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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes Mysteries (Penguin))
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes Mysteries (Penguin)) Mass_market - 1986

by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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He's rude, arrogant, cold, unfriendly, and easily bored. But nobody minds, because Sherlock Holmes is a genius at solving mysteries. This collection includes unabridged tales of blackmail, lost fortunes, and, of course, murder.

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  • Title The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes Mysteries (Penguin))
  • Author Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
  • Binding mass_market
  • Edition 36th Printing
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berkley Books, New York NY
  • Date August 15, 1986
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0425098389.G
  • ISBN 9780425098387 / 0425098389
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.9 in (17.53 x 10.67 x 2.29 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1020
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Topical: Home School
  • Library of Congress subjects Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character), Private investigators - England
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

The most recognized detective in all of literature, Sherlock Holmes emerged on the crime scene in A Study in Scarlet in 1887. His deductive reasoning, keen insight, skillful observations, and investigative tactics became the tools necessary to solve riveting and intriguing crimes that continue to delight generations of readers. Discover or rediscover the joys of these fascinating mysteries. Now Signet Classics, the Chamberlain Bros. edition presents Sherlock Holmes in this compelling collection, which contains such classics as:
  • A Scandal in Bohemia
  • The Red-Headed League
  • The Boscombe Valley Mystery
  • The Adventure of the Dancing Men
  • The Five Orange Pips
  • The Man with the Twisted Lip
  • The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
  • The Adventure of the Speckled Band
  • The Adventure of the Empty House
  • The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
  • The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
  • The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
And ten others!


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From the publisher

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, receiving a degree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first story, A Study in Scarlet. His detective, Sherlock Holmes, was modeled in part after Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. Conan Doyle may have been influenced also by his admiration for the neat plots of Gaboriau and for Poe’s detective, M. Dupin. After several rejections, the story was sold to a British publisher for £25, and thus was born the world’s best-known and most-loved fictional detective. Fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed. Once, wearying of Holmes, his creator killed him off, but was forced by popular demand to resurrect him. Sir Arthur—he had been knighted for this defense of the British cause in his The Great Boer War—became an ardent Spiritualist after the death of his son Kingsley, who had been wounded at the Somme in World War I. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in Sussex in 1930.

From the rear cover

This is a series of short stories about a detective Sherlock Holmes, and his assistant, Dr. Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including 'The Red-Headed League, ' 'The Blue Carbuncle, ' and 'The Speckled Band.'

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About the author

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, receiving a degree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first story, A Study in Scarlet. His detective, Sherlock Holmes, was modeled in part after Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. Conan Doyle may have been influenced also by his admiration for the neat plots of Gaboriau and for Poe's detective, M. Dupin. After several rejections, the story was sold to a British publisher for 25, and thus was born the world's best-known and most-loved fictional detective. Fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed. Once, wearying of Holmes, his creator killed him off, but was forced by popular demand to resurrect him. Sir Arthur--he had been knighted for this defense of the British cause in his The Great Boer War--became an ardent Spiritualist after the death of his son Kingsley, who had been wounded at the Somme in World War I. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in Sussex in 1930.

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