His Last Bow

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Overview

A Joss Recording

One hundred years old and still going strong! When Conan Doyle created the immortal Sherlock Holmes, he set the standard for all who followed. No one else has ever quite reached it.

HIS LAST BOW is a collection of Sherlock Holmes mysteries and includes: "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge," "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box," "The Adventure of the Red Circle," "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans," "The Adventure of the Dying Detective," "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax," "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" and "His Last Bow."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780755334438
Publisher:	Headline
Publication date:	12/18/2006
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh on 22 May 1859, one of seven children who survived to adulthood. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he started to write short stories. His most famous character, Sherlock Holmes, first appeared in A Study in Scarlet in 1887.

After the death of his first wife, Louise Hawkins, with whom he had a son and a daughter, he went on to marry Jean Leckie in 1907 and they had two sons and a daughter. He died in 1930.

Date of Birth:

May 22, 1859

Date of Death:

July 7, 1930

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Crowborough, Sussex, England

Education:

Edinburgh University, B.M., 1881; M.D., 1885

Table of Contents

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Arthur Conan Doyle
HIS LAST BOW
The Adventure of Wistaria Lodge
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
The Adventure of the Devil's Foo
The Adventure of the Red Circle
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
The Adventure of the Dying Detective
His Last Bow
Explanatory Notes

Editorial Reviews

He is unique in simultaneously bringing down the curtain on an era and raising one on another, ushering in a genre of writing that... has never been surpassed. His own life, as footballer... eye surgeon, champion of injustice and investigator into the paranormal, is the stuff of legend. Personally, I would walk a mile in tight boots to read his letters to the milkman—Stephen Fry, The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection

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