The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

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). Klappentext From "A Scandal in Bohemia," in which Sherlock Holmes is famously outwitted by a woman, the captivating Irene Adler, to "The Five Orange Pips," in which the master detective is pitted against the Ku Klux Klan, to "The Final Problem," in which Holmes and his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, face each other in a showdown at the Reichenbach Falls, the stories that appear in "The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes bear witness to the flowering of author Arthur Conan Doyle's genius. "The plain fact," the celebrated mystery writer Vincent Starrett asserted, "is that Sherlock Holmes is still a more commanding figure in the world than most of the warriors and statesmen in whose present existence we are invited to believe." Zusammenfassung Collects together Sherlock Holmes' intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked strangers, ingenious heists, murderous plots and hidden jewels, which take the famous detective and his faithful sidekick Dr Watson from the streets of London and the English countryside to a chilling encounter at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland.

Product details

• Authors: Arthur C. Conan Doyle, Arthur C. Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Doyle Sir Arthur Conan
• Assisted by: David Peace (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.05.2009
• EAN: 9780099529675
• ISBN: 978-0-09-952967-5
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Sherlock Holmes; Sherlock Holmes; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Crime, Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary