Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Name: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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ISBN: 9780192835086

ISBN-10: 0192835084

ISBN-13: 9780192835086

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Lancelyn Green, Richard Lancelyn Green

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and 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'. Although Holmes gained a reputation for infallibility, Conan Doyle showed his own realism and feminism by having the great detective defeated by Irene Adler - the woman - in the very first story, `A Scandal in Bohemia'. The editor of this volume, Richard Lancelyn Green is editor of The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes and The…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/22/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

E. W. Hornung (1866-1921) created Raffles the gentleman burglar, hero of <I>The Amateur Cracksman</I> (1899) and <I>Mr. Justice Raffles</I> (1909) and wrote many other adventure stories published in magazines and in book form. He married Arthur Conan Doyle's sister Constance, traveled widely, and played cricket. Richard Lancelyn Green is an authority on the life and work of Arthur Conan Doyle and editor of several volumes of his work.