Name: Round The Red Lamp (annotated)
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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN: 9781522899457

Type

Physical Book

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

206

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm

Weight

0.28 kg.

ISBN13

9781522899457

Synopsis "Round The Red Lamp (annotated)"

Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life is a collection of medical and detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle published on 23 October 1894. The series was suggested to the author by Jerome K. Jerome then editor of The Idler. The stories in this collection "detail the facts and fancies of medical life." Contents: Behind the times -- His first operation -- A straggler of '15 -- The third generation -- A false start -- The curse of Eve -- Sweethearts -- A physiologist's wife -- The case of Lady Sannox -- A question of diplomacy -- A medical document -- Lot no. 249 -- The los amigos fiasco -- The doctors of Hoyland -- The surgeon talks. "A strikingly realistic and decidedly original contribution to modern literature."--Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Edinburgh, 1859 - Crowborough, United Kingdom, 1930) considered the master of detective literature was a writer and doctor born in Scotland, mainly known for having created the very famous character Sherlock Holmes, the most well-known detective of all times, cyclically adapted for TV and cinema

He studied at the universities of Stonyhurst and Edinburgh, where he graduated in medicine. Between 1882 and 1890, he worked as a doctor in Southsea, England.

To supplement his meager income, he wrote a mystery novel titled A Study in Scarlet, which became the first of sixty-eight stories featuring one of the most famous detectives in literature: Sherlock Holmes.

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