Arthur Conan Doyle (Magill’s Choice: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction)

Principal Series

Sherlock Holmes, 1886-1927.

Principal Series Characters

Sherlock Holmes, a private investigator and an eccentric researcher in virtually all areas of criminology. He begins taking cases when in his twenties and continues into his sixties, though he has by then retired from his rooms at 221B Baker Street, London, to beekeeping on a South Downs farm. Though loyal to friends and the social order, he remains above his cases, casting the cool light of reason upon seemingly insoluble puzzles. A connoisseur of crime, he languishes in depression when...

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