The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 3

著： Conan Doyle
発行：グーテンベルク21
シリーズ： The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
価格：210円(税込)

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　アーサー・コナン・ドイル（１８５９～１９３０）
　スコットランド、エディンバラに生まれる。大学医学部を卒業後、ポーツマス市郊外に開業。その余暇を利用して創作活動を手がける。２７歳のときに書いた『緋色の研究』は当初あちこちの出版社から送り返される憂き目に遭うが、「四つの署名」「ボヘミアの醜聞」などの作品が大反響を呼び、一躍人気作家となる。以来「ストランド」誌にホームズ物を連載し、世界中の読者を熱狂させた。
　１９３０年、サセックスのクラウバラにて永眠。７１歳。
　ロンドンのベイカー街には、今もなおホームズ宛ての手紙が届き続けているという。

解説

　コナン・ドイル『シャーロック・ホームズの冒険』の英語版原書。
　ロンドンに巻き起こる怪事件に遭遇した依頼人たちは、今日もベイカー街２２１Ｂの呼び鈴を鳴らす――。
　さまざまな事件を、ホームズが怜悧な推理と大胆な行動力、そして相棒ワトスンの協力をもってあざやかに解決してゆく。世界で最も著名な名探偵シャーロック・ホームズの傑作短編集『シャーロック・ホームズの冒険』から「青い紅玉」「まだらのひも」「技師のおや指」の３編を収録。

　本書はすべて英文です。日本語訳をご希望の方は、『シャーロック・ホームズの冒険』（鈴木幸夫訳）をご購入ください。

抄録

I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the secondmorning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him thecompliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in apurple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon theright, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newlystudied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, andon the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputablehard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in severalplaces. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chairsuggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for thepurpose of examination.
"You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you."
"Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discussmy results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked histhumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points inconnection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest andeven of instruction."
I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before hiscrackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windowswere thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that,homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on toit--that it is the clew which will guide you in the solution ofsome mystery and the punishment of some crime."
"No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one ofthose whimsical little incidents which will happen when you havefour million human beings all jostling each other within thespace of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of sodense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of eventsmay be expected to take place, and many a little problem will bepresented which may be striking and bizarre without beingcriminal. We have already had experience of such."