Three of the enthralling novels that brought us the world\'s greatest fictional detective are gathered here in one volume.
ANDREW LYCETT is the author of critically acclaimed biographies of Muammar Qaddafi, Ian Fleming, Rudyard Kipling, Dylan Thomas, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Wilkie Collins..
He died in 1930.
He was the author of more than fifty novels, ranging in genre from science fiction to historical fiction.
A Study in Scarlet, his first novel and Sherlock Holmes story, was published in Beeton\'s Christmas Annual in 1887. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) About the Author: ARTHUR Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859.
All three novels are gripping, timeless, and exquisitely plotted--beloved and indispensable classics of the detective genre.
The Sign of Four weaves together a stolen treasure from India, poison darts, and double-crossing thieves, while The Hound of the Baskervilles sets the legend of a diabolical hellHound and an old family curse against the backdrop of a desolate, moonlit moor.
A Study in Scarlet, a tale of Mormons and murder, is a drama of long-simmering revenge that plays out on the gaslit streets of London but has its dark roots in the pioneer settlements of Utah.
The stories and novels that followed--including The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles--expanded the duo\'s practice at 221B Baker Street, thrilling readers with the impeccable powers of deduction that inevitably guide Holmes toward any mystery\'s solution.
Watson and Holmes would go on to become two of the most widely admired characters in all of literature.
John Watson.
In 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle\'s mystery novel A Study in Scarlet unleashed for the first time the unflappable Sherlock Holmes and his partner, Dr.
Three of the enthralling novels that brought us the world\'s greatest fictional detective are gathered here in one volume
