Arthur Conan Doyle

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Classic Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories Featuring Professor Moriarty and Dr. Watson. Sprachen: Englisch. 22,9 cm / 15,2 cm / 1,3 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 206 Seiten
EAN 9781617204807
Veröffentlicht November 2011
Verlag/Hersteller Wilder Publications
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Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is one of Arthur Conan Doyle's essential Sherlock Holmes collections, bringing together some of the most memorable cases of the great detective and Dr. Watson. First published in the 1890s, the volume includes investigations that display the full range of Holmes's deductive method: hidden family histories, strange disappearances, criminal deception, political intrigue, and the quiet domestic clues that reveal darker designs beneath respectable surfaces. The collection is especially significant for "The Final Problem," the story that introduced Professor Moriarty and brought Holmes to the edge of Reichenbach Falls. Alongside that landmark tale are such classics as "Silver Blaze," "The Yellow Face," "The Musgrave Ritual," and "The Greek Interpreter," stories that helped define detective fiction for generations. For readers of classic mystery, Victorian crime fiction, private investigator fiction, and traditional detective stories, Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes remains a central volume in the Sherlock Holmes canon.

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Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish physician, novelist, short-story writer, and creator of Sherlock Holmes, one of the most enduring figures in world literature. Born in Edinburgh in 1859, Doyle trained in medicine before turning increasingly to fiction, where his background in observation, diagnosis, and rational analysis helped shape the methods of his famous detective. Beginning with A Study in Scarlet and continuing through the Holmes short stories published in The Strand Magazine, Doyle transformed the detective story into one of the defining popular genres of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Although he wrote historical novels, adventure fiction, science fiction, plays, essays, and spiritualist works, Doyle's reputation rests most securely on the Sherlock Holmes stories, with Dr. Watson's narrative voice, Holmes's disciplined reasoning, and the atmospheric world of Victorian and Edwardian London becoming central to classic mystery fiction. His influence reaches across detective fiction, crime writing, private investigator fiction, puzzle mysteries, radio, film, television, and modern popular culture. Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes stands among the major Holmes collections, preserving stories that helped establish the conventions of the traditional detective tale.

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