The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sherlock Holmesappears in All

Sherlock Holmes is the key character in all of the stories in this collection. He is a "consulting detective," what we would today call a private investigator. Apparently, not long after the started his career as a detective, he needed more money and took Watson on as a roommate in his apartment. He lives and works out of 221B Baker street, a small but well furnished apartment with 17 steps leading...

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, where his father had moved from London after taking a job as a civil serv... Read more

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I. To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman.  I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.  In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.  It was not th... Read more

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Arthur Conan Doyle

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"I remarked to my mother with precocious wisdom that it was easy to get people into scrapes," Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in his autobiography, Memories and Adventures, "but not so easy to get them out a... Read more

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Of all the manifold literary achievements of the Victorian age, the most important and enduring may very well turn out to be those traditionally regarded as mere entertainment, as "light" and popular ... Read more

Arthur Conan Doyle

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It is difficult to imagine the shape which detective fiction might have taken had it not been for the creation by Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle took a form of fiction which had be... Read more

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his short stories and novels about Sherlock Holmes, whom Jon L. Lellenberg describes in The Quest for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Thirteen Biographies in Search of a L... Read more

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is better known for his detective, Sherlock Holmes, than for his stories and novels of fantasy and science fiction, but his contributions to these other genres were formidable. ... Read more

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

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The British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is best remembered as the creator of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes.Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on May 22, 1859, int... Read more

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

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Biography EssayIt is difficult to imagine the shape which detective fiction might have taken had it not been for the creation by Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle took a form of ficti... Read more

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