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Title: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator: Robin Sachs
Format: Unabridged
Length: 46 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-15-17
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:
Originally published in a 1892 edition of Strand Magazine, "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" was one of 12 short stories to be included in the first Sherlock Holmes collection, the 1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. In this tale, Holmes and Watson investigate two cases - one involving a Christmas goose and a hat and the other, the theft of the Blue Carbuncle, a priceless jewel. The cases are quickly revealed to be intertwined, and the spirit of the holidays influences the tale's end. This recording of "The Adventures of the Blue Carbuncle" was recorded as part of Dreamscape's Classic Christmas Stories: A Collection of Timeless Holiday Tales.

Members Reviews:
Fun Christmas time read
A short fun classic Sherlock Holms story. A fun read aloud that has a good moral of forgiveness and can open good discussions with kids about judgement

This is a great book. I would highly recommend this book
This is a great book. I would highly recommend this book. As usual this is another great book by a great author.

Quick, fun, clever!
Another quick Holmes adventure via audio for my car ride to work. A perfect little holiday novella for the day after Christmas was a fun and festive ride. Iâm starting to notice that all Holmes stories have a bit too much âtellâ to them where either Holmes reveals everything through a narrative or the culprit tells all at the end, so itâs not as much fun as having some more things revealed bit by bit, but I always do love the clues jam-packed into a story that only Holmes can point out. This one was fun with holiday theme at the right time and I actually did like the Holmes reveal a bit more in this one since it was such a short story.

Excellent plot
A very entertaining mystery short story from the Sherlock Holmes short stories collection. The plot is quite simple and intelligent: Watson visits his friend Holmes at Christmas time and finds him contemplating a battered old hat, brought to him by the commissionaire Peterson after the hat and a Christmas goose had been dropped by a man in a scuffle with some street ruffians. Peterson takes the goose home to eat, but later returns to Holmes with a blue carbuncle his wife had found in the bird's crop (throat). Holmes makes some interesting deductions concerning the owner of the hat from simple observations of its condition, conclusions amply confirmed when an advertisement for the owner produces the man himself: Henry Baker.
Holmes cannot resist such an intriguing mystery, and he and Watson set out across the city to determine exactly how the jewel, stolen from the Countess of Morcar during her stay at a hotel, wound up in a goose's crop. The man who dropped the goose, Mr. Henry Baker, comes to reclaim his hat in response to Holmes' advertisement. Holmes drops hints about how he saved the "innards" of the goose, but Baker fails to respond to them, simply saying that he is afraid goose remains are not much use. He does, however, give Holmes valuable information, eventually leading him to the conclusive stage of his investigation, at Covent Garden. Holmes offers a fresh goose to Henry Baker, who responds with gladness and departs, whereupon Holmes tells Watson that Baker is eliminated from the suspect list as he obviously knows nothing about the carbuncle.