Sherlock: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The hit BBC series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, offers a fresh, contemporary take on the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and has helped introduce a whole new generation of fans to the legendary detective. This TV tie-in edition to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories, which was first published in 1894, includes the infamous 'The Final Problem'. It is one of Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock tales and the detective's deadliest challenge. This is the ultimate thriller, in which Sherlock meets his intellectual match: the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty. As Moriarty pushes Sherlock to his intellectual limits, this game of cat and mouse will test not only their wits but their mortality.

Eleven adventures from the crowded life of Sherlock Holmes, including 'The Final Problem', with which the author intended to close the career of his famous detectiveBut Holmes was a match for his creator, and 12 more stories follow in 'The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes'. * Kirkus UK *

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student. Over his life he produced more than thirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide range of genres. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel A Study in Scarlet (1887).

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ISBN 13	9781849904063
ISBN 10	1849904065
Title	Sherlock: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Author	Arthur Conan Doyle
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Ebury Publishing
Year published	2012-03-29
Number of pages	352
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