The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

ISBN 10: 0752903896 / ISBN 13: 9780752903897

Edité par Leopard Books, 1996

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no dj just a real nice clean and tight book that may have been read.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
• Éditeur: Leopard Books
• Date de parution: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0752903896
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780752903897
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Illus. By Sidney Paget
• État de l'article: Fine

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Biographie de l'auteur

Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland into an Irish family. He trained as a doctor, gaining his medical degree from Edinburgh University in 1881. He worked as a surgeon on a whaling boat and also as a medical officer on a steamer travelling between Liverpool and West Africa. He then settled in Portsmouth on the English south coast and divided his time between medicine and writing. He is most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in 'A Study of Scarlet', published in 'Beeton's Christmas Annual' in 1887. This later led to a contract writing more Sherlock Holmes stories for the Strand magazine. It was in these early stories that he developed the character of Sherlock Holmes. It was a character that fascinated the reading public and he soon became one of the best-loved fictional characters. In 1893, Conan Doyle killed off Holmes, hoping to concentrate on more serious writing. A public outcry later made him resurrect Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle also wrote a number of other novels, including 'The Lost World' and various non-fictional works. Arthur Conan Doyle died on 7 July 1930.