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2 Formats: Library CD
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2 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9798894866208
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ISBN: 9798228503366
| Runtime: | 10.28 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction/Mystery & Detective |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
‘It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’
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’.
Catherine Wynne’s introduction reappraises the stories by looking at Conan Doyle’s medical background and its influence on the creation of the famous detective.
Author
Author Bio: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a writer and physician most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, the first scientific detective, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Before becoming a writer, he attended the University of Edinburgh to train as a physician, and it was from his teacher, Joseph Bell, that he learned much of what would inspire Holmes’s skills of deduction. He also wrote science fiction stories, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry, and nonfiction. After his son Kingsley died in the first World War, he became a convert to spiritualism and a social reformer who used his investigative skills to prove the innocence of individuals.
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| Available Formats : | Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Mystery & Detective |
| Runtime: | 10.28 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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