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Informationen zum Autor Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After a rigorous Jesuit education! at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire! he trained to be a doctor at Edinburgh University. Eventually he set up in medical practice in Southsea and! during the quiet periods between patients! he turned his hand to writing. Although Sherlock Holmes was Doyle's greatest creation! he believed his historical novels such as Micah Clarke and The White Company were of greater literary quality. He also created the irascible Professor Challenger in The Lost World and the comic French soldier Brigadier Gerard who appeared in a series of short stories. Doyle was knighted in 1902. Towards the end of his life he devoted much of his time to his belief in Spiritualism! using his writings as a means of providing funds to support his activities in this field. He died in 1930. Klappentext Sherlock Holmes is the greatest fictional detective in the world. The hero of 56 short stories and four novels! he is so convincing that letters still arrive at 221b Baker Street seeking his help! and when it was thought that he had died in his clash with the evil Professor Moriarty ('the Napoleon of Crime') young men in London wore black armbands. This handsome edition! bound in real cloth! with head and tail bands! a ribbon marker! top edge gilt and a gold-blocked jacket! presents all of the short stories! many illustrated by Sidney Paget! who prepared these drawings for the original publication in The Strand Magazine. It also contains the four novels: A Study in Scarlet in which Holmes and Dr Watson first meet! The Sign of the Four! The Valley of Fear and the chilling masterpiece The Hound of the Baskervilles. Zusammenfassung Sherlock Holmes is the greatest fictional detective in the world. He is the hero of 56 short stories and four novels. This title presents the short stories of Holmes. It also contains the four novels: "A Study in Scarlet"! "The Sign of the Four"! "The Valley of Fear" and "The Hound of the Baskervilles". ...
