Sherlock Holmes: Volume 4

Arthur Conan Doyle

• Publisher: Race Point Publishing
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781627889940
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

A stunning gift edition boasting the early tales of Sherlock Holmes, including two short story collections.

This fourth and final volume concludes the exciting adventures of the world's most famous pipe-smoking detective, Sherlock Holmes, collecting works written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Included are the short story collections His Last Bow: Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (1917) and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927), making this an indispensable classic for every library. This elegantly designed edition features a new introduction by Douglas Elliott.

The Knickerbocker Classics bring together the works of classic authors from around the world in stunning gift editions to be collected and enjoyed.

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
	26 October	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 Clitheroe in 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	Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is adopted as the standard time thro...