The four novels of the canon are: A Study in Scarlet (1887) The Sign of the Four (1890) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901–1902) and The Valley of Fear (1914–1915). The term “canon”, in this context, is an attempt to distinguish between Doyle’s original works and subsequent works by other authors using the same characters. Traditionally, the Sherlock Holmes Canon consists of the 56 short stories and four novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr Watson. A great plot wonderfully written.Ībout de Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and medical doctor.

But when Holmes and Watson are returning back home, Holmes senses the pressing need to return for clarifying certain unknowns.Ī pleasant and entertaining reading that confirms the talent of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Lady Brackenstall’s testimony about what’s happened that night is confirmed by her maid, Theresa Wright, and the case seems to have been successfully sorted out without the intervention of Sherlock Holmes. In fact the infamous Randall gang, a father and two sons, have been seen recently in the surroundings. Sir Eustace, most likely, has been killed that evening during a burglary attempt. Upon their arrival Inspector Hopkins apologies, the case has been solved. Holmes is afraid that Sir Eustace may have been murdered. Holmes and Watson head towards Marsham in Kent, upon the request of Inspector Stanley Hopkins, to Abbey Grange, the house of Sir Eustace Brackenstall. The candle in his hand shone upon his eager, stooping face, and told me at a glance that something was amiss. It was on a bitterly cold night and frosty morning, towards the end of the winter of 97, that I was awakened by a tugging at my shoulder. This short story, told by Dr Watson as the rest of the canon, begins as follows: It was first published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in September 1904, and was also published in Collier’s in the United States on 31 December 1904. “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange”, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905). Signature Edition The Complete Works Collections, 2011.

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The adventure of abbey grange