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The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 1843441225
- ISBN 13
- 9781843441229
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Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England: Pulp! The Classics / Oldcastle Books Ltd, 2013. MMPB. As New. Later Printing A desolate moor, a diabolical dog in need of a muzzle, and some inbred locals...Sherlock Holmes is really up against it. With the help of his trusty sidekick Dr Watson, Holmes pieces together a mystery that has captured the imagination of readers across the decades. All whilst practising a serious coffee and cocaine habit! ** 46% off retail price! Later print with plain page edges. Packed and shipped with care.
Synopsis
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.
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- Retrograde Media
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RM1005
- Title
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Author
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Format/Binding
- MMPB
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1843441225
- ISBN 13
- 9781843441229
- Publisher
- Pulp! The Classics / Oldcastle Books Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England
- Date Published
- 2013
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- Pulp Reprints;
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