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Overview

When Sherlock Holmes' devoted fans refused to allow Arthur Conan Doyle to kill their beloved sleuth, the author complied with 13 more stories. Originally published in The Strand magazine, the adventures include "The Empty House," "The Dancing Men," "The Six Napoleons," "The Norwood Builder," and "The Missing Three Quarter."

In one of his novels, author Doyle distressed readers by allowing both Sherlock Holmes and his adversary Professor Moriarty to die. Then in 1903, to please readers, he resuscitates the famous sleuth. The stories in this collection tell of his return.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781617204821
  • Publisher: Wilder Publications
  • Publication date: 12/1/2011
  • Pages: 264
  • Sales rank: 481,649
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a British novelist and historian best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. He also wrote historical novels, including "The White Company, " which he considered his favorite.

SIMON PREBBLES, a British-born performer of considerable talent and experience, has built a successful career that spans the Atlantic. As a stage and television actor he has played in everything from soaps to Shakespeare, but it is as a veteran narrator of some 275 audio book titles that he has made his mark since coming to the U.S. in 1990. "Audiofile" magazine has named him a 'Golden Voices' and in 2004 he was named "Narrator of the Year" by " Publishers Weekly. He lives with his wife in New York.

Biography

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.

Author biography courtesy of Penguin Group (USA).

    1. Also Known As:
      Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    1. Date of Birth:
      May 22, 1859
    2. Place of Birth:
      Edinburgh, Scotland
    1. Date of Death:
      July 7, 1930
    2. Place of Death:
      Crowborough, Sussex, England

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 29, 2011

    Unreadable. :( Why offer it????

    So scrambled that one can't read it. I know it was free, but what is the point???

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 29, 2011

    Not readable

    Virtually unreadable due to all the errors.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted September 25, 2011

    Okay....

    Very poor formatting and many, many errors made the story hard to understand. But, hey, what else can you expect from a free download? I would recommed buying one of the .99 cent versions, that way you dont have to deal with those pesky errors.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted February 6, 2011

    Horrible Digitalization

    This translation of Sherlock Holmes has passages that are virtualy unreadable. The first chapter or two are all right but after that certain passages get completely replaced by symbols. I suggest you buy one of the other copys of this book.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 17, 2010

    very poor formating

    The conversion to ebook was very poorly done. The text is nearly unreadable with multiple errors in each sentence. Download from Project Gutenberg and download it there. Their version is much cleaner.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 21, 2010

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    AN IMMENSELY TALENTED NARRATOR

    A previous collection of Doyle's stories, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, brought so much pleasure that I couldn't wait for more. Here they are in THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES stunningly presented by Simon Prebble.. If you've not yet heard a reading by Prebble, sit down and prepare to be well entertained.

    The British born Prebble, an experienced stage, television, and film, actor came to our country in 1990. Since then he has narrated some 350 audio books and has garnered every possible award (some numerous times) - A Golden Voice and Voices of the Century by AudioFile, 24 Earphone awards, 5 Listen Up awards...well, you get the idea, he's terrific.

    This collection of 13 Holmes stories was initially published during the years 1903 - 1904. It is the first collection to appear since Holmes supposedly died in "The Adventure of the Final Problem," and represents Doyle at his best. Among the 13 we find everything from The Adventure of the Empty House (which features the return of Holmes and his explanation of miraculously surviving a to the death struggle with Professor Moriarity) to The Adventure of the Second Stain.

    The redoubtable Watson is, of course, by Holmes's side throughout offering his memorable comments and questions.

    THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES is truly a classic and one that detective fiction aficionados will want to hear again and again.

    - Gail Cooke

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 18, 2012

    An excellent collection of Holmes tales. This has some of my fav

    An excellent collection of Holmes tales. This has some of my favorites. By the way, this version is very nice and isn't full of errors, as some of the other reviews seem to be for other versions, not this one

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 16, 2012

    Ok

    It's ok pretty interesting but can be a bit odd.

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  • Posted January 26, 2012

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    A welcome return for the legendary Sherlock Holmes.

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  • Posted September 5, 2011

    Horrible

    Horrible

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted May 4, 2011

    The Return of Sherlock Holmes

    Another fabulous novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Same characters, great new mysteries. Brilliant!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 30, 2006

    Yet more detective stories from the master

    Yet more excellent detective stories from the master. I'm not sure why, but Sherlock Holmes stories never seem to get old. They are just really fun. This book is another collection of short stories, including a baker's dozen of adventures. This is generally the same stuff as the other short story collections, so if you have read the others you will know if this interests you or not. Some of the stories do take a slightly different direction than in the other books. Specifically, sometimes Holmes doesn't exactly solve the crime in the way the client wants, and in one instance the client doesn't even ever get to know what really happened. This is slightly odd, but considering the need to vary things up, it worked out rather well. This book does include the first story where I was able to figure out what was going on before Sherlock Holmes explained it. So, I feel a little proud of that. Another fine addition to the collection.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 29, 2000

    OUTSTANDING!!!

    HOLMES SHARP SENSES ARE TRULY WELL DISPLAYED IN THIS BOOK OF STORIES THAT KEEPS YOU COMING BACK FOR MORE. I HAVE REALLY ENJOYED THIS BOOK.ANYONE COULD READ THEM TEN TIMES OVER AND JUST HAVE TO READ THEM AGAIN (JUST LIKE I HAVE DONE!) THAT MEANS I SHOULD GET ANOTHER SHERLOCK BOOK,HUH? (hee hee)

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