Publisher's Synopsis
This collector-quality edition includes the complete text of twelve short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in freshly edited and newly typeset editions. With a generous 6x9 page size, this Summit Classic edition is printed on hefty 60# bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design. Page headers and individual story title pages are indicative of the care given the production of this new edition of old favorites. Additional material collected and presented for Conan Doyle fans, new or old, are a biographical sketch of the author and a detailed selected bibliography of his work. Stories included in this edition: The Horror of the Heights The Leather Funnel The New Catacomb The Case of Lady Sannox The Terror of Blue John Gap The Brazilian Cat The Lost Special The Beetle Hunter The Man With the Watches The Japanned Box The Black Doctor The Jew's Breastplate Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) is known the world over as the creator of the famous consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. To a lesser extent, his irascible Professor Challenger is known to generations of readers. But Conan Doyle was a prolific writer who produced a large body of work ranging from non-fiction and full-length novels to a wide-ranging collection of short stories. The stories in this volume were originally published separately as short stories in various magazines at various times, and some have also appeared in other collections. This particular collection of stories, titled as "Tales of Terror and Mystery", was first published together in 1923. The present volume contains examples of Conan Doyle's not-infrequent forays into the off-beat, the macabre, the mystical and the mysterious. While he became a full-blown spiritualist and paranormal enthusiast later in life, tales of a "dark side" nature were part of his repertoire from fairly early in his career. Doyle fans may be amused to note a few incidental references to "a certain well-known amateur detective" in these pages, perhaps Doyle's way of exacting a little revenge on the character he came to resent for overshadowing his other work. We are pleased to make this collection available, and hope you enjoy reading it as much as we have enjoyed preparing it.
