Description
'I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart'.
Scandal, treachery and crime are rife in Old London Town. A king blackmailed by his mistress, dark dealings in Opium dens, stolen jewels, a missing bride - these are cases so fiendishly complex that only the great Sherlock Holmes would dare to investigate. For he, and he alone, has the extraordinary faculty of perception and almost unhuman energy which could solve them ...
The world's best-known detective Sherlock Holmes puts his unparalleled powers of deduction to work again
About the Author
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh on May 22, 1859, one of seven children who survived to adulthood. Rejecting his family's strict Catholicism and, cut off from their patronage, he decided to set up his own practice in Southsea in 1882.
After the death of his first wife, Louise Hawkins, he went on to marry Jean Leckie in 1907 and they had two sons and a daughter. He died in 1930.
Reviews
He is unique in simultaneously bringing down the curtain on an era and raising one on another, ushering in a genre of writing that... has never been surpassed. His own life, as footballer... eye surgeon, champion of injustice and investigator into the paranormal, is the stuff of legend. Personally, I would walk a mile in tight boots to read his letters to the milkman * Stephen Fry, The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection *
Book Information
ISBN 9780755334353
Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Headline Review
Publisher Headline Publishing Group
Weight(grams) 253g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 132mm * 22mm
