Dive into the suspenseful world of Sherlock Holmes, the master detective the world has ever known Before you know it, you will find yourself wandering in Holmes and Watson’s world; it would just take a few pages and you will be at 221B Baker Street. You will join the duo in cracking mysteries and gathering clues, ranging from bloodstains and footprints, to cigarette ash and wedding rings, arriving at unusual and surprising conclusions. A huge hit with readers of all ages, these characters do not need much introduction. Appearing in print for the first time in A Study in Scarlet in 1887, Holmes’s popularity became widespread with the first series of short stories in the Strand magazine in 1891.
Product Details
Title:
THE COMPLETE NOVELS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
Author:
Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
Rupa Publications India
SKU:
BK0454234
EAN:
9789355201225
Number Of Pages:
544
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
Country Of Origin:
India
Release date:
5 November 2021
About Author
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in 1930. Within those years was crowded a variety of activity and creative work that made him an international figure and inspired the French to give him the epithet 'the good giant'. He was the nephew of 'Dickie Doyle' the artist, and was educated at Stonyhurst, and later studied medicine at Edinburgh University, where the methods of diagnosis of one of the professors provided the idea for the methods of deduction used by Sherlock Holmes.
He set up as a doctor at Southsea and it was while waiting for patients that he began to write. His growing success as an author enabled him to give up his practice and turn his attention to other subjects. He was a passionate advocate of many causes, ranging from divorce law reform and the Channel Tunnel to the issuing of inflatable life-jackets to sailors. He also campaigned to prove the innocence of individuals, and his work on the Edjalji case was instrumental in the introduction of the Court of Criminal Appeal. He was a volunteer physician in the Boer War and later in life became a convert to spiritualism.
His greatest achievement was, of course, his creation of Sherlock Holmes, who soon attained international status and constantly distracted him from his other work; at one time Conan Doyle killed him but was obliged by public protest to restore him to life. And in his creation of Dr Watson, Holmes's companion in adventure and chronicler, Conan Doyle produced not only a perfect foil for Holmes but also one of the most famous narrators in fiction. Penguin publish all the books about the great detective, A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes and The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes.
Photo by Walter Benington (RR Auction) [US Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
