The Conan Doyle Stories
by Arthur Conan Doyle 
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The Conan Doyle Stories may come as a surprise to those readers who know Doyle only through Sherlock Holmes and the historical novels. Seventy-six complete tales show such genious for immiediately catching the reader's attention and imagination that the difficulty lies in knowing how to stop turning the pages. With over twelve hundred to turn, this is a book which will make you return to the beginning as soon as the last page has been read. -- Jacket.Tags
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I stumbled upon this in a charity shop a couple of years ago. It's a huge volume, 1200 pages, collecting six previous collections of short stories. It's sits amongst other short story collections by my bed, and I dip into it occasionally. Always a good read, and something entirely different from Sherlock Holmes.
This is a large omnibus edition and contains all the C.D. stories except for the Sherlock Holmes stories. Some of the stories are top-notch, ageless, others have not stood the test of time well. What else can you expect from such a tremendous output. well worth reading but I would skim through a few of them, and definitely skip "The horror of the Heights."
One of the very best books in my collection. Most of the 76 short stories here collected are little gems. Of particular note - "A Straggler of '15", "The Green Flag", "The Blighting of Sharkey","The Leather Funnel", "The Lost Special", "Lot No.249",and "The last of the Legions".
A collection of novels and stories not including the Napoleonic stories or Sherlock Holmes
Tales of: The Ring, The Camp, Pirates, Blue Water, Terror, Mystery, Twilight & The Unseen, Adventure, Medical Life and Long Ago
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The most famous fictional detective in the world is Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. However, Doyle was, at best, ambivalent about his immensely successful literary creation and, at worst, resentful that his more "serious" fiction was relatively ignored. Born in Edinburgh, Doyle studied medicine from 1876 to 1881 and received his M.D. in show more 1885. He worked as a military physician in South Africa during the Boer War and was knighted in 1902 for his exceptional service. Doyle was drawn to writing at an early age. Although he attempted to enter private practice in Southsea, Portsmouth, in 1882, he soon turned to writing in his spare time; it eventually became his profession. As a Liberal Unionist, Doyle ran, unsuccessfully, for Parliament in 1903. During his later years, Doyle became an avowed spiritualist. Doyle sold his first story, "The Mystery of the Sasassa Valley," to Chambers' Journal in 1879. When Doyle published the novel, A Study in Scarlet in 1887, Sherlock Holmes was introduced to an avid public. Doyle is reputed to have used one of his medical professors, Dr. Joseph Bell, as a model for Holmes's character. Eventually, Doyle wrote three additional Holmes novels and five collections of Holmes short stories. A brilliant, though somewhat eccentric, detective, Holmes employs scientific methods of observation and deduction to solve the mysteries that he investigates. Although an "amateur" private detective, he is frequently called upon by Scotland Yard for assistance. Holmes's assistant, the faithful Dr. Watson, provides a striking contrast to Holmes's brilliant intellect and, in Doyle's day at least, serves as a character with whom the reader can readily identify. Having tired of Holmes's popularity, Doyle even tried to kill the great detective in "The Final Problem" but was forced by an outraged public to resurrect him in 1903. Although Holmes remained Doyle's most popular literary creation, Doyle wrote prolifically in other genres, including historical adventure, science fiction, and supernatural fiction. Despite Doyle's sometimes careless writing, he was a superb storyteller. His great skill as a popular author lay in his technique of involving readers in his highly entertaining adventures. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1879-1929
- Disambiguation notice
- Contains:
The Ring and the Camp
Pirates and Blue Water
Terror and Mystery
Twilight and the Unseen
Adventure & Medical Life
Tales of Long Ago
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- Czech, English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 6
