It was its author's personal choice, coming at the top of a list of 12 as "the grim snake story," "an echo of which" Doyle said could be found "in all parts of the world." As if to confirm this, one of the characters in Paul Scott's Raj Quartet (1975) remembers that it was her favorite as a child: "I used to read it by torchlight under the bedclothes at the school Sarah and I went to at home. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on July 7, 1930.Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories are perennially popular, and "The Speckled Band" is among the best. The events of the The Hound of the Baskervilles are set before those of The Final Problem but in 1903 new Sherlock Holmes stories began to appear that revealed that the detective had not died after all. However Holmes was so popular that Conan Doyle eventually relented and published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901. In 1893 Conan Doyle published The Final Problem in which he killed off his famous detective so that he could turn his attention more towards historical fiction. This was followed in 1889 by an historical novel, Micah Clarke. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). Over his life he produced more than thirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide range of genres. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on in Edinburgh. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmes s famous "seven percent solution" and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery.Īlso included are Holmes s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the chilling " The Adventure of the Speckled Band," the baffling riddle of "The Musgrave Ritual," and the ingeniously plotted "The Five Orange Pips," tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle s classic hero-a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes s adventures in crime! Since his first appearance in Beeton s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.
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