Today, nearly seventy years after his death, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is universally associated with his most popular literary creation, Sherlock Holmes. In fact, the hyper-rational detective is ...

Mention Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes pops to mind, which is not the way Conan Doyle wished to be known. Nor does he need to be, for Conan Doyle threw himself into life with a vengeance ...

Conan Doyle uses the narrative voice of Dr Watson to present the characters and scenes of this novel. This allows the reader to feel close to the action and to follow the plot as it unfolds.