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One Hundred Years of Sherlock Holmes |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: John H. Fund |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 2,112 Words, 12,630 Characters |
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CONAN DOYLE, PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Julian Symons
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1987
144 pp., $15.95
SHERLOCK HOLMES: A CENTENARY CELEBRATION
Allen Eyles
New York: Harper & Row, 1987
144 pp., $22.95
One hundred years ago, a not-particularly-successful physician named Arthur Conan Doyle submitted a tale of revenge and murder called "A Study in Scarlet" to Beeton's Christmas Annual, after the story had been rejected by numerous publishing houses. The editors of the Annual, a rather undistinguished home for light reading, considered the story to be "cheap fiction" and offered the good doctor a paltry sum for all rights. In December 1887, the story appeared, sandwiched between long-forgotten tales of romance and British country life. A huge success, "A Study in Scarlet" introduced to the world what would become one of the most memorable fictional characters ever created--Sherlock Holmes. The story firmly established the parameters of the new literary genre called the detective story and set the author on the road to wealth and fame.
Conan Doyle would write a total of fifty-five short stories and four full-length novels about his immortal creation, whose adventures have served as grist for over two hundred mo...
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... roll through the streets of London, where the game is afoot and where the world of 1895 lives forever." The centenary volume on Sherlock Holmes by Allen Eyles helps us to better appreciate "the world's greatest consulting detective," while Julian Symons reminds us that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is also worthy of attention--and a tip of the hat--as his greatest creation turns the century mark.
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