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From the rooms at 221B Baker Street, the mind that strikes fear into heart of London’s criminal fraternity turns its attention to some of the strangest and most intriguing cases ever to be set before the great Sherlock Holmes.
Adventures involving an illustrious client and a Sussex vampire; the problems of Thor Bridge and of the Lions Mane; puzzles concerning a creeping man and the three-gabled house; disappearances of secret plans and a lady of noble standing; all test the courage of Dr Watson and the intellect of the greatest detective of them all, Mr Sherlock Homes.
This final collection also features the story His Last Bow, the last outing of Holmes and Watson ...
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in 1930. His greatest achievement was his creation of Sherlock Holmes, who soon attained international status and constantly distracted him from his other work. And in his creation of Dr Watson, Holmes's companion in adventure and chronicler, Conan Doyle produced not only a perfect foil for Holmes but also one of the most famous narrators in fiction. Penguin publish all the books about the great detective, A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes and The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes.
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I find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day towards the end of March in the year 1892. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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Returning to Sherlock Holmes after many years was a pleasure. Conan Doyle's prose is deceptively simple, probably easier to read than write. During the various adventures in this double volume, the relationship between Holmes and Watson develops and deepens. At one point Holmes' calm self-assurance is suddenly penetrated when he believes that he has unnecessarily allowed the good doctor to be wounded. For his part, Watson's affection for his friend still permits him at times to be an amused recorder of the great man's foibles.
The mysteries are not - as is the case in modern detective fiction - susceptible to solution by the reader. The key discovery, for all the detective's self-proclaimed 'method of logical analysis,' is often unearthed in some abstruse publication Holmes recalls having read in the distant past, while his numerous cuttings books are also a prolific source of vital information.
His Last Bow was first publiished in 1917, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes a decade later. The attitudes of the times can read uncomfortably today: the majority of the villains are 'foreigners', often 'swarthy,' frequently 'bearded', occasionally 'negroid.' The heroines tend to be memorably beautiful: those from South America are invariably credited with 'tropical passions.'
If Conan Doyle is unconvincing with the dialogue he attributes to his thugs and hard men, invariably denizens of 'the East End', and if his portrayal of policemen, whether humble bobbies or Scotland Yard inspectors, as slow-witted, it can readily be accepted as ultimately part of the period charm of these stories. In Sherlock Holmes we have a trail-blazing character who memorably survives the decades.
The mysteries are not - as is the case in modern detective fiction - susceptible to solution by the reader. The key discovery, for all the detective's self-proclaimed 'method of logical analysis,' is often unearthed in some abstruse publication Holmes recalls having read in the distant past, while his numerous cuttings books are also a prolific source of vital information.
His Last Bow was first publiished in 1917, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes a decade later. The attitudes of the times can read uncomfortably today: the majority of the villains are 'foreigners', often 'swarthy,' frequently 'bearded', occasionally 'negroid.' The heroines tend to be memorably beautiful: those from South America are invariably credited with 'tropical passions.'
If Conan Doyle is unconvincing with the dialogue he attributes to his thugs and hard men, invariably denizens of 'the East End', and if his portrayal of policemen, whether humble bobbies or Scotland Yard inspectors, as slow-witted, it can readily be accepted as ultimately part of the period charm of these stories. In Sherlock Holmes we have a trail-blazing character who memorably survives the decades.
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