Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle, W. W. Robson
ISBN-13: 9780199555642, ISBN-10: 0199555648
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: September 2009
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 last twelve stories written about Holmes and Watson, these tales reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written. Some of the sharpest turns of wit in English literature are contrasted by dark images of psychological tragedy, suicide, and incest in a collection of tales that have haunted generations of readers.
Acknowledgements | ||
General Editor's Preface to the Series | ||
Introduction | ||
Note on the Text | ||
Select Bibliography | ||
A Chronology of Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
1 | The Mazarin Stone | 5 |
2 | Thor Bridge | 23 |
3 | The Creeping Man | 50 |
4 | The Sussex Vampire | 72 |
5 | The Three Garridebs | 89 |
6 | The Illustrious Client | 106 |
7 | The Three Gables | 133 |
8 | The Blanched Soldier | 151 |
9 | The Lion's Mane | 172 |
10 | The Retired Colourman | 192 |
11 | The Veiled Lodger | 208 |
12 | Shoscombe Old Place | 220 |
Explanatory Notes | 238 | |
Appendix: A Source for 'The Veiled Lodger' | 290 |