(SAMPLE) CHAPTER I EARLY RECOLLECTIONS Extraction — “ H. B.” — Four Remarkable Brothers — My Mother’s Family Tree — An Unrecognized Genius — My First Knockout — Thackeray — The Fenians — Early Reading — My First Story. T WAS born on May 22, 1859…
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
Sherlock Holmes Short Story Mysteries is a spectacular and timeless collection of 56 short stories depicting the journey of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson through the underbelly of London as they not only commit petty crimes but also delve into complex and puzzling mysteries that keep readers on t…
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a radio drama series which aired in the USA from 1939 to 1950, it ran for 374 episodes, with many of the later episodes considered lost media. The series was based on the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Some of the surviving episode recordings…
Sherlock Holmes has become such a cultural fixture since he first appeared in print that all of us have surely, at one time or another, considered reading through the London detective’s complete case files. You might consider reading the adventures of Sherlock Holmes according to the preferences …
The Lost World is a science fiction novel by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1912, concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals still survive. It was originally published serially in the Strand Magazin…
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely in Dartmoor, Devon, in England's West Country and follows …
John Stanley was one of the various actors who starred as Sherlock Holmes in the New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Radio series. He held the role from 1947-1949. 78 episodes aired with him playing the lead.
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The Sign of the Four, also called The Sign of Four, is an 1890 detective novel, and it is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective. Plot In 1888 Miss Mary Morstan arrives w…
A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would go on to become one of the most well-known detective duos in literature. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a…
The Case-Book includes 12 short stories explaining the detectives work. These stories included a range from a soldier quarantined away because of a mystery illness to a veiled lodger with a harrowing story to confess.
On October 12, 1946, Tom Conway replaced Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. Nigel Bruce continued to star as Doctor Watson. The new series lasted 39 episodes, and Bruce and Conway then left the series. From then until 1950 the series continued with various actors playing the two principal parts.
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as a radio drama series aired in the USA from 1939 to 1950. The series ran 374 episodes in total with 220 of those being casted with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Rathbone starring as Sherlock Holmes and Bruce as Doctor Watson. Each week the episodes woul…
The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. The first book edition was copyri…
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes was a South African radio show series of 47 or 50 episodes, produced by Michael Silver and aired on Springbok Radio (Johannesburg, South Africa) between 1979/1980 and 1985, starring Graham Armitage as Sherlock Holmes and Kerry Jordan as Dr. Watson. The episodes were a…
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published late in 1893 with 1894 date. First published in the UK by G. Newnes Ltd., and was published in the US by Harper & Brothers in February 1894. It was the second collection featuring t…