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The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Another point, small but suggestive, was that he hardly ever during the months that I was at Willow Lea House received any letters, and on those few occasions they were obviously tradesmen's bills. I am an early riser, and used every morning to pick my own correspondence out of the bundle upon the hall table. I could judge therefore how few were ever there for Mr. Theophilus St. James. There seemed to me to be something peculiarly ominous in this. What sort of a man could he be who during thirty years of his life had never made a single friend, high or low, who cared to continue to kee. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (ACD) has been typecast as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, and rightly so. However, ACD was a prolific short story writer with few peers. There is some excellent fiction in this collection. The Great Keinplatz Experiment, published in 1894, must have been considered surreal.
Although I had recently read about a third of the stories in Round the Fire Stories by Doyle, I still found a couple of the other stories to be very good. Of course, like many of his non-Holmes books, the majority are fair at best.
3.9⭐
The Brown Hand 4⭐
The Usher of Lea House School 4⭐
B. 24 4.25⭐
The Great Keinplatz Experiment 3.5 ⭐
Cyprian Overbeck Wells 3.5⭐
Playing with Fire 3.5⭐
The Ring of Thoth 4⭐
The Los Amigos Fiasco 3.25⭐
How It Happened 5⭐
Lot No. 249 4.5⭐
De Profundis 3.25⭐
The Lift 4⭐
This review is for the short story The Great Keinplatz Experiment only. I can't say that I am a fan of this story of a failed experiment in mesmerism involving a professor and one of his students. It's not a bad story, it just seems silly to me. Audible edition.
This collection features an assortment of tales that vary in terms of length, content, theme, and style. I've given it four stars because the best stories really were very impressive. They are "The Brown Hand", "B. 24", "How It Happened", "Lot No. 249", "The Ring of Thoth", and "The Lift". With the