Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle, John Michael
ISBN-13: 9780595014675, ISBN-10: 0595014674
Format: Paperback
Publisher: New Millennium Library
Date Published: March 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was both a doctor and a believer in spirits, which may partly explain why his Sherlock Holmes is one of literature's most beloved detectives: Holmes always approaches his cases with the gentility and logic of a scientist, but the stories are suffused with an aura of the supernatural. Narrated by devoted assistant Dr. John H. Watson, Holmes's adventures were so addictive that fans protested the master deducer's "death" in 1893 and Doyle had to resurrect him.
I was not surprised. Indeed my only wonder was that he had not already been mixed up in this extraordinary case which was the one topic of conversation through the length and breadth of England.
Acknowledgements | ||
General Editor's Preface to the Series | ||
Introduction | ||
Note on the Text | ||
Select Bibliography | ||
A Chronology of Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
Silver Blaze | 3 | |
The Cardboard Box | 30 | |
The Yellow Face | 53 | |
The Stockbroker's Clerk | 73 | |
The 'Gloria Scott' | 92 | |
The Musgrave Ritual | 113 | |
The Reigate Squire | 134 | |
The Crooked Man | 155 | |
The Resident Patient | 174 | |
The Greek Interpreter | 193 | |
The Naval Treaty | 213 | |
The Final Problem | 249 | |
App. I. The Adventure of the Two Collaborators | 269 | |
App. II. How I Write My Books | 272 | |
Explanatory Notes | 274 |