The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated)

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sidney Paget (Illustrator)

Overview

This Top Five Classics edition of THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES includes:

• All 104 illustrations from the original Strand serials by Sidney Paget
• The original text of all 12 stories
• An introduction
• Author bio and bibliography

After Arthur Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes in the novel "A Study in Scarlet" in 1887, he wrote a series of twenty-four short mysteries featuring the detective and his colleague, Dr. Watson, in the pages of the Strand Magazine from 1891 to 1893.

THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES collects the first twelve of these tales—including "A Scandal in Bohemia" (which introduces Irene Adler), "The Red-Headed League," "The Five Orange Pips," and "The Speckled Band"—some of the greatest stories in the Sherlock Holmes canon.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013995260
Publisher:	Top Five Books
Publication date:	02/21/2012
Series:	Top Five Classics , #6
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) created the most famous detective in the history of English literature, Sherlock Holmes, with the novel "A Study in Scarlet" in 1887. Holmes would appear in four other novels and dozens of more short stories published in the pages of the Strand Magazine and collected in four compilations, including the first two, "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" and "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes." Conan Doyle also created a series of novels around the character of Professor George Challenger, the most enduring of which was "The Lost World."

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