Publisher's Synopsis
This quality large print edition contains the complete and unabridged original classic version of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, including twelve stories featuring Arthur Conan Doyle's "consulting detective", printed on heavy, bright white paper in a large 7.44"x9.69" format, with page headers and a fully laminated full-color cover featuring an original design.
This volume contains twelve of Conan Doyle's original classic Sherlock Holmes adventures, first collected and published in book form in 1892. A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA;THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE;
A CASE OF IDENTITY;
THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY;
THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS;
THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP;
THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE;
THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND;
THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB;
THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR;
THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET;
THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES; 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. Other Sherlock Holmes classics available from Apex Publications in large print editions are The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Sign of the Four, A Study in Scarlet, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and His Last Bow. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) is known the world over as the creator of the famous consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. 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. Doyle's first major success as a writer came with the debut of Sherlock Holmes in the 1887 publication of "A Study in Scarlet". Holmes was a popular sensation, and more stories followed. By 1891, Sherlock Holmes was enough to provide Doyle a living, but Doyle came to resent Holmes, who kept him from what he considered "more important" work. In 1893 he "killed" Holmes, as the detective and his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, plunged to their deaths at Reichenbach Falls in "The Final Problem". It was no mere publicity stunt. Doyle considered himself finished with Mr. Sherlock Holmes. The public uproar in reaction to Holmes' "death" shocked Doyle, with even his own mother complaining, and as the clamor continued he was forced to bring the detective back in "The Hound of the Baskervilles", published, to vast public sigh of relief, in 1901. Ironically, the character Doyle resented as a "distraction" from serious work would ultimately appear in fifty-six short stories and four novels, together with countless adaptations to films, television, cartoons, and modern pastiches by an assortment of authors. In fact, the "world's first consulting detective" is widely regarded, along with Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan, as the best-known fictional characters in the world.
