A Study in Scarlet & The Hound of the Baskervilles

London: Reader's Digest, 1990 9780895772541. Hardback. Fine. No DW as published. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 301 pages illustrated with monochrome drawings. Also Includes Afterword by G. K. Chesterton. Reddish brown leatherette with gilded printing to the cover and the spine including Holmes cameo.. Gilded profile of traditional deersucker and pipe profile of the detective.. (See dust cover picture) Includes introductory pamphlet on the author and a general introduction to this issue. Synopsis: A Study in Scarlet is from Watson's viewpoint on when he first meets the eccentric and brilliant Holmes, and if you have not read "The Hound of the Baskervilles", now is the time to do so. Lovely copy of these two classics in one volume. Conan Doyle 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. He was a passionate advocate of many causes, ranging from divorce law reform and the Channel Tunnel to the issuing of inflatable life-jackets to sailors. He also campaigned to prove the innocence of individuals, and his work on the Edjalji case was instrumental in the introduction of the Court of Criminal Appeal. He was a volunteer physician in the Boer War and later in life became a convert to spiritualism. 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. .