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The Complete Works of
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
(1859-1930)
Contents
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The Complete Works of
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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Statue of Sherlock Holmes, close to Conan Doyles birthplace in Picardy Place, Edinburgh
One of the most celebrated and beloved characters of English fiction, Sherlock Holmes is a detective that was created by author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes is portrayed as a London-based consulting detective, who is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to adopt almost any disguise and his use of forensic science skills to solve difficult cases. Doyle later explained that the character of Sherlock Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, who the author had worked for as a clerk at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing large conclusions from the smallest observations. However, some years later Bell wrote in a letter to Conan Doyle: you are yourself Sherlock Holmes and well you know it.
The Holmes stories are often narrated by the detectives friend Dr. John H. Watson, a former surgeon in the British Army, who was wounded at the Battle of Maiwand and sent back to England to recover. When they first meet, Watson is intrigued by the intelligent detective and finds himself following along in his various adventures and cases.
The character of Holmes first appeared in publication in 1887 in the novel A Study in Scarlet and he was featured altogether in four novels and 56 short stories, with the narratives covering a period from around 1880 till 1914.
Dr Joseph Bell, the real-life inspiration for Sherlock Holmes
Dr. Watson (left) and Sherlock Holmes in an early illustration by Sidney Paget
This novel was published in 1887 and is the first Sherlock Holmes story. The novels title derives from a speech given by Holmes to his companion Doctor Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the storys murder investigation as his study in scarlet. Conan Doyle wrote the novel at the age of 27 in less than three weeks. As a general practice doctor in Southsea, Hampshire, he had already published short stories in magazines, but this was his first attempt at a novel. It was originally titled A Tangled Skein and was eventually published in Beetons Christmas Annual 1887, after many rejections. The author received 25 in return for the full rights and it was illustrated by D. H. Friston. The novel was first published as a book on July 1888 and featured drawings by the authors father, Charles Doyle. The story, and its main character, attracted little interest when it first appeared. Only a handful of copies of Beetons Christmas Annual 1887 are known to exist now and they ae now highly treasured by literary collectors.
One of the few surviving first edition annual covers
A STUDY IN SCARLET.
CONTENTS
PART I .
( Being a reprint from the reminiscences of JOHN H. WATSON, M.D., late of the Army Medical Department. )
CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES .
IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London , and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon. The regiment was stationed in India at the time, and before I could join it, the second Afghan war had broken out. On landing at Bombay , I learned that my corps had advanced through the passes, and was already deep in the enemys country. I followed, however, with many other officers who were in the same situation as myself, and succeeded in reaching Candahar in safety, where I found my regiment, and at once entered upon my new duties.
The campaign brought honours and promotion to many, but for me it had nothing but misfortune and disaster. I was removed from my brigade and attached to the Berkshires, with whom I served at the fatal battle of Maiwand. There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. I should have fallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines.
Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships which I had undergone, I was removed, with a great train of wounded sufferers, to the base hospital at Peshawar . Here I rallied, and had already improved so far as to be able to walk about the wards, and even to bask a little upon the verandah, when I was struck down by enteric fever, that curse of our Indian possessions. For months my life was despaired of, and when at last I came to myself and became convalescent, I was so weak and emaciated that a medical board determined that not a day should be lost in sending me back to England . I was dispatched, accordingly, in the troopship Orontes, and landed a month later on Portsmouth jetty, with my health irretrievably ruined, but with permission from a paternal government to spend the next nine months in attempting to improve it.
I had neither kith nor kin in England , and was therefore as free as air or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London , that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand , leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought. So alarming did the state of my finances become, that I soon realised that I must either leave the metropolis and rusticate somewhere in the country, or that I must make a complete alteration in my style of living. Choosing the latter alternative, I began by making up my mind to leave the hotel, and to take up my quarters in some less pretentious and less expensive domicile.
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