Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in Sussex in 1930. Sir Arthur-he had been knighted for this defense of the British cause in his The Great Boer War-became an ardent Spiritualist after the death of his son Kingsley, who had been wounded at the Somme in World War I. Once, wearying of Holmes, his creator killed him off, but was forced by popular demand to resurrect him. Fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed. After several rejections, the story was sold to a British publisher for £25, and thus was born the world’s best-known and most-loved fictional detective. Conan Doyle may have been influenced also by his admiration for the neat plots of Gaboriau and for Poe’s detective, M. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. His detective, Sherlock Holmes, was modeled in part after Dr. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first story, A Study in Scarlet. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success. After nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, receiving a degree in medicine in 1881. OL262454W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 81.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. Urn:lcp:houndofbaskervildoyle00doyl:epub:406852ba-4475-4287-966b-5ae26dd65197 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier houndofbaskervildoyle00doyl Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4km01x3b Isbn 0486282147ĩ780486282145 Lccn 94026077 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. One of the all-time classic mysteries, the novel was hugely popular as readers rejoiced at the return of Sherlock Holmes.
Urn:lcp:houndofbaskervildoyle00doyl:lcpdf:70a1bfe6-2b70-4105-9b86-7f1a68ff0718 In The Hound of the Baskervilles Conan Doyle uncharacteristically emphasized the eerie setting and mysterious atmosphere rather than the hero’s deductive ingenuity.
reprinted / with new introduction by Alan Weissman. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:28:06 Boxid IA124106 Boxid_2 CH105801 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Prince Frederick, MD Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st ed. full title The Hound of the Baskervilles author Arthur Conan Doyle type of work Novel genre Mystery language English time and place written Returning from the Boer War in South Africa, Doyle wrote and published Hound of the Baskervilles in England in 1901.
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