The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality as a literary figure.
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality as a literary figure.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh on May 22, 1859, one of seven children who survived to adulthood. Rejecting his family's strict Catholicism and, cut off from their patronage, he decided to set up his own practice in Southsea in 1882. After the death of his first wife, Louise Hawkins, he went on to marry Jean Leckie in 1907 and they had two sons and a daughter. He died in 1930.
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good-. Reprint; Fourth Printing. Some reading and cover creases, slight corner loss to front cover, some shelf and edge wear, paper toned. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside. ; 256 pages; Includes details of Holmes first case 'The Gloria Scott' as well as a meeting with his brilliant brother Mycroft, of whom Holmes says, `If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from any armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. ' But the Memoirs are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of Holmes and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, at the Reichenbach Falls left many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but also led to his immortality as a literary figure. Mass Market PB. Artikel-Nr. 17441
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