The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes. The story follows a young woman named Violet Hunter who seeks Holmes' help in finding a job as a governess. However, things are not as they seem, and Holmes must use his deductive skills to uncover the truth behind the mysterious employment agency and the sinister forces at play.

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · First published 1892 · Genre: Mystery, Detective Fiction, Crime · 11,885 words

First lines

"To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped this truth that in these little records of our cases which you have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made my special province. "

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• Work type: Novel
• Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Date: 1892 CE
• Language: English
• Genres: Mystery, Detective Fiction, Crime, Adventure
• Length: 11,885 words
• Structure: 1 section, 215 paragraphs
• Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)

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Genres

• Mystery — The main storyline revolves around solving a mysterious case, a typical characteristic of the mystery genre.
• Detective Fiction — The book features the character Sherlock Holmes who is a detective solving complex cases, a common theme in detective fiction.
• Crime — The book involves investigation of different crimes, which is a primary theme in the crime genre.
• Adventure — The storyline includes thrilling and risky undertakings, which is indicative of the Adventure genre.

Tags

mystery · detective · Sherlock Holmes · Watson · crime · investigation · suspense · Victorian · literature · short story · thriller · clue

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