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ChristoPher ColuMbus
1451 – 1506, italian, (b. genoa)
The Four Voyages
Edited and Translated with an
Introduction by J. M. Cohen
This volume includes Columbus’s letters
and logbook and remains the definitive
primary source on his voyages to Cuba,
Hispaniola, Jamaica, Trinidad, and
Central America.
320 pp. 978-0-14-044217-5 $14.00
arthur Conan doyle
1859 – 1930, scottish
The Adventures and The Memoirs of
Sherlock Holmes
With an Introduction by Iain Pears and
Notes by Ed Glinert
On the docks, in cocaine dens, and in
the new suburbs of Victorian London,
Holmes unravels case after case—from
“A Scandal in Bohemia” to “The Final
Problem”—as Dr. Watson records his
greatest strokes of brilliance.
576 pp. 978-0-14-043771-3 $14.00
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Christopher Frayling
The most popular of all Sherlock Holmes
stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles
combines the traditional detective
tale with elements of horror and the
supernatural. When a dead man is found
surrounded by the footprints of a giant
hound, blame is placed on a family
curse—and it is up to Holmes and Watson
to solve the mystery of the legend.
256 pp. 978-0-14-043786-7 $8.00
The Sign of Four
With an Introduction by Peter Ackroyd and
Notes by Ed Glinert
Contentedly sitting in a cocaine-induced
haze, Holmes is forced into action when
a distressed and beautiful young woman
comes begging his help. Every year since
the disappearance of her father, Miss
Morstan has received a rare and lustrous
pearl. Now, summoned to meet her
anonymous benefactor, she consults
Holmes.
160 pp. 978-0-14-043907-6 $8.00
arthur Conan doyle
Born in Edinburgh in 1859, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was educated at Stonyhurst,
and later studied medicine at Edinburgh University, where he became the
surgeon’s clerk to Professor Joseph Bell, whose diagnostic method provided
the model for the science of deduction perfected by Sherlock Holmes. Conan
Doyle set up as a doctor at Southsea, and it was while waiting for patients that
he began to write. Sherlock Holmes first appeared in A Study in Scarlet in 1887.
The Holmes stories attracted such a following that Conan Doyle felt the character
overshadowed his other work and killed him off in “The Final Problem” (1893),
but public demand compelled Conan Doyle to restore the detective to life. Conan
Doyle himself died in 1930.
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