Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on July 7, 1930.Study in Scarlet Chapter 1 Mr. The events of the The Hound of the Baskervilles are set before those of 'The Final Problem' but in 1903 new Sherlock Holmes stories began to appear that revealed that the detective had not died after all. However Holmes was so popular that Conan Doyle eventually relented and published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901. In 1893 Conan Doyle published 'The Final Problem' in which he killed off his famous detective so that he could turn his attention more towards historical fiction.

This was followed in 1889 by an historical novel, Micah Clarke. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). Over his life he produced more than thirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide range of genres. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on in Edinburgh. Watson has faithfully recorded Holmess feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the thrilling The Adventure of the Red Circle and the twelve baffling adventures from The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes.Ĭonan Doyles incomparable tales bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where for more than forty years Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time. The Valley of Fear matches Holmes against his archenemy, the master of imaginative crime, Professor Moriarty. Volume II begins with The Hound of the Baskervilles, a haunting novel of murder on eerie Grimpen Moor, which has rightly earned its reputation as the finest murder mystery ever written. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyles classic hero-a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmess adventures in crime! Since his first appearance in Beetons Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.

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