The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Jonathan Cranfield (Editor)

Overview

The first scholarly edition of the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes including a detailed introduction, an essay on the text, a textual apparatus and explanatory notes

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474477529
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	03/24/2023
Series:	The Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

"An exceptionally talented storyteller, Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in May 1859. Doyle began writing while studying at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, which he joined in 1876. Doyle graduated in 1881 and was employed as a surgeon on the steamer Mayumba on its voyage to the West African coast.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Pointing out the social injustices, Holmes offers a new and just approach in a world which is unfair. Sherlock Holmes, the most well-known fictional detective, has been listed with Guinness World Records as the “most portrayed movie character” in history.
Doyle died of a heart attack in July 1930, aged seventy-one."

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

General Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgementsChronology of the Life of Arthur Conan Doyle

IntroductionThe Author Composition The Stories Reception

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Silver Blaze The Yellow Face The Stockbroker’s Clerk The ‘Gloria Scott’ The Musgrave Ritual The Reigate Squares The Crooked Man The Resident Patient The Greek Intepreter The Naval Treaty The Final Problem

Appendices 1. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box 2. Extract from ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ An Essay on the Text Apparatus Abbreviations used in the Apparatus Emendations and Variations

Explanatory Notes

Editorial Reviews

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes not only features the great detective's earliest known cases, it also introduces his older and smarter brother Mycroft and brings us face to face with that Napoleon of Crime, the chilling Professor Moriarty. This is, in short, the volume through which Conan Doyle dramatically enlarges the Holmesian universe—and just one reason why any serious Sherlockian will want a copy of these stories in this handsome Edinburgh edition, superbly introduced and crisply annotated by Jonathan Cranfield.

Michael Dirda

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

From the Publisher

Sherlock Holmes is the very foundation stone of the edifice that is crime fiction.”

Times (London)