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Recopilación de todas las aventuras del legendario detective SHERLOCK HOLMES.
Estudio en escarlata
El signo de los cuatro
Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes
Las memorias de Sherlock Holmes
El sabueso de los Baskerville
La reaparición de Sherlock Holmes
Su último saludo desde el escenario
El valle del terror
Sherlock Holmes sigue en pie
El archivo de Sherlock Holmes
Synopsis
Recopilación de todas las aventuras del legendario detective SHERLOCK HOLMES.
Estudio en escarlata
El signo de los cuatro
Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes
Las memorias de Sherlock Holmes
El sabueso de los Baskerville
La reaparición de Sherlock Holmes
Su último saludo desde el escenario
El valle del terror
Sherlock Holmes sigue en pie
El archivo de Sherlock Holmes
About the Author, Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was both a doctor and a believer in spirits, which may partly explain why his Sherlock Holmes is one of literature's most beloved detectives: Holmes always approaches his cases with the gentility and logic of a scientist, but the stories are suffused with an aura of the supernatural. Narrated by devoted assistant Dr. John H. Watson, Holmes's adventures were so addictive that fans protested the master deducer's "death" in 1893 and Doyle had to resurrect him.
Biography
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, receiving a degree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first story, A Study in Scarlet. His detective, Sherlock Holmes, was modeled in part after Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. Conan Doyle may have been influenced also by his admiration for the neat plots of Gaboriau and for Poe's detective, M. Dupin. 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. Fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed.
Once, wearying of Holmes, his creator killed him off, but was forced by popular demand to resurrect him. 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. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in Sussex in 1930.
