The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Overview

After killing off the brainy detective in earlier stories, the renowned mystery writer Doyle brings Sherlock Holmes back to life in this collection of stories published in 1903. Using his famed powers of deduction, Holmes solves baffling cases including "the Empty House, "the Six Napoleons", "the Golden Prince-Nez", and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781931102469
Publisher:	Topics Entertainment
Publication date:	09/28/2001
Series:	Sherlock Holmes Mystery Series
Edition description:	8 Cassettes, 11 Hour Deluxe Edition
Product dimensions:	9.70(w) x 9.58(h) x 1.38(d)

About the Author

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a writer and physician most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, the first scientific detective, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Before becoming a writer, he attended the University of Edinburgh to train as a physician, and it was from his teacher, Joseph Bell, that he learned much of what would inspire Holmes’s skills of deduction. He also wrote science fiction stories, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry, and nonfiction. After his son Kingsley died in the first World War, he became a convert to spiritualism and a social reformer who used his investigative skills to prove the innocence of individuals.

Geoffrey Howard (a.k.a. Ralph Cosham) (1936–2014) was a British journalist who changed careers to become a narrator and screen and stage actor. He performed in more than one hundred professional theatrical roles. His audiobook narrations were named “Audio Best of the Year” by Publishers Weekly, and he won seven AudioFile Earphones Awards, and in 2013 he won the coveted Audie Award for Best Mystery Narration for his reading of Louise Penny’s The Beautiful Mystery.

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

IntroductionNote on the TextSelect BibliographyThe Return of Sherlock HolmesThe Empty HouseThe Norwood BuilderThe Dancing MenThe Solitary CyclistThe Priory SchoolBlack PeterCharles Augustus MilvertonThe Six NapoleonsThe Three StudentsThe Golden Pince-NezThe Missing Three-QuarterThe Abbey GrangeThe Second StainExplanatory Notes

Editorial Reviews

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

Times (London)

Every writer owes something to Holmes.”

T. S. Eliot