List Books » The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sterling Unabridged Classics Series)
Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen
ISBN-13: 9781402714535, ISBN-10: 140271453X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Sterling Publishing
Date Published: September 2004
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.
The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations.
Scott created these drawings in scratchboard an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally.
It’s elementary—there’s no more intriguing detective than Sherlock Holmes, with his unequalled powers of deduction, and no better mysteries than the tricky ones that only he can solve. Here are some of the finest Holmes stories, recounted by his trusty friend and assistant, Dr. Watson.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | ||
A Scandal in Bohemia | 3 | |
Chapter 15 | ||
Chapter 216 | ||
Chapter 327 | ||
A Case of Identity | 31 | |
The Red-Headed League | 51 | |
The Boscombe Valley Mystery | 77 | |
The Five Orange Pips | 103 | |
The Man with the Twisted Lip | 125 | |
The Blue Carbuncle | 151 | |
The Speckled Band | 175 | |
The Engineer's Thumb | 203 | |
The Noble Bachelor | 227 | |
The Beryl Coronet | 251 | |
The Copper Beeches | 279 | |
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes | ||
Silver Blaze | 309 | |
The Yellow Face | 337 | |
The Stockbroker's Clerk | 359 | |
The Gloria Scott | 379 | |
The Musgrave Ritual | 399 | |
The Religate Squires | 421 | |
The Crooked Man | 443 | |
The Resident Patient | 463 | |
The Greek Interpreter | 485 | |
The Naval Treaty | 507 | |
The Final Problem | 543 | |
Questions, Questions, Questions | 565 | |
About the Author, About the Illustrator | 569 |