{"product_id":"the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-1","title":"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new collection to coincide with the upcoming major\nmotion picture starring Robert Downey, Jr., and Jude Law, \u003ci\u003eSherlock\nHolmes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThis gripping collection includes many of the famous cases-and great strokes of\nbrilliance-that made the leg­endary Sherlock Holmes one of fiction's most\npopular creations. With his devoted secretary, Dr. Watson, Holmes emerges from\nhis smoke-filled rooms on Baker Street to grapple with the forces of treachery,\nintrigue, and evil in such cases as \"The Speckled Band,\" in which a\nterrified woman begs Holmes and Watson's help in solv­ing the mystery\nsurrounding her sister's death, and \"A Scandal in Bohemia,\" which\nportrays a European king blackmailed by his mis­tress. A spine-tingling treat\nfor anyone who loves a classic whodunit, \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Sherlock\nHolmes\u003c\/i\u003e shows the inimitable detective at his best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After\nnine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, receiving a\ndegree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with\na distressing lack of success. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first\nstory, \u003ci\u003eA Study in Scarlet\u003c\/i\u003e. His detective, Sherlock Holmes, was\nmodeled in part after Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with\nspectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. Conan Doyle may\nhave been influenced also by his admiration for the neat plots of Gaboriau and\nfor Poe’s detective, M. Dupin. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAfter several rejections, the story was sold to a British\npublisher for £25, and thus was born the world’s best-known and most-loved\nfictional detective. Fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eOnce, wearying of Holmes, his creator killed him off, but\nwas forced by popular demand to resurrect him. Sir Arthur―he had been knighted\nfor this defense of the British cause in his The Great Boer War―became an\nardent Spiritualist after the death of his son Kingsley, who had been wounded\nat the Somme in World War I. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in Sussex in 1930.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44242819809487,"sku":"9780241347782","price":37.06,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_b1e00b80-8ca0-4c6d-9447-a5f36becb02c.jpg?v=1761103292","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-1","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}