{"product_id":"sherlock-holmes-the-complete-novels-and-stories-volume-ii-02","title":"Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume II: 02","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSince his first appearance in \u003ci\u003eBeeton’s Christmas\nAnnual\u003c\/i\u003e in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one\nof the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback\nvolumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring\nConan Doyle’s classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s\nadventures in crime!\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nVolume II begins with \u003cb\u003eThe Hound of the Baskervilles\u003c\/b\u003e, a haunting\nnovel of murder on eerie Grimpen Moor, which has rightly earned its reputation\nas the finest murder mystery ever written. \u003cb\u003eThe Valley of Fear\u003c\/b\u003e matches\nHolmes against his archenemy, the master of imaginative crime, Professor\nMoriarty. In addition, the loyal Dr. Watson has faithfully recorded Holmes’s\nfeats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the thrilling \u003cb\u003eThe\nAdventure of the Red Circle\u003c\/b\u003e and the twelve baffling adventures\nfrom \u003cb\u003eThe Case Book of Sherlock Holmes.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/b\u003eConan Doyle’s incomparable tales bring to life a Victorian England of\nhorse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where for\nmore than forty years Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the\ngreatest fictional detective of all time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSir Arthur Conan Doyle\u003c\/b\u003e was born on May 22, 1859\nin Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to\nwrite stories while he was a student. Over his life he produced more than\nthirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide range of\ngenres. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he\nintroduced in his first novel \u003ci\u003eA Study in Scarlet\u003c\/i\u003e (1887). This\nwas followed in 1889 by an historical novel, \u003ci\u003eMicah Clarke\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1893\nConan Doyle published 'The Final Problem' in which he killed off his famous\ndetective so that he could turn his attention more towards historical fiction.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHowever Holmes was so popular that Conan Doyle eventually relented and\npublished \u003ci\u003eThe Hound of the Baskervilles\u003c\/i\u003e in 1901. The events of\nthe \u003ci\u003eThe Hound of the Baskervilles\u003c\/i\u003e are set before those of 'The\nFinal Problem' but in 1903 new Sherlock Holmes stories began to appear that\nrevealed that the detective had not died after all. He was finally retired in\n1927. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on July 7, 1930.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44636081750223,"sku":"9780553212426","price":14.12,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_9f1bd6a5-0f51-4d5f-a48d-e8b59a182a07.jpg?v=1761103092","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/sherlock-holmes-the-complete-novels-and-stories-volume-ii-02","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}