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SHERLOCK HOLMES - THE NOVELS - ARTHUR CONAN DOY...

All four of Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary Sherlock Holmes novels  collected in a unique
Graphic Deluxe edition with an introduction by Michael DirdaIn 1886  an unsuccessful
ophthalmologist on the southern coast of England decided to try his hand at writing a detective
story. Unlike his historical romances  which required the utmost care  this could be dashed off
quickly. The first draft  featuring a Mr. Sherrinford Holmes  was a bit rough around the edges
but with a little revision  something astonishing emerged: Sherlock Holmes  Dr. Watson  and A
Study in Scarlet. As if with no warning  they sprung forth from their creator's head 
fully-formed in a new style so well-defined it felt immediately like an established genre.
Their partnership cemented within pages of the book's opening-the sum of their parts
accomplishing far more than they could apart. Sporting his signature billowing coat and pipe in
hand  the genius investigator Holmes captivated readers with his alluring melancholy and
superhuman intuition  while Watson remained ever the perfect foil  a classic Victorian
gentleman with brilliant intellect.Collected here are all four Holmes novels-A Study in Scarlet
The Sign of Four  The Hound of the Baskervilles  and The Valley of Fear-tracing the origins of
the pair up through their greatest showdowns with arch-enemy Professor Moriarty. Set in the
seductive shadow-world of Victorian London  they are at once an indelible portrait of their
time and immortal stories unmarred by passing time. Though endlessly reinterpreted  reinvented
and imitated  they have never been surpassed: the stories of Holmes and Watson lives on as
immediate and original in our time as in their own.

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