Book description
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID PEACE
This volume collects together Sherlock Holmes's most memorable and
intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked
strangers, ingenious heists, murderous plots and hidden jewels, which
take the famous detective and his faithful sidekick Dr Watson from the
streets of London and the English countryside to a chilling encounter
at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh. He
studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write
stories while he was a student. Over his life he produced more than
thirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide
range of genres. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock
Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel A
Study in Scarlet
(1887). This was followed in 1889 by an historical novel, Micah Clarke.
In 1893 Conan Doyle published 'The Final Problem' in which he killed off
his famous detective so that he could turn his attention more towards
historical fiction. However Holmes was so popular that Conan Doyle
eventually relented and published
The Hound of the Baskervilles
in 1901. The events of the The
Hound of the Baskervilles
are set before those of 'The Final Problem' but in 1903 new Sherlock
Holmes stories began to appear that revealed that the detective had not
died after all. He was finally retired in 1927. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
died on 7 July 1930.
