
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


A Double Barrelled Detective Story is a novel by Mark Twain, in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. At a mining camp in California, Fetlock Jones, a nephew of Sherlock Holmes, kills his master, a silver-miner, by blowing up his cabin.
Since this occurs when Holmes happens to be visiting, he brings his skills to bear upon the case and arrives at logically worked conclusions that are proved to be abysmally wrong by an amateur detective with an extremely keen sense of smell, which he employs in solving the case.
This could be seen as yet another piece where Twain tries to prove that life does not quite follow logic. (From Wikipedia.)
By Great Literature4.4
139139 ratings
A Double Barrelled Detective Story is a novel by Mark Twain, in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. At a mining camp in California, Fetlock Jones, a nephew of Sherlock Holmes, kills his master, a silver-miner, by blowing up his cabin.
Since this occurs when Holmes happens to be visiting, he brings his skills to bear upon the case and arrives at logically worked conclusions that are proved to be abysmally wrong by an amateur detective with an extremely keen sense of smell, which he employs in solving the case.
This could be seen as yet another piece where Twain tries to prove that life does not quite follow logic. (From Wikipedia.)

78,688 Listeners

2,504 Listeners

5,576 Listeners

3,196 Listeners

1,475 Listeners

3,358 Listeners

671 Listeners

1,920 Listeners

2,854 Listeners

805 Listeners

214 Listeners

602 Listeners

943 Listeners

276 Listeners

344 Listeners