering which left me kind of sad in the end.
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- A Study in Scarlet (Oxford World's Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle on 5 pages
- The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- Crime and Empire: The Colony in Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Crime by Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee in Back Matter
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