Sherlock Holmes
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
15 October 1996
Summary
‘Am dining at Goldini’s Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver - S. H.’
The game’s afoot for the most famous amateur detective of all time in this collection of eight of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic tales.
‘The Speckled Band’, a Victorian melodrama in a country house, comes complete with murderous villain, murdered heroine, and a very unpleasant snake; ‘Silver Blaze’ t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857155013 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857155017 |
| Author: | Arthur Conan Doyle, Sidney Paget |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library Children's Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 1996 |
| Weight: | 540g |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 154mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS |
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About The Author
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student.
Over his life he produced more than thirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide range of genres. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). This was followed in 1889 by an historical novel, Micah Clarke. In 1893 Conan Doyle published ‘The Final Problem’ in which he killed off his famous detective so that he could turn his attention more towards historical fiction. However Holmes was so popular that Conan Doyle eventually relented and published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901. The events of the The Hound of the Baskervilles are set before those of ‘The Final Problem’ but in 1903 new Sherlock Holmes stories began to appear that revealed that the detective had not died after all. He was finally retired in 1927. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on 7 July 1930.
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