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Although best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle's work includes science fiction, historical romance and books on warfare and spiritualism. The first Sherlock Homes novel appeared in 1887 and the fictional detective soon brought fame and fortune - though Doyle always maintained his historical romances held more worth. Influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Doyle's work often demonstrates a similar contrasting of the rational and the imaginative.
A hard-up young man receives a timely invitation to visit a mysterious, wealthy cousin at his country retreat - a bizzare menagerie of birds
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Holmes investigates the case of a fiancee who disappeared on the day of the wedding.
A professor at a top university seeks Holmes'help with a possible case of cheating in a valuable scholarship exam.
The first case Holmes ever solved - while at university, he helps out a friend who's father is dying of nervousness following a visit from a
Holmes investigates when the Californian bride-to-be of Lord St. Simon goes missing just before the wedding.
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The headmaster of an exclusive boarding school persuades Holmes to track down the abducted son of a wealthy duke.
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Holmes investigates a case that begins when a young man finds his uncle terrified by five orange pips he receives in the mail.
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When Mr. Charles McCarthy is shot in a wood near Boscombe Pool, all (circumstantial) evidence appears to point at his son. But Holmes has do
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Mystery in which a pawnbroker is offered an apparently unmissable job opportunity - only red-heads need apply.
An apparently impossible scenario involving the diappearance of three people from and the appearance of a totally unknown - dead - fourth on
Holmes reveals the existence of a single organiser behind half the crime in London - an evil genius named Professor Moriarty - and soon find
A man seeks Holmes' advice when his wife's odd behaviour leads him to suspect she is hiding a terrible secret.
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