About the book:
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Eoin Colfer
Publish Date: May 24, 2010
Publisher: Bibliolis Books
About the Author:
Arthur Conan Doyle was conceived the third of ten kin on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was conceived in England of Irish plummet, and his mother, conceived Mary Foley. From 1876 to 1881 he considered pharmaceutical at the University of Edinburgh. This obliged that he give occasional medicinal support in the towns of Aston (now a locale of Birmingham) and Sheffield. While concentrating on, Conan Doyle started composition short stories. His initially distributed story showed up in “Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal” before he was 20. Accompanying his graduation, he was utilized as a boat’s specialist on the Ss Mayumba throughout a voyage to the West African coast. He finished his doctorate on the subject of tabes dorsalis in 1885.
Review:
Originally a series 12 stories were separately published by Strand Magazine in late 1890’s but The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes combines all of them in one book and present most famous character of Sherlock Holmes and beloved Dr. Watson to the world. The writer went on to write five more short stories but only one of them that is by far the most exciting is part of the book
Doyle’s is especially gifted when it comes to storytelling skill and making such masterful plots and then twisting them. Writers such abilities has drawn worldwide audience for the book.
Most fans of detectives would already know him or they could imagine him doing things written in the books because they are so well themed. Every one imagine him differently and many different portrait were used to describe him according to the imagination of the readers. At last Doyle had to describe his legendary character and he described him as
“With a high-nosed acute face, penetrating gray eyes, angular shoulders.” Dr. Bell “would sit in his receiving room with a face like a Red Indian, and diagnose the people as they came in, before they even opened their mouths. He would tell them details of their past life; and hardly would he ever make a mistake”
As mentioned above the book has 12 different stories that make this book;
The Five Orange Pips
The Red-Headed League
A Case of Identity
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
A Scandal in Bohemia
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 Beryl Coronet
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Every story develops same interest out of reader but so different in nature that make this book a must read for the lovers of mystery book.