The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

The works of Arthur Conan Doyle about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and his indispensable assistant Doctor Watson rightfully stand as classics of the detective genre. It is believed that the prototype of Holmes was a real man—Dr. Joseph Bell, a colleague of Conan Doyle, who worked at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and was famous for his ability to guess a person’s character and past from the tiniest details.

Despite the incredible popularity of stories about the famous detective, Conan Doyle himself considered these works “light reading” and did not share readers’ enthusiasm, believing himself above all a writer of historical novels. At one point, he even decided to end the detective’s story by killing him in a fight with Professor Moriarty. But the stream of angry letters from readers—legend has it that even Queen Victoria was among them—forced the author to “bring Holmes back” and continue describing his adventures.

Contents:

– The Hunchback

– The Greek Interpreter

– The Adventure of the Permanent Patient

– The Broker’s Clerk

– The Final Problem