The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, KStJ, DL (Author); John Dickson Carr

ISBN 10: 0880298596 / ISBN 13: 9780880298599

Published by Barnes & Noble Books/Barnes & Noble, Inc., New York, 1992

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338 pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy and dust jacket with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Dust jacket shows minimal, minor or light wear around edges. Synopsis: Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publication in 1887. He was the creation of Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based consulting detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning and forensic skills to solve difficult cases. Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that feature Holmes. The first story, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign of the Four, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891; further series of short stories and two serialised novels appeared until 1927. The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1907, with a final case in 1914. All but four stories are narrated by Holmes' friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson; two are narrated by Holmes himself, this including the Blanched Soldier, and two others are written in the third person. In two stories (The Musgrave Ritual and The Adventure of the Gloria Scott), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, whereas Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. Conan Doyle said that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing large conclusions from the smallest observations.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books/Barnes & Noble, Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0880298596
• ISBN 13: 9780880298599
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Madkat Studio (Jacket Design & Illustration)
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction-Mystery, Mysterious Fiction & Novel
  • Fiction-Fictional Novel, Literary Fiction & Novel
  • Fiction-Thriller, Suspense

About this title

Synopsis

A collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures based on unsolved cases from the original stories.

From the Inside Flap

From the son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of America's greatest mystery writers, John Dickson Carr, comes twelve riveting tales based on incidents or elements of the unsolved cases of Sherlock Holmes. The plots are all new, with painstaking attention to the mood, tone, and detail of the original stories. Here is a fascinating volume of mysteries for new Sherlock fans, as well as for those who have read all the classics and crave more!