Sherlock: A Study in Scarlet TV Tie-In

Informationen zum Autor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student. Over his life he produced more than thirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide range of genres. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). Steven Moffat is best known for Press Gang , Coupling , Steven Spielberg’s movie Tintin , and for the last few years being lead writer and executive producer on Doctor Who and for co-creating and co-writing (with Mark Gatiss) and executive producing Sherlock . He has 5 BAFTAs, 2 Emmys and in 2015 was awarded an OBE for services to drama. Klappentext Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. He trained as a doctor at Edinburgh University and it was during this time that he witnessed methods of diagnosis that would later inspire Sherlock Holmes' astonishing methods of deduction. A Study in Scarlet was Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes novel, published in 1887, but it was The Sign of Four , published in 1890, that catapulted him to worldwide fame. From 1891 he wrote short stories about the immortal detective for The Strand magazine. He attempted to kill off Sherlock Holmes in 1893, in The Final Problem , but was forced to revive him after thousands of complaints. Conan Doyle died in 1930 having written two more Sherlock Holmes novels, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear , both serialized in The Strand , and a total of 56 short stories. Not only the master of popular crime fiction, he also wrote the best-selling science fiction novel, The Lost World from the Professor Challenger series. Zusammenfassung Introduces us to the world-famous characters of Sherlock Holmes, Dr Watson and Inspector Lestrade....

Product details

• Authors: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Assisted by: Steven Moffat (Introduction)
• Publisher: BBC Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2011
• EAN: 9781849903660
• ISBN: 978-1-84990-366-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Series: BBC BOOKS; BBC Books; Sherlock (BBC Books)
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; London, Utah, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Kriminalromane und Mystery: Privatdetektiv / Amateurdetektive, Central London, Englische Belletristik / Kriminalroman, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Kriminalroman, Thriller, London / Roman, Erzählung, England / Roman, Erzählung, Humor, detective short stories british hound of the baskervilles mystery novels; adventures sign of the four scandal in bohemia; the valley of fear his last bow moriarty anthony horowitz; edgar allan poe raymond chandler six napoleons; the adventure of the