Sherlock Holmes: A Gripping Casebook of Stories: A Gripping Casebook of Stories

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Offers the first novel-length story in which Sherlock Holmes made his bow, A Study in Scarlet plus 14 short stories featuring the famous detective.

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a writer and physician. Born in Edinburgh in Scotland, he began writing short stories while studying medicine. His first work featuring his famous literary creation, (the detective Sherlock Holmes) was A Study in Scarlet, published in 1886. Relentlessly curious about a vast range of subjects, his interests were reflected in the vast array of knowledge that Sherlock Holmes exhibited in his stories. Conan Doyle died at the age of 71 and is buried in Hampshire.

Martin Edwards is an award-winning crime writer, founding-member of the Murder Squad collective of crime writers and editor of the Crime Writers' Association's annual anthology.

George Wylie Hutchinson (1852-1942) was a British illustrator. Born in Canada, he then moved to London at 14 and studied painting at the Royal Academy. His illustrated numerous works by classic authors, including Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson.