The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(Paperback, 2009)

Product Description

The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle are the complete adventures of the original & best detective containing four novels & fifty-six short stories about the most engaging detective of all time with a foreword by crime writer Ruth Rendell The detective Sherlock Holmes
- who continues to enthral millions in film & TV adaptations starring actors like Robert Downey Jr & Benedict Cumberbatch
- was the creation of Arthur Conan Doyle whose crime stories have thrilled readers for well over a century Sherlock Holmes is not only the most famous character in crime fiction but arguably the most famous character in all fiction In sixty adventures that pit his extraordinary wits & courage against foreign spies blackmailers cultists petty thieves murderers swindlers policemen (both stupid & clever) & his arch-nemesis Moriarty Sherlock Holmes together with his faithful sidekick Doctor John H Watson proves himself to be not only the quintessential detective but also the most engaging & entertaining company any reader could ask for The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes allows readers to experience the entire case-history of Holmes & Dr Watson from start to finish
- the stories that have spawned such infamous characters as the devilish Moriarty the devious Irene Adler & of course the legendary hound of the Baskervilles This edition

Includes:: a foreword written by crime writer Ruth Rendell Penguin also publishes in individual volumes A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Hound of the Baskervilles The Valley of Fear His Last Bow & The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes' The immense talent passion & literary brilliance that Conan Doyle brought to his work give him a unique place in English letters Personally I'd walk a million miles in tight boots just to read his letters to the milkman' Stephen Fry' Holmes has a timeless intelligence that puts him head shoulders & deer-stalker above all other detectives' Alexander Mc Call Smith' Now as in his lifetime cab drivers statesmen academics & raggedy-assed children sit spellbound at his feet No wonder then if the pairing of Holmes & Watson has triggered more imitators than any other duo in literature' John Le Carre Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) studied medicine at Edinburgh University where he became the clerk to a surgeon whose diagnostic methods provided the model for the science of deduction perfected by Sherlock Holmes He set up as a doctor & it was while waiting for patients that he began to write Sherlock Holmes first appeared in A Study in Scarlet (1887) The Holmes stories soon attracted such a following that Conan Doyle felt the character overshadowed his other work In The Final Problem (1893) Conan Doyle killed him off but was obliged by public demand to restore the detective to life