The World of Sherlock Holmes - The Behind-the-Scenes Life of a Great Detective and the Novel Backgrounds: The Behind-the-Scenes Life of a Great Detective and the Novel Backgrounds

Author: Martin Fido
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Features: Sherlock Holmes is the most famous detective in the world of fiction. He is a bit eccentric yet highly intelligent, renowned for his unparalleled deductive reasoning. This detective, wearing a deerstalker hat and smoking a large pipe, has been immortalized by illustrators and actors. Conan Doyle had killed off Holmes in 1893, but later was compelled by the pressure of readers to bring him back to life. The great detective Sherlock Holmes created by Arthur Conan Doyle heralded the rise of the most popular creative model in fiction—the detective novel. This book takes us into the world of Sherlock Holmes—the life of this mysterious detective, as well as the world of the writer who created him—Arthur Conan Doyle—and the extraordinary era in which they lived.