The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Large Print Edition) by Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated) - Softcover

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Presenting the Large Print edition of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, which features 16-point sized font and above.

This famous collection features twelve Sherlock Holmes stories:

I. A Scandal in Bohemia

II. The Red-Headed League

III. A Case of Identity

IV. The Boscombe Valley Mystery

V. The Five Orange Pips

VI. The Man with the Twisted Lip

VII. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

VIII. The Adventure of the Speckled Band

IX. The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb

X. The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

XI. The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet

XII. The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

Unique among detectives, Sherlock Holmes and his companion Watson are the most portrayed and most read about of all time. Among large print Sherlock Holmes and mystery books for seniors through to young readers and large print short story books, this The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes large print edition will be a source of great entertainment and intrigue for readers of all ages.

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born in 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland. After being educated in England and Austria, Doyle studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, and also practical botany at Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden. He worked as a ship’s doctor and surgeon, and then set up his own medical practice in Portsmouth in 1882. His practice proved unsuccessful, and, having had several pieces of writing published (including academic articles and a short story), he focussed on writing fiction even though his difficulty in finding a publisher led him to continue his work, study, and writings in medicine. A Study in Scarlet, the first work featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, was published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887. Its sequel, The Sign of the Four, appeared in Lippincott’s Magazine in 1890, and short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes were published in the Strand Magazine (in 1891, A Scandal in Bohemia introduced him to a wide audience). Made a Knight Bachelor by King Edward VII in 1902, Doyle was also appointed Knight of Grace of the Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in 1903. While he wrote on a broad range of topics, his other most popular works include Holmes novels The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) and The Valley of Fear (1915), and science fiction and fantasy novels The Lost World (1912), The Poison Belt (1913), and The Land of Mist (1926) featuring Professor Challenger. Doyle died of a heart attack at his house in Crowborough, East Sussex, in 1930.

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