He would even use Poe’s same technique of telling the story from the point of view of the loyal companion, with all but four of the sixty Sherlock Holmes stories published between 18 being narrated by Dr Watson. This was the story that inspired the young Arthur Conan Doyle to write a tale of a problem-solving detective all of his own. Written by American author Edgar Allen Poe and first published in 1841, it gave the world its first ever fictional detective (quite literally – the word ‘detective’ had not appeared in literature until Poe used it to describe his principal character). The ‘Southsea notebooks’ were sold at auction in 2004 for nearly a million pounds, and in this exhibition, Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Never Lived And Will Never Die, they are on public display for the first time.īeside this precious piece of Sherlock Holmes history is another handwritten manuscript, a story called The Murders in the Rue Morgue. The two going in search of a policeman’ – was scribbled down by Doyle at some point in 1885 at his house in Southsea, two years before the first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, was published. This first idea for a detective story – beginning with ‘the terrified woman rushing up to the cabman. A humble notebook, belonging to a 26-year-old Scottish physician named Arthur Conan Doyle, containing a plot synopsis for a tale involving one Mr Sherriford Homes of 221 Upper Baker Street. The most famous novel in Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes cycle, The Hound of the Baskervilles is a masterpiece of terror, suspense and mystery which has enthralled readers young and old since it was first published in 1902.įirst published in 1880, The Sign of the Four – the second Sherlock Holmes novel after A Study in Scarlet, published three years earlier – will sweep the readers away into a story of murders, betrayals, double-crossings and stolen treasures, and is an enduring testament to the storytelling genius of Arthur Conan Doyle.įirst published in 1887, when the author was only twenty-seven years old and still working as a medical practitioner in Portsmouth, this novel introduced to the reading public what would become the most famous pair of sleuths in the world – as well as a number of other iconic characters, such as Lestrade and the “Baker Street Irregulars” – and changed, in the process, the course of crime and detective fiction for ever.1897 portrait of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, painted by the illustrator of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Sidney Paget (Barbican Life)Īnd then, after this reminder at just how iconic and well-loved these characters have become over the years, and what a huge and successful industry Sherlock Holmes now represents, we go right back to the start, to where it all began. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Illustrated by David Mackintosh Three years have passed since Holmes and the evil mastermind Professor Moriarty fell, locked in combat, into the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland, and when Doctor Watson collides with an odd-looking old book collector in the street, little does he know that the world’s greatest detective is about to return…
With Sherlock Holmes’s reputation as the scourge of the criminal underworld preceding him, the ingenious detective, with the aid of Dr Watson, is confronted in these stories by some of his most fiendishly difficult cases yet. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – Illustrated by David Mackintosh This classic collection of Holmes tales includes many of the detective’s most-loved exploits: Holmes is confronted by a venomous snake in ‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’, mystified by a missing thumb in ‘The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb’ and beguiled by a beautiful opera singer in ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’, never once losing his famous cool. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Illustrated by David Mackintosh This collection includes six volumes of Sherlock Holmes mystery, murder and detective tales by Arthur Conan Doyle:
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