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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes & the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Paperback - 2001

by Arthur Conan Doyle; Introduction by Iain Pears; Notes by Ed Glinert

From his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes's brooding figure emerges into the foggy streets of Victorian London to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue, and evil. On the docks, in cocaine dens, and in the new suburbs, Holmes unravels case after case and Dr. Watson records his greatest strokes of brilliance. There is the delicate problem of "A Scandal in Bohemia," the bizarre case of "The Red-Headed League," and the deadly mystery of "The Speckled Band." This volume includes stories that appeared in the Strand magazine in 1892 and 1893 and culminates in "The Final Problem," as Holmes comes face to face with his nemesis.

Summary

From his rooms in Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes's brooding figure emerges into the foggy streets of Victorian London to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue, and evil.

 

From the publisher

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.

Iain Pears was born in 1955. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he has worked as a journalist, an art historian, and a television consultant in England, France, Italy, and the United States. He is the author of seven highly praised detective novels, a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial, and historical subjects, as well as the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost He lives in Oxford, England.

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  • Title The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes & the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
  • Author Arthur Conan Doyle; Introduction by Iain Pears; Notes by Ed Glinert
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition International Ed
  • Pages 576
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, London
  • Date 2001-12-31
  • Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780140437713 / 0140437711
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.79 x 5.1 x 0.98 in (19.79 x 12.95 x 2.49 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Theometrics: Secular
  • Library of Congress subjects Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character), Private investigators - England
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001279197
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh and took a degree in medicine at Edinburgh University before becoming a doctor in Southsea. He began writing detective stories to supplement his income and 'A Study in Scarlet' (1887) introduced his finest creation, the hawk-eyed detective, Sherlock Holmes.

Iain Pears is the is the best-selling author of six detective novels, including An Instance of the Finger Post.

Ed Glinert is a journalist and writer.

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