Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters

Jon L. Lellenberg,Daniel Stashower,Charles Foley

ISBN 10: 1594201358 / ISBN 13: 9781594201356

Published by Penguin Press November 2007, 2007

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there are two small tears at front and rear cover goes to spine, remainder mark on bottom edge.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
• Publisher: Penguin Press November 2007
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594201358
• ISBN 13: 9781594201356
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Lit Crit::Author

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Synopsis

An annotated collection of the esteemed author's private correspondence includes letters shared with his mother that offers insight into his endless search for fulfillment and success outside of the Sherlock Holmes tales, his decision to leave his medical profession to write full time, and his forays into spiritualism. 50,000 first printing.

About the Author

The authors, Daniel Stashower, Jon Lellenberg, and Charles Foley, are premier scholars and experts on both Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes. Daniel Stashower, most recently the author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl, is an award-winning mystery novelist, an Edgar Award winner and the recipient of the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship in Detective and Crime Fiction Writing. He is also the author of Teller of Tales, a widely praised biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Jon Lellenberg is the U.S agent for the Conan Doyle estate and coeditor of a number of anthologies of new Sherlock Holmes stories by mystery writers, as well as the historian of the Baker Street Irregulars. Charles Foley is the great-nephew of Arthur Conan Doyle and great-grandson of Mary Foley Doyle, as well as the present executor of the Conan Doyle Estate.