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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Mass market paperbound - 1984

by Arthur Conan Doyle


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Edited to reflect only the stories in THIS collection:This collection includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary Sherlock Holmes one of fiction's most popular creations. With his devoted Dr. Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue, and evil in such cases as "The Speckled Band", in which a terrified woman begs their help in solving the mystery surrounding her sister's death, or "A Scandal in Bohemia", which portrays a European king blackmailed by his mistress.

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, receiving a degree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first story, A Study in Scarlet. His detective, Sherlock Holmes, was modeled in part after Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. Conan Doyle may have been influenced also by his admiration for the neat plots of Gaboriau and for Poe’s detective, M. Dupin. After several rejections, the story was sold to a British publisher for £25, and thus was born the world’s best-known and most-loved fictional detective. Fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed. Once, wearying of Holmes, his creator killed him off, but was forced by popular demand to resurrect him. Sir Arthur—he had been knighted for this defense of the British cause in his The Great Boer War—became an ardent Spiritualist after the death of his son Kingsley, who had been wounded at the Somme in World War I. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in Sussex in 1930.

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  • Title Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • Author Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berkley Books
  • Date December 15, 1984
  • ISBN 9780425080894 / 0425080897
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 5 x 7 x 1 in (12.70 x 17.78 x 2.54 cm)
  • Ages 07 to 10 years
  • Grade levels 2 - 5
  • Reading level 550
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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