Book description
To mark the publication of Stop What You're Doing and Read
This!, a collection of essays celebrating reading, Vintage
Classics are releasing 12 limited edition themed ebook 'bundles', to
tempt readers to discover and rediscover great books.
THE ADVENTURES AND MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
A collection of 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.
THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE
Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with these
three mesmerising stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste
Dupin: 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Mystery of Marie Rogêt'
and 'The Purloined Letter'. Poe's short mysteries inspired the
creation of countless literary sleuths, among them Sherlock Holmes.
Today the unique Dupin stories still stand out as utterly engrossing page-turners.
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. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on 7 July 1930.
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, USA, in 1809. Poe, short
story writer, editor and critic, he is best known for his macabre
tales and as the progenitor of the detective story. He died in 1849,
in mysterious circumstances, at the age of forty.
