Arthur Conan Doyle : A Life in Letters

Doyle, Arthur Conan; Lellenberg, Jon L.; Stashower, Daniel; and Foley, Charles.

ISBN 10: 1594201358 / ISBN 13: 9781594201356

Published by Penguin Press, New York, 2007

About this Item

Edited by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower & Charles Foley. "This remarkable annotated collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's previously unpublished private correspondence offers unique insight into one of the world's most popular authors." [from publisher] Includes numerous black and white illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. A clean, unmarked copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Arthur Conan Doyle : A Life in Letters
• Publisher: Penguin Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594201358
• ISBN 13: 9781594201356
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First printing.
• Condition: Very Good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good +
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

About this title

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.