Study In Scarlet & The Sign Of The Four - Hardcover

Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1784288225 ISBN 13: 9781784288228

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

The first two tales featuring Holmes and Watson see them tackling a convoluted murder case concerning a decades-old vendetta in ‘A Study in Scarlet†and come to the aid of a woman troubled by an unexplained recurring gift from an anonymous donor in ‘The Sign of the Fourâ€.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784288225
• ISBN 13: 9781784288228
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256