Sherlock

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Overview

The hit BBC series Sherlock has introduced a whole new generation of fans to Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary detective. In this unique collection, Sherlock co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have selected their all-time favorite Sherlock Holmes adventures.Each of these nineteen tales, from Sherlock’s first appearance in A Study in Scarlet to the late classic The Dying Detective, is a potent mix of murder, suspense, cryptic clues, red herrings, and revenge—a ground-breaking combination of forensic science and bold storytelling. Sherlock Holmes established new rules for what a fictional hero could be, and provided a template for detective stories we still follow today.This beautifully designed collection is the perfect introduction to the world of Sherlock Holmes and the ultimate gift for fans of the show it inspired.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781681772714
Publisher:	Pegasus Books
Publication date:	10/04/2016
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	560
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in 1930.He set up as a doctor at Southsea and it was while waiting for patients that he began to write. His growing success as an author enabled him to give up his practice and turn his attention to other subjects.His greatest achievement was his creation of Sherlock Holmes, who soon attained international status and constantly distracted him from his other work; at one time Conan Doyle killed him but was obliged by public protest to restore him to life. And in his creation of Dr. Watson, Holmes's companion in adventure and chronicler, Conan Doyle produced not only a perfect foil for Holmes but also one of the most famous narrators in fiction.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in 1930. He set up as a doctor at Southsea and it was while waiting for patients that he began to write. His growing success as an author enabled him to give up his practice and turn his attention to other subjects. His greatest achievement was his creation of Sherlock Holmes, who soon attained international status and constantly distracted him from his other work; at one time Conan Doyle killed him but was obliged by public protest to restore him to life. And in his creation of Dr. Watson, Holmes's companion in adventure and chronicler, Conan Doyle produced not only a perfect foil for Holmes but also one of the most famous narrators in fiction.

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

A Study in Scarlet 1

The Sign of Four 89

A Scandal in Bohemia 171

The Red-Headed League 189

A Case of Identity 207

The Man with the Twisted Lip 221

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle 239

The Adventure of the Speckled Band 255

Silver Blaze 275

The Yellow Face 295

The Musgrave Ritual 309

The Greek Interpreter 323

The Final Problem 337

The Hound of the Baskervilles 351

The Empty House 469

Charles Augustus Milverton 485

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans 499

The Adventure of the Devil's Foot 521

The Adventure of the Dying Detective 541

Editorial Reviews

08/08/2016
Gatiss and Moffat, the cocreators of the hit BBC series Sherlock, have selected their 19 favorite Sherlock Holmes stories for this tie-in collection, ranging from the two early novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four, to the late tales “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot” and “The Adventure of the Dying Detective.” The editors supply no general introduction, only brief introductions to each story (“One of Doyle’s dips into gothic horror. Cornwall, madness, Darkest Africa, love, revenge. Lovely”). Of course, there are plenty of Sherlock Holmes collections available, but this one stands out thanks to its jacket depicting actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in their respective roles as Holmes and Watson. The volume is obviously targeted at the many, mostly young fans of the TV show who may have never read Conan Doyle’s original texts. It will have fulfilled its purpose admirably if it succeeds in introducing a new generation to one of the world’s greatest authors of popular fiction. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

2016-07-20
Given the free-wheeling approach the television series Sherlock takes to the Sacred Writings, you’d expect a selection of the Holmes stories chosen and introduced by producers Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat to be equally offbeat. But you’d be wrong.The selection itself is unexceptionable: three of the four Holmes novels—A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, and The Hound of the Baskervilles—and 16 short stories—six from The Adventures, five from the Memoirs, two from The Return, and three from His Last Bow. With a few exceptions like “The Yellow Face” and “The Dying Detective,” the stories are exactly the ones most readers would have chosen themselves, from classics (“The Red-Headed League,” “The Man with the Twisted Lip,” “Silver Blaze”) to overanthologized lesser cases (“The Musgrave Ritual,” “Charles Augustus Milverton,” “The Dying Detective”). Holmes dies in “The Final Problem” and duly returns to life in “The Empty House.” And surely no one would cavil at the inclusion, presumably for very different reasons, of “A Scandal in Bohemia,” “A Case of Identity,” “The Blue Carbuncle,” “The Speckled Band,” “The Greek Interpreter,” and “The Bruce-Partington Plans.” What sets this collection apart from the authoritative complete Holmes published by Oxford and Norton is the unfulfilled promise of an introduction that will link the stories to a TV series so inventive that it amounts to a Holmes remix. In lieu of such an introduction, however, the editors offer only tantalizingly brief snippets commenting on each story. (The complete introduction to “The Devil’s Foot” reads: “One of Doyle’s dips into gothic horror. Cornwall, madness, Darkest Africa, love, revenge. Lovely.”)Yes, it’s lovely, but since it’s neither complete nor very interestingly edited, there’s no reason to prefer this volume to any of the Holmes collections out there already. Even the print is tiny.

Kirkus Review