The Valley of Fear - Softcover

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 160520160X ISBN 13: 9781605201603

Verlag: Cosimo Classics, 2008

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Sherlock Holmes, legendarily-if fictionally-the world's first consulting detective, returns for his fourth and final novel-length adventure in this 1915 book, originally serialized in the Strand Magazine from September 1914 to May 1915. In the course of investigating the apparent murder of one man-and discovering that the body belongs to another man entirely-Holmes and his sidekick and biographer Dr. Watson learn that they are up against the detective's most fiendish opponent, Professor James Moriarty. Can Holmes and Watson thwart Moriarty's agents in time to stop another murder? Scottish surgeon and political activist SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930) turned his passions into stories and novels, producing fiction and nonfiction works sometimes controversial (The Great Boer War, 1900), sometimes fanciful (The Coming of the Fairies, 1922), and sometimes legendary (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1892).

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Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish physician, novelist, short-story writer, and creator of Sherlock Holmes, one of the most enduring figures in world literature. Born in Edinburgh in 1859, Doyle trained in medicine before turning increasingly to fiction, where his background in observation, diagnosis, and rational analysis helped shape the methods of his famous detective. Beginning with A Study in Scarlet and continuing through the Holmes short stories published in The Strand Magazine, Doyle transformed the detective story into one of the defining popular genres of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Although he wrote historical novels, adventure fiction, science fiction, plays, essays, and spiritualist works, Doyle's reputation rests most securely on the Sherlock Holmes stories, with Dr. Watson's narrative voice, Holmes's disciplined reasoning, and the atmospheric world of Victorian and Edwardian London becoming central to classic mystery fiction. His influence reaches across detective fiction, crime writing, private investigator fiction, puzzle mysteries, radio, film, television, and modern popular culture. Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes stands among the major Holmes collections, preserving stories that helped establish the conventions of the traditional detective tale.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cosimo Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 160520160X
• ISBN 13: 9781605201603
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 168
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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