Book description
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY P. D. JAMES
This book contains all the investigations and adventures of the
world's most popular detective, Sherlock Holmes. From 'The Adventure
of the Gloria Scott' to 'His Last Bow' we follow the
illustrious career of this quintessential British hero from his
university days to his final case. His efforts to uncover the truth
take him all over the world and into conflict with all manner of
devious criminals and dangerous villains, but thankfully his legendary
powers of deduction, and his faithful companion Dr Watson, are more
than up to the challenge.
Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh. He went to
Stonyhurst school and then studied medicine at Edinburgh University,
where one of his professors provided the model for his most famous
creation. He began publishing stories in 1879 and his first Sherlock
Holmes novel,
A Study in Scarlet
, was published in 1887. Holmes soon became an enormously popular figure
and Doyle went on to write many stories and novels about him. He also
published historical fiction, plays, essays and poems on a wide variety
of subjects. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on 7 July 1930.
