Sherlock Holmes: Volume 2
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Sherlock Holmes: Volume 2
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
About This Book
A stunning edition boasting the early tales of Sherlock Holmes, including a full-length novel and more short stories. Sherlock Holmes: Volume 2 continues the exciting adventures of the world's most famous pipe-smoking detective, Sherlock Holmes, featuring the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Included are the short story collection The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894) and the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902). From his home, 221B Baker Street in London, the legendary Sherlock Holmes (accompanied by his loyal companion and chronicler, Dr. Watson) employs his mastery of deductive reasoning and expert sleuthing to solve an arraying of complex and harrowing cases, baffling the police and becoming internationally renowned for his remarkable observations and even more eccentric habits. Complete and unabridged, this elegantly designed edition features a new introduction by Doug Elliott. The Knickerbocker Classics bring together the works of classic authors from around the world in stunning gift editions to be collected and enjoyed.
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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
1859 | 30 April | The first issue of Charles Dickens’s weekly magazine, All the Year Round, is published in London |
22 May | Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Mary and Charles Altamont Doyle | |
26 November | Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White begins its serialization in Charles Dickens’s weekly literary magazine, All the Year Round | |
1860 | August | Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White is published in three volumes by Sampson Low & Son, London. |
1861 | 14 December | Queen Victoria’s consort, Prince Albert, dies at Windsor Castle |
1863 | 10 January | The London Underground first opens for business offering service between Paddington and Farringdon Street |
26October | The Football Association is formed | |
1867 | 5 March | Fenian Rising in Ireland |
1868 | 26 May | The last public hanging in Britain occurs outside Newgate Prison |
Fall | Conan Doyle begins two years of studies at the Jesuit-run Hodder Place preparatory school at Stonyhurst, near Clitheroein Lancashire | |
Fall | Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone is published in three volumes by Tinsley Brothers, London | |
1870 | 9 June | Charles Dickens dies at Gads Hill Place in Higham, Kent, England |
Fall | Conan Doyle matriculates at Stonyhurst College and continues his studies under the Jesuits | |
1871 | 26 January | Rugby Football Union established |
1 November | The sale of commissions in the British Army is abolished | |
1875 | Conan Doyle completes his studies at Stonyhurst and pursues a year of post-graduate studies at Stella Matutina, a Jesuit school in Austria | |
1876 | Conan Doyle matriculates at the University of Edinburgh as a medical student | |
1877 | 1 January | Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India |
1878 | 7 April | The Metropolitan Police Service’s Criminal Investigations Department is established by Charles Howard Vincent |
25 May | Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore premieres at the Opera Comique, Strand, London | |
21 November | Second Afghan War begins | |
1879 | 22 January | A British invading force is annihilated by a Zulu army at the Battle of Isandlwana and B Company of the 24th Regiment of Foot barely survives an engagement at Rorke’s Drift that lasts throughout the following day |
4 July | British forces decisively defeat the Zulu nation at the Battle of Ulundi | |
9 September | Conan Doyle’s first published work, “The Mystery of Sasassa Valley,” appears in Chambers’s Journal | |
20 September | Conan Doyle’s first work of non-fiction, “Gelsemium as a Poison,” is published in the British Medical Journal | |
1880 | Summer | Having completed his classroom studies in medicine, Conan Doyle takes a position as a doctor on a Greenland whaler |
2 August | Greenwi... |