A case of identity

By Arthur Conan Doyle

The story revolves around the case of Miss Mary Sutherland, a woman with a substantial income from the interest on a fund set up for her. She is engaged to a quiet Londoner who has recently disappeared. Sherlock Holmes's detective powers are barely challenged as this turns out to be quite an elementary case for him, much as it puzzles Watson.
The fiancé, Mr. Hosmer Angel, is a peculiar character, rather quiet, and rather secretive about his life. Miss Sutherland only knows that he works in an office in Leadenhall Street, but nothing more specific than that. All his letters to her are typewritten, even the signature, and he insists that she write back to him through the local Post Office.
The climax of the sad liaison comes when Mr. Angel abandons Miss Sutherland at the altar on their wedding day.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Arthur Conan Doyle
• Release date: Sep 25, 2014
• ISBN: 9781502435521

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is the creator of the Sherlock Holmes character, writing his debut appearance in A Study in Scarlet. Doyle wrote notable books in the fantasy and science fiction genres, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.

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Obra escrita en 1891 por Arthur Conan Doyle

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A Case of Identity

My dear fellow, said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generation, and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

And yet I am not convinced of it, I answered. The cases which come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, neither fascinating nor artistic.

A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a realistic effect, remarked Holmes. This is wanting in the police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the com-monplace.

I smiled and shook my head. I can quite understand your thinking so. I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout

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[mrtall_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This volume comprises a very good selection of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories -- from heavily-anthologized classics such as 'The Red-Headed League' to stories I'd not encountered before, such as 'The Greek Interpreter'. The longest work included is the novella 'The Sign of Four', which was the only inclusion that left my attention wandering a bit. On the whole, however, this collection forms an excellent introduction to the Sherlock Holmes stories. One note: the stories selected span the full range of Conan Doyle's Holmes opus, so some stories contain references to works that aren't included; some of these are definitely spoilers, so if you're completely fresh to Holmes, you might want to miss this one out and read the stories in a more chronologically-systematic fashion. Holmes would approve, of course!