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Author
1859–1930
Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in 1930. He studied medicine and worked as a doctor, and from that training he drew the method of his most famous character: notice the details, rule out the impossible and reach a conclusion that seems like magic to everyone else.
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson first appeared in A Study in Scarlet, in 1887. The stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, from 1892, turned the detective into a phenomenon, and The Hound of the Baskervilles, from 1902, took him out onto the English moors in what many consider his finest case.
Conan Doyle also wrote historical and adventure novels, but readers keep coming back to Baker Street for the pleasure of watching Holmes think, and for the warm, astonished voice of Watson, who tells each case as if he were discovering it alongside us.
Arthur Conan Doyle
A former army doctor new to London needs a flatmate and ends up living with a detective as odd as he is brilliant. Together they take on a baffling murder that puts Sherlock Holmes's powers of deduction to the test. This is where a legendary partnership begins, told briskly and steeped in Victorian atmosphere.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
An old family legend tells of a hellish hound haunting the Baskerville line, and Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are called in to get to the bottom of it. On the fog-bound moors of Dartmoor, cold deduction faces off against superstition and dread. Moody, eerie and hard to put down, it is perhaps Holmes's most famous case.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Twelve compact cases told by Dr. Watson, in which Sherlock Holmes untangles puzzles that baffle Victorian London's official investigators. Each story is a neat little engine of deduction: anxious visitors, tiny clues and a detective who uses sharp reasoning to set wrongs right. Perfect to savour one at a time, like opening a series of well-locked boxes.
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