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A Good Place To Start
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| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | 2 | |
| The Hound of Baskervilles | 1 |
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| The Lost World | 1 |
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Sherlock Holmes is best known for the shorter stories, rather than the novels. To start off I'd look for an anthology of his stories, preferably with the illustrations intact from their original publications in magazines. One book isbn number 0890090572 for example would do nicely and should be rather inexpensive.
If your budget isn't quite as bargain oriented as mine there are two volumes from the Barnes and Nobles Classics line up which have every Holmes story ever written by Doyle.
mkiker2089 May 12th, 2006 12:44 AM PST
If you are really on a budget you can also download many of his stories for free, there is no copyright so a simple search engine should point you in the right directions.
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (b. 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland – d. 7 July 1930) was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction.
Conan was originally a middle name but he used it as part of his surname in his later years.
Taken from wikipedia, a much more detailed bio can be found at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle
mkiker2089 May 12th, 2006 12:42 AM PST