The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader
Subtitle: From Sherlock Holmes to Spiritualism
Edition: 1st Cooper Square Press edition
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780815412021
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Literature: Texts; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Mystery & Detective - Sherlock Holmes; Fiction - General; English; Literary Criticism; Literary; Short Stories (single author); Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject
Description: Sampling works by the creator of Holmes and Watson, this collection features Doyle's detective stories, horror tales, journalism, historical stories, and the complete text of his science-fiction novel The Poison Belt.
Notes: US edition
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: Chronology --; title: 1. From A Study in Scarlet, Part I (1887) --; title: 2. "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891) --; title: 3. "The Los Amigos Fiasco" (1892) --; title: 4. "The Case of Lady Sannox" (1893) --; title: 5. "How the Brigadier Came to the Castle of Gloom" (1894) --; title: 6. "How the Brigadier Slew the Brothers of Ajaccio" (1895) --; title: 7. From The Stark Munro Letters (1895) --; title: 8. "The King of the Foxes" (1898) --; title: 9. "The Brazilian Cat" (1898) --; title: 10. "The Brown Hand" (1899) --; title: 11. "The Adventure of the Empty House" (1903).; label: 12. "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" (1903) --; title: 13. From The Crime of the Congo (1909) --; title: 14. From The Lost World (1912) --; title: 15. The Poison Belt (1913) --; title: 16. "Danger!" (1914) --; title: 17. From A Visit to Three Fronts (1916) --; title: 18. From The Wanderings of a Spiritualist (1921) --; title: Bibliography.