The Best of Sherlock Holmes. Vol. 1win

A series of stories including n The Hound of the Baskervilles n 1902 of known British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle chiefly features Sherlock Holmes the brilliant detective Mary Foley an Irish mother bore Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle the third of ten siblings to Charles Altamont Doyle a talented English illustrator of Irish descent Although people now refer to as Conan Doyle despite the uncertain origin of this understood compound surname His baptism record in the registry of cathedral of Saint Mary in Edinburgh gives Arthur Ignatius Conan as his Christian name and simply Doyle as his surname It also names Michael Conan as his godfather At the age of nine years in 1868 parents sent Arthur Conan Doyle to Hodder place the Jesuit preparatory school at Stonyhurst He then went to Stonyhurst college and left in 1875 From 1876 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh to 1881 This study required that he provide periodic medical assistance in the towns of Aston now a district of Birmingham and Sheffield Arthur Conan Doyle studied and meanwhile began short He apparently first published in Chambers s Edinburgh Journal before 20 years of age in 1879 Following his graduation the steamship Mayumba employed him as a doctor during a voyage to the African west coast Arthur Conan Doyle completed his doctorate on the subject of tabes dorsalis in 1885 In 1885 he married Louisa Hawkins Doyle as Touie With this first wife Arthur Conan Doyle fathered two children Mary Louise Doyle born 28 January 1889 and Arthur Alleyne Kingsley Doyle born 15 November 1892 Arthur Conan Doyle first met Jean Elizabeth Leckie and fell in 1897 Due to his sense of loyalty he had maintained a purely platonic relationship with Jean while Louisa Hawkins Doyle his first wife lived Louisa Hawkins Doyle his wife suffered from tuberculosis and died on 4 July 1906 In the following year of 1907 he married Jean Elizabeth Leckie With this second wife he fathered three children Denis Percy Stewart Doyle born on 17 March 1909 Adrian Malcolm Doyle born on 19 November 1910 and Jean Lena Annette Doyle born on 21 December 1912 Arthur Alleyne Kingsley Doyle his son died on 28 October 1918 At Undershaw house located in Hindhead south of London Arthur Conan Doyle lived for a decade it served from 1924 as a hotel and restaurant for eight decades It then stood empty while conservationists and fans fight to preserve it People found Arthur Conan Doyle clutching his chest in the hall of Windlesham his house in Crowborough East Sussex He died of a heart attack He directed his last words You are wonderful toward his wife The epitaph on his gravestone in the churchyard at Minstead in the New Forest Hampshire reads STEEL TRUEBLADE STRAIGHTARTHUR CONAN DOYLEKNIGHTPATRIOT PHYSICIAN MAN OF LETTERSJean Elizabeth Leckie Doyle his widow died in London on 27 June 1940 This is an adaptation of The Red Headed League It s a recording of one of the Gielgud Richardson radio dramatizations of Sherlock Holmes stories The Best of Sherlock Holmes Vol 1first experience of audiobooks and seems like a happy landing no matter how many times do i encounter it it s the same astonishing polarizing storytelling of Arthur conan doyle awaits also here the fact that it was performed gave it a whole nother dimension I LOVE ITTTTTT 9781840329216