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Authors: SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
THE DEBATABLE CASE OF MRS. EMSLEY
THE LOVE AFFAIR OF GEORGE VINCENT PARKER
THE BRITISH CAMPAIGN IN FRANCE AND FLANDERS VOLUMES I-VI
A VISIT TO THREE FRONTS. JUNE 1916
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE NEXT WAR
THE FUTURE OF CANADIAN LITERATURE
THE WANDERINGS OF A SPIRITUALIST
THE HISTORY OF SPIRITUALISM VOLUME I
THE HISTORY OF SPIRITUALISM VOLUME II
© Delphi Classics 2013
The Complete Works of
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
By
Delphi
Classics, 2013
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Statue of Sherlock Holmes, close to Conan Doyle’s birthplace in Picardy Place, Edinburgh
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One of the most celebrated and beloved characters of English fiction, Sherlock Holmes is a detective that was created by author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes is portrayed as a London-based “consulting detective”, who is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to adopt almost any disguise and his use of forensic science skills to solve difficult cases. Doyle later explained that the character of Sherlock Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, who the author had worked for as a clerk at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Like Holmes,
Bell
was noted for drawing large conclusions from the smallest observations. However, some years later
Bell
wrote in a letter to Conan Doyle: “you are yourself Sherlock Holmes and well you know it.”
The Holmes stories are often narrated by the detective’s friend Dr. John H. Watson, a former surgeon in the British Army, who was wounded at the Battle of Maiwand and sent back to
England
to recover.
When they first meet, Watson is intrigued by the intelligent detective and finds himself following along in his various adventures and cases.
The character of Holmes first appeared in publication in
A Study in Scarlet
and he was featured altogether in four novels and 56 short stories, with the narratives covering a period from around 1880 till 1914.
Dr Joseph Bell, the real-life inspiration for Sherlock Holmes
Dr. Watson (left) and Sherlock Holmes in an early illustration by Sidney Paget