Description: Booker Prize nominee Martin Booth provides Sherlock Holmes fans with another look at the life of famed mystery writer Arthur Conan Doyle. In his investigation, Booth probes into the possible link between Holmes's cocaine habit and Conan ...
Synopsis Booker Prize nominee Martin Booth provides Sherlock Holmes fans with another look at the life of famed mystery writer Arthur Conan Doyle. In his investigation, Booth probes into the possible link between Holmes's cocaine habit and Conan Doyle's medical partner, and examines Conan Doyle's various careers as a historical novelist, politician, and soldier, as well as his passion for "psychic religion."
Details
Publication Date:
2000-02-01
Size
Length:
371 pages
Height:
9.5 in
Width:
6.5 in
Thickness:
1.2 in
Weight:
25.6 oz
Publisher's Note A fascinating biography of the author of the Sherlock Holmes series reveals a man who sought to live up the Victorian ideal of manhood and who was loath to be remembered as the creator of Holmes.