A Scandal in Bohemia
A Scandal in Bohemia (Original Title: A Scandal in Bohemia ) is a narrative of the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, who in July 1891 at the beach for the first time appeared in magazines. This is the first story that Doyle wrote with the characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. 1887 and 1890 had placed A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four, the foundation for the main canon of Sherlock Holmes stories, the two novels.
A Scandal in Bohemia was also publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in the anthology in 1892 and is one of the most popular Sherlock Holmes stories. In 1927, she listed Conan Doyle in person at rank 5 of his favorite Holmes stories.
Action
On the evening of March 20, 1888 Sherlock Holmes is visited by his friend Doctor Watson in the 221 B Baker Street. Holmes has previously received an ominous letter. Shortly thereafter, the client arrives. Holmes can identify it early as the reigning king of Bohemia and Moravia, although the client wanted to keep his true identity secret originally. The case is easily explained. The King of Bohemia intends to marry, however, fears that a former lover Irene Adler wants to work against this trend by making a photograph public, on which they are both to see which the former romance will be publicly accessible. Holmes to obtain this photograph now. Several attempts to reach the part of the king by burglars to photography failed.
Holmes dresses up for his own purposes as a stable boy and an old clergyman, in order to get information about Irene Adler. He succeeds by trickery even to the hiding place to go, but is unmasked by Adler. This has married recently in the wake of the plot Godfrey Norton, and finally leaves the country. She takes with the photograph to protect themselves in the future before the king, if these attacks plan on it. All this she shares with Holmes and the other by a letter she left behind where they had kept the photograph to before. Holmes finds him there to come in the hope of the photo.
Holmes thus succeeds not successfully complete the case, since the ultimate goal to obtain the photograph failed. Yet there is a victory in defeat, since the photography will not be published.
Films
A Scandal in Bohemia has been widely adapted for TV and radio. In 1899 took the stage actor William Gillette elements of the story for his play Sherlock Holmes, which was also filmed several times.
The 1946 published Sherlock Holmes movie hunt for music boxes also contained elements of A Scandal in Bohemia. Alan Wheatley played in 1951 starring in the first TV adaptation of A Scandal in Bohemia as part of the TV series Sherlock Holmes.
Vasily Borisovich Livanov and Vitaly Solomin Mefodjewitsch played Holmes and Watson in a Soviet adaptation of some Holmes stories, including A Scandal in Bohemia.
An extremely accurate adaptation of the substance found in 1984 during the television series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett and David Burke, and Gayle Hunnicutt as Irene Adler.