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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in 1930. Within those years was crowded a variety of activity and creative work that made him an international figure and inspired the French to give him the epithet 'the good giant'. He was the nephew of 'Dickie Doyle' the artist, and was educated at Stonyhurst, and later studied medicine at Edinburgh University, where the methods of diagnosis of one of the professors provided the idea for the methods of deduction used by Sherlock Holmes. He set up as a doctor at Southsea and it was while waiting for patients that he began to write. His growing success as an author enabled him to give up his practice and turn his attention to other subjects. His greatest achievement was, of course, his creation of Sherlock Holmes, who soon attained international status and constantly distracted him from his other work; at one time Conan Doyle killed him but was obliged by public protest to restore him to life. And in his creation of Dr Watson, Holmes's companion in adventure and chronicler, Conan Doyle produced not only a perfect foil for Holmes but also one of the most famous narrators in fiction.

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Title:

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Series:

Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection #5

Written by:

Arthur Conan Doyle; Stephen Fry 

Read by:

Stephen Fry 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

6 

Duration:

6 hours 36 minutes 

Published:

December 28 2017 

Available Date:

December 28 2017 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781489417459 

Genres:

Fiction; Detective 

Publisher:

ABC/Audible Audio 

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The fifth instalment of Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, narrated by Stephen Fry.

Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Arthur Conan Doyle's complete works – four novels and five collections of short stories – has been brought to life by Stephen Fry, a lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, in this The Definitive Collection. In addition, Stephen has written and narrated nine insightful, intimate and deeply personal introductions to each title. Part 5: The Hound of the Baskervilles Perhaps the most popular of all Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles combines the traditional detective tale with elements of horror. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse – and it is up to Holmes and Watson to solve the mystery of the legend.

'... it was reading the Sherlock Holmes stories as a boy that first turned me on to the power of writing and storytelling.'
Stephen Fry