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A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four: Two Sherlock Holmes Novels in one book
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
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A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes)
two Sherlock Holmes novels in one book by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)Berkley Medallion Books #Z2838Paperback4.1 x 7 inches, 253 pages
This volume contains the first two novel-length Sherlock Holmes cases: A Study in Scarlet, which to a large extent made Conan Doyle's literary reputation, and The Sign of Four.------------------------------About the Author The life of Arthur Conan Doyle illustrates the excitement and diversity of the Victorian age unlike that of any other single figure of the period. At different points in his life he was a surgeon on a whaling ship; a GP; an apprentice eye-surgeon; an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate (twice); a multi-talented sportsman; one of the inventors of cross-country skiing in Switzerland; a formidable public speaker; a campaigner against miscarriages of justice; a military strategist; a writer in a range of forms; and the head of an extraordinary family. In his autobiography, he wrote: 'I have had a life which, for variety and romance, could, I think, hardly be exceeded.' He was not wrong.-------------------------Considered by many to be the birth of the modern detective novels, the exploits of master sleuth Sherlock Holmes were originally conceived and written by Scottish physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), although numerous other authors have penned further adventures of the iconic detective throughout the 1900s. Doyle's character has also inspired countless film and television adaptations.
two Sherlock Holmes novels in one book by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)Berkley Medallion Books #Z2838Paperback4.1 x 7 inches, 253 pages
This volume contains the first two novel-length Sherlock Holmes cases: A Study in Scarlet, which to a large extent made Conan Doyle's literary reputation, and The Sign of Four.------------------------------About the Author The life of Arthur Conan Doyle illustrates the excitement and diversity of the Victorian age unlike that of any other single figure of the period. At different points in his life he was a surgeon on a whaling ship; a GP; an apprentice eye-surgeon; an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate (twice); a multi-talented sportsman; one of the inventors of cross-country skiing in Switzerland; a formidable public speaker; a campaigner against miscarriages of justice; a military strategist; a writer in a range of forms; and the head of an extraordinary family. In his autobiography, he wrote: 'I have had a life which, for variety and romance, could, I think, hardly be exceeded.' He was not wrong.-------------------------Considered by many to be the birth of the modern detective novels, the exploits of master sleuth Sherlock Holmes were originally conceived and written by Scottish physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), although numerous other authors have penned further adventures of the iconic detective throughout the 1900s. Doyle's character has also inspired countless film and television adaptations.
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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- Title
- A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four
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- Doyle, Arthur Conan
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- Used - Good condition - book store rubber stamp on first page, some cover wear
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- 4.1 x 7 inches, 253 pages
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