Arthur Conan Doyle’s Favourite Sherlock Holmes Stories
With Original Illustrations by Sidney Paget & Charles R. Macauley
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This enthralling collection of short stories features Arthur Conan Doyle’s 12 favourite Sherlock Holmes tales.
In 1927, The Strand Magazine, which published many of the Sherlock Holmes stories, ran a competition for fans to guess the author’s own favourite tales. In the March of that year, the magazine published an article by Arthur Conan Doyle listing his top 12 Sherlock stories and why. This collection features all those short stories alongside Conan Doyle’s article and the original illustrations by Sidney Paget and Charles R. Macauley. Delve into the dark world of Victorian London with this volume and experience the very best of Sherlock Holmes.
The stories featured in this collection include:- - The Speckled Band
- - The Red-Headed League
- - The Dancing Men
- - The Final Problem
- - A Scandal in Bohemia
- - The Empty House
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle was born in 1859. He trained to be a doctor at Edinburgh University and eventually set up a medical practice in Southsea. During the quiet periods between patients, he turned his hand to writing, producing historical novels such as Micah Clarke and adventure yarns including The Lost World, as well as four novels and fifty-six stories involving his most celebrated creations, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Doyle was knighted in 1902. In later life he devoted much of his time to his belief in Spiritualism, using his writing and celebrity as a means of providing funds to support activities in this field. He died in 1930.
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