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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
UK: John Murray, 1927. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle First Edition John Murray 1927. Small neat name inscription to ffep. Contents are clean and unblemished throughout. Covers are VG with only minimal signs of wear. A bright copy. "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in 1927. The stories in this collection are among the last written by Doyle, and they feature Holmes in his later years. The cases he investigates are often more complex than those of earlier stories, and involve greater emotional depth and psychological complexity. The book also includes some of Doyle's most famous stories, such as "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client" and "The Adventure of the Three Gables".
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Brought to Book Ltd
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007327
- Title
- The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1927
- Weight
- 1.43 lbs
- Keywords
- The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle First Edition John Murray 1927
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