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The unforgettable creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes is fiction's most famous and charming detective, renowned for his brilliant powers of deduction and perfect analysis of crime. With his faithful sidekick Dr. Watson, he solved the most complex and intriguing fictional crimes ever written. Immortalized by illustrators as a tall wiry man with deer stalker hat and smoking pipe, Sherlock Homes still remains the quintessential eccentric, enigmatic intellectual detective to millions of his aficionados. All the four novels of Sherlock Holmes A study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear are included in this volume, complete and unabridged.
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Doyle is also known as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or "Conan Doyle", suggesting that "Conan" is the part of the title of his compound name. He was baptized in St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. After baptism, he got the name "Arthur Ignatius Conan" and "Doyle" as his last name. Many other names like Michael Conan were regarded as his godfather. The indexes of the British Library and the Library of Congress treat "Doyle" alone as his last name. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan was a British essayist and doctor. He was the man behind the creation of the famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for 'A Study in Scarlet'. He had written four books and 56 brief tales about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are achievements in the field of thriller fiction. Doyle was a famous essayist. Other than Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and sci-fi anecdotes about Professor Challenger and hilarious tales about the Napoleonic fighter Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays.
