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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(Penguin Clothbound Classics)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892.
This gripping collection, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, includes many of the famous cases, and strokes of brilliance, that made the legendary Sherlock Holmes one of fiction’s most popular creations. With his devoted secretary, Dr. Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke-filled rooms on Baker Street to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue, and evil. In such cases as The Speckled Band, in which a terrified woman begs Holmes and Watson’s help in solving the mystery surrounding her sister’s death. As well as, A Scandal in Bohemia, which portrays a European king blackmailed by his mistress. A spine-tingling treat for anyone who loves a classic whodunit, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes shows the inimitable detective at his best.
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About Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, receiving a degree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first story, A Study in Scarlet. Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, was in part the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. Émile Gaboriau, pioneer of detective fiction, and Edgar Allan Poe, specifically his detective character, C. Auguste Dupin, were influential to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as he admired their neat plots and characterisation. After several rejections, he sold the story to a British publisher for £25, and thus was born the world’s best-known and most-loved fictional detective.
Fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed. Holmes was killed off but Conan Doyle was forced, by popular demand, to resurrect him. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—he was knighted for this defence of the British cause in his The Great Boer War—became an ardent spiritualist after the death of his son Kingsley, who had been wounded at the Somme in World War I. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in Sussex in 1930.
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