Favourite Sherlock Holmes Stories: Crime Classics by Arthur Conan Doyle, ISBN 9781843549109

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'Sherlock Holmes is literature' Edmund Wilson

'When this competition was first mooted I went into it in a most light-hearted way, thinking that it would be easiest thing in the world to pick out the twelve best of the Holmes stories. In practice I found that I had engaged myself in a serious task . . .'

In 1927, Strand magazine challenged its readers to guess which of his Sherlock Holmes stories Arthur Conan Doyle rated as his very best. (Mr R. T, Newman of Spring Hill, Wellingborough, won 100 for guessing ten of the twelve stores correctly.) Later, Doyle revealed his choice and. In his own inimitable fashion, explained his reasoning in an article for the magazine. The stories included such classics of the detective genre as 'The Speckled Band', 'The Final Problem' and 'The Dancing Men'.

Arthur Conan Doyle's favourite twelve Sherlock Holmes stories are now published together for the first time, along with his original Strand article introducing his own selection.

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About the Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland. His mother, Mary, was passionate about books, and loved storytelling. Arthur is on record as saying that his most powerful memories as a child were of his mother's powerful and emotive storytelling. After being sent to boarding school in England at the age of nine, he wrote frequently to his mother (one of his few joys at the time). It was a difficult time for him, but he realised he too had a gift for telling stories, and could often be found with enraptured younger students, listening to stories he would make up to amuse them.
After school Arthur studied medicine and met other future authors, fellow students such as James Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson. But the man who most impressed and influenced him, was without a doubt, one of his teachers, Dr. Joseph Bell. The good doctor was a master at observation, logic, deduction, and diagnosis. All these qualities were later to be found in the persona of the celebrated detective Sherlock Holmes. He graduated and eventually set himself up in Portmouth as a practicing GP. He married and after a slow start earned a comfortable living, and dabbled in writing.
In March 1886, Conan Doyle started writing the novel which catapulted him to fame. At first it was named A Tangled Skein and the two main characters were called Sheridan Hope and Ormond Sacker. Two years later this novel was published in Beeton's Christmas Annual, under the title A Study in Scarlet which introduced us to the immortal Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
This marked the start of a serious dichotomy in the author's life. There was Sherlock Holmes, who very quickly became world famous, in stories its author considered at best "commercial" and there were a number of serious historical novels, poems and plays, based upon which Conan Doyle expected to be recognized as a serious author.

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