SHERLOCK HOLMES: Amazing and Extraordinary Facts

From his literary beginnings and the background of the Doyle family, his mentor and model for Holmes Dr Joseph Bell, the doctor who sets up practice that wants to write, here are the literary detectives that came before him. Read about A Study in Scarlet and how Sherlock Holmes was born in Beeton's Christmas Annual 1887, appearance, character and background, numbers and complications, the search for 221b, the follow up novels, the Strand Magazine, the first great illustrator Sidney Paget, big brother Mycroft, the long-suffering landlady Mrs Hudson, Scotland Yard, great quotations, plots, parodies, stage productions, scholarships, spiritualism, mystery stories and the enduring appeal - the life and work of Sherlock Holmes is celebrated in this collection of stories and trivia. With stories of John Watson to James Moriarty, bad habits, baffling powers of deduction, here is everything about the timeless detective celebrated in 144 very well illustrated pages.