Speckled Band

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781035098675
  • Dimensions: 111 x 160mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Sep 2026
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Enjoy the very best of classic crime writing with three stories from Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of master detective Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr Watson.

In ‘The Speckled Band’, Holmes and Watson race against time to save a vulnerable young woman from the evil which lurks in her own home. A man’s generous but bizarre last request causes chaos and confusion inThe Three Garridebs’. In ‘The Dying Detective’, Sherlock Holmes shows once again that London’s most devious criminal minds are no match for his powers of reason.

This series of pocket-sized paperbacks celebrates the art of the short story and marks the 10th anniversary of Macmillan Collector’s Library. Each contains a curated selection of short stories from a literary giant: Katherine Mansfield, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Alice Dunbar Nelson, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Rabindranath Tagore.

Arthur Conan Doyle was born in 1859. He trained to be a doctor at Edinburgh University and set up a medical practice in Southsea. During quiet periods between patients, he began writing, producing historical novels such as Micah Clarke and tales of adventure including The Lost World, as well as four novels and fifty-six stories involving his most celebrated creations, Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson. Doyle was knighted in 1902. In later life he devoted much of his time to his belief in spiritualism, using his writing and celebrity as a means of funding activities in the field. He died in 1930.

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