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Laddar... Favourite Sherlock Holmes Stories (Crime Classics)av Arthur Conan Doyle
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The best Sherlock Holmes stories, as selected and introduced by Arthur Conan Doyle himself "When this competition was first mooted I went into it in a most light-hearted way, thinking that it would be the easiest thing in the world to pick out the twelve best of the Holmes stories. In practice I found that I had engaged myself in a serious task . . ." In 1927, Strand magazine challenged its readers to guess which of his Sherlock Holmes stories Arthur Conan Doyle himself rated as his very best. (Mr R. T. Newman of Spring Hill, Wellingborough, won £100 for successfully guessing 10 of the 12 stories correctly.) Doyle revealed his choice and, in his own inimitable way, explained his reasoning in an article for the magazine. The stories included "The Speckled Band," "The Final Problem," and "The Dancing Men." Arthur Conan Doyle's favorite 12 Sherlock Holmes stories are now published together for the first time, with his original Strand article to introduce his own selection. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Of course I was happy that the story I remember most vividly, "The Speckled Band," was number one in the list, followed by one I remember almost as well, "The Red-Headed League," and then by others, including the famous story in which Conan Doyle tried to get rid of Sherlock Holmes, as well as the one he wrote when popular protest encouraged him to bring Holmes back. Some came back to me as I read them and there were a few that I had completely forgotten. But the happiest surprise was that I enjoyed these stories just as much as I did when I first read them, perhaps more because I could appreciate the writing, characterization, and portrait of a time gone by as much as the plots and detective work. A fun read.