The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes & His Last Bow
Lieferzeit: Bezug 3-5 I
ISBN-13:
9781853260704
Veröffentl:
1995
Erscheinungsdatum:
05.11.1995
Seiten:
432
Autor:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Gewicht:
251 g
Format:
197x128x28 mm
Serie:
Wordsworth Classics
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written, and he can be seen to take advantage of new, more open conventions in fiction. Suicide as a murder weapon and homosexual incest are some of the psychological tragedies whose consequences are unravelled by the mind of Holmes before the eyes of Watson. That said, the collection also includes some of the best turns of wit in the series, and indeed in the whole of English literature.
These two fascinating sets of stories, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes and His Last Bow, make a glorious farewell to the greatest detective of them all and his erstwhile companion, Dr Watson.
This volume completes the canon of the illustrated Sherlock Holmes stories, reprinted from The Strand Magazine. It contains the short story series Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear - a sinister novella which appeared in 1914-15 - His Last Bow:The War Service of Sherlock Holmes and the last 12 stories The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes