The Sign of Four - Sherlock Holmes v.2

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 When a beautiful young woman is sent a letter inviting her to a sinister assignation, she immediately seeks the advice of the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. For this is not the first mysterious item Mary Marston has received in the post. Every year for the last six years an anonymous benefactor has sent her a large lustrous pearl.

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Perhaps the greatest of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries is this: that when we talk of him we invariably fall into the fancy of his existence T. S. Eliot

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• Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur C Doyle, Arthur C. Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan (Sir) Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2011
• EAN: 9780241952962
• ISBN: 978-0-241-95296-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 113 mm x 181 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Sherlock Holmes; The Penguin Sherlock Holmes Collection; Sherlock Holmes; The Penguin Sherlock Holmes Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Classics, Classic crime, Classic fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction