The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sherlock Holmes v.3

Informationen zum Autor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh where he qualified as a doctor, but it was his writing which brought him fame, with the creation of Sherlock Holmes, the first scientific detective. He was also a convert to spiritualism and a social reformer who used his investigative skills to prove the innocence of individuals. Klappentext Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) started to write as a doctor, whilst waiting for patients to arrive. Sherlock Holmes first appeared in A Study in Scarlet (1887). The Holmes stories soon attracted such a following that Conan Doyle felt the character overshadowed his other work. In The Final Problem (1893) Conan Doyle killed him off, but was obliged by public demand to restore the detective to life. Zusammenfassung A collection of the great consulting detective Sherlock Holmes' cases. It lets us encounter some of his most famous and devilishly difficult problems, including "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Speckled Band", "The Red-Headed League", "The Blue Carbuncle", "The Five Orange Pips" and "The Man with the Twisted Lip".

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur C Doyle, Arthur C. Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2011
• EAN: 9780241952900
• ISBN: 978-0-241-95290-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Sherlock Holmes; Sherlock Holmes
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction