The Real Sherlock Holmes (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Hoehling
- First Published: 1965
- Time of Work: 1868–1930
- Setting: Scotland, England, Austria, the Arctic, Africa, France, and the United States
- Principal Characters: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Doyle, Joseph Bell, Louise “Touie” Hawkins, Jean Leckie
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Authors or writers, Writing, England or English people, Storytelling, Detectives, Mysteries, Biography
- Locales: Africa, France, United States, England, Scotland, Austria, Arctic
Form and Content
In The Real Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Hoehling details the adventurous life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, from his youth in a poor nineteenth century neighborhood in Edinburgh to his later years in the early twentieth century, when he had become an internationally famous writer. Her narrative progresses chronologically through nineteen chapters and is followed by a bibliography of works both about and by Doyle, as well as an index. The book is written in the third person, except for short excerpts from correspondence, quotations from...
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