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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. His detective, Sherlock Holmes, was modeled in part after Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. Conan Doyle may have been influenced also by his admiration for the neat plots of Gaboriau and for Poe’s detective, M. Dupin. After several rejections, the story was sold 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. Once, wearying of Holmes, his creator killed him off, but was forced by popular demand to resurrect him. Sir Arthur—he had been knighted for this defense 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.
Iain Pears was born in 1955. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he has worked as a journalist, an art historian, and a television consultant in England, France, Italy, and the United States. He is the author of seven highly praised detective novels, a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial, and historical subjects, as well as the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost He lives in Oxford, England.
Once, wearying of Holmes, his creator killed him off, but was forced by popular demand to resurrect him. Sir Arthur -- he had been knighted for this defense 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.
Author biography courtesy of Penguin Group (USA).
| Biographical Note | ||
| Introduction | ||
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | 1 | |
| The Adventure of Scandal in Bohemia | 3 | |
| The Adventure of the Red-Headed League | 25 | |
| The Adventure of a Case of Identity | 47 | |
| The Adventure of the Boscombe Valley Mystery | 63 | |
| The Adventure of the Five Orange Pips | 85 | |
| The Adventure of the Man with Twisted Lip | 103 | |
| The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle | 125 | |
| The Adventure of the Speckled Band | 144 | |
| The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb | 167 | |
| The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor | 187 | |
| The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet | 207 | |
| The Adventure of the Copper Beeches | 229 | |
| The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes | 253 | |
| Silver Blaze | 255 | |
| The Cardboard Box | 278 | |
| The Yellow Face | 297 | |
| The Stockbroker's Clerk | 314 | |
| The 'Gloria Scott' | 331 | |
| The Musgrave Ritual | 349 | |
| The Reigate Squires | 366 | |
| The Crooked Man | 384 | |
| The Resident Patient | 400 | |
| The Greek Interpreter | 416 | |
| The Naval Treaty | 433 | |
| The Final Problem | 464 | |
| Note on the Text | 481 |
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Posted Thu Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2013
Was over all a good book and i liked it but it had alot of big wa
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Posted Sat May 09 00:00:00 EDT 2009
best for anyone
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Posted Fri Jan 20 00:00:00 EST 2006
¿Sherlock, watch out,¿ someone shouted to me boom! ¿what happened Pudwill,¿ said Sherlock . My book was he adventures of Sherlock holmes and the author was Sir Canon Author Doyle. The Setting was old London and Germany. Sherlock has five mysteries I¿m going to tell you about one. The third mystery was about the secret factory. He found a note in his mailbox . and the rest is up to you. My opinion was it was to hard and I liked it I wanted to read it, it made it a challenge for me because I¿m not very good with words. The book was very interesting and Sherlock is very smart. He uses a lot of dialog. My recommendation is that the grade level was 8 grade because it is very challenging. It is very challenging because it gives very tough words. I liked the book a lot and it was very interesting.
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Posted Mon Apr 11 00:00:00 EDT 2005
This book was great!!! I don't love mystery that much but this book was wonderful. What great mysteries!!!! If you want a good book to read read this one!!!
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Posted Fri Oct 08 00:00:00 EDT 2004
this book is a classic and it's a mystery book!
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