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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Paperback)
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Paperback)
Series: Sherlock Holmes, 9
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Loot Price R246
Discovery Miles 2 460
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930)is chiefly remembered for his
celebrated creation of detective Sherlock Holmes, whose brilliant
solutions to a wide variety of crimes began in "A Study in Scarlet"
(1887) first published in the "Strand Magazine" and collected in
"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1894), "The Memoirs of
Sherlock Holmes" etc. His friend, Dr Watson, with whom he shares
rooms in Baker Street, attends him throughout most of his
adventures. The success was immediate and lasting, and Arthur Conan
Doyle rose rapidly to prominence as a result. The stories of Edgar
Allan Poe and of Emile Gaboriau were the major sources of
inspiration. Gaboriau provided the sensational and the rational
elements, but the art came from Edgar Allan Poe. The first six
adventures are not true detective stories, though the detective is
essential to them. They are fantasies and fairy stories, and their
greatness lies not in applying and developing the methods of
Gaboriau and Poe, but in their relation to the style, atmosphere,
and ethos of the period. The reality of Sherlock Holmes was a
quality which struck readers and critics alike. T.S. Eliot also
succumbed to the spell: "The greatest of the Sherlock Holmes
mysteries was that when we talk of him we invariably fall into the
fancy of his existence."
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